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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning — 182 episodes
Maxwell Meyer: magazines in a digital age
Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela)
Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy
Jason Scharf: Austin's present and future as Texas' tech hub
Destiny (Steven Bonnell II): a liberal in the age of radical progressives and MAGA
Joseph Robertson: bringing Reform UK to the top of British politics
Zineb Riboua: Rising Tides of the Third World
Dan Hess: the end of Asians and humanity going to the retirement home
Brianna Wu: the case for liberalism
Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou: the last Hellenes and the children of the Yamnaya
Nikolai Yakovenko: 4 years into the age of AI
Chris Rufo: the California project
Gregory Cochran: 15 years after The 10,000 Year Explosion
Russ Greene: the rise of Total Boomer Luxury Communism
10,000 years of selection (in Western Eurasia)
Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman
Megan McArdle: the follies of populism, impending fiscal crisis, and the whirlwind of AI
Monologue: Race - genetics, history and sociology
Monologue: Out-of-Africa is not dead but hybridization lives
Chris Bradley: better science for longevity
Chris Masterjohn: COVID-19 to mitochondrial health, communicating and applying "the science"
Mike White: academia and genomics in the 21st century
Aaron Renn: Heartland urbanism and leaving Left Behind behind
Daniel Tabin: ancient DNA, the good, bad and ugly
Joe Henrich and Cosimo Posth: the weirdest people in the world and the genetics of Ice Age Europe
Peter Nimitz: the story of the Slavs
Jesse Arm: Gen Z Republicans and their views
Davide Piffer: how Europeans became white
Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious
Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy
Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now
Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity
Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times
Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age
Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age
Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism
John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!
Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future
Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics
Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent
Ed West: visitor from a dying empire
Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics
Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror
Nate Soares: we are doomed (probably)
Alexander Cortes: broscience, health science and fertility
Kat Rosenfield: after the vibe shift
Eric Kaufmann: a cultural revolution in winter
Ryan P. Williams: the Claremont Institute standing athwart history
Chad Orzel: the state of physics and academia in 2025
Jonathan Anomaly and James Lee: is eugenics in our future?
Jason Richwine: immigration moratorium now
Alex Nowrasteh: an immigration libertarian in Trump's America
John Hawks: varieties of humankind all mixed-up
Noah Millman: from finance to the culture industry
Cesar Fortes-Lima: the Fulani out of the Green Sahara
Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking
Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer
David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia's antipodes
Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web
Nathan Cofnas: Judaism's group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended
Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response
David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later
Ethan Strauss: sports and the end of the culture wars
Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion
Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web
Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution
Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania
Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans
Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster
John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education
Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die
Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green Sahara
Andrew Song: cooling the planet with technology
Zineb Riboua: realism in foreign policy in 2025
Mark Lutter: charter cities and the urban future
Graeme Wood: Germany's turn to the right
Leighton Woodhouse: against the rise of the anti-woke cancel culture and MAGA cultural hegemony
Kevin Klatt: Nutrition, health, MAHA and GLP-1
Charles Murray: 50 years on the public scene
Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a post-national Europe
Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars
Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek
Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race and sports
Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America
Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen
Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later
Dan Hess: the fertility collapse
John Hawks: 2024 in Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits
David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024
In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware
Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial
Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here
Yascha Mounk: American democracy in 2024
Anatoly Karlin: Russian nationalism to American globalism
The Horse: Man's Most Useful Companion
Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis
Wilfred Reilly: confronting historical myths propagated in schools
Leighton Woodhouse: chaos and corruption in urban America
Lyman Stone: a demographer against the birth dearth
Peachy Keenan: cosmopolitan radical traditionalist
Jesse Singal: after the replication crisis and into the youth gender medicine debate
Sam Hammond: I for one welcome our A.I. overlords
14,000 years of natural selection
Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC
Misha Saul: the Antipodean Anglosphere
Rachel Haywire: the edge of the avant-garde
Halie May: the democratization of genomics
Inez Stepman: Silicon Valley's post-human world
Christina Buttons: navigating the gender wars
Sarah Haider: activist to podcaster and public intellectual
Eliah Overbey: the birth of bioastronautics
Aria Babu: pro-natalism in the shadow of empire
Louise Perry: overcrowded Britain and the ennui of a post-imperial nation
Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs
Jonathan Keeperman: becoming Lomez
Ryan Burge: Losing Our Religion
Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge
Akshar Patel: Modi's India in the 21st century
Jeremy Carl: The Unprotected Class - How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.
John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
Colin Wright: in the trenches of the gender wars
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024
Rob Henderson: foster-kid to Ivy League graduate
Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette's dynamic duo
James Miller: the end of world as we know it
Wilfred Reilly: a social scientist in the culture wars
Erich Schwarz: in the beginning was the worm (C. elegans)
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball's Biggest Questions
Alexander: the psychology of dating
David Lightbringer: mythopoetic interpretations
Cesar Fortes-Lima: the three thousand-year odyssey of the Bantu
Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US
Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution
Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
Brent Roberts: let's talk about personality
Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides's Trap
Curtis Yarvin: reflections on a life of poetry
Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone - The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Peter Nimitz: the end of the first civilizations 4,300 years ago
IBW Episode #3: The Israel-Palestine conflict
Gregory Clark: what has genetics to do with social status?
Sundar Iyer & Sudha Jagannathan: the accused speaks the truth about caste and the "Cisco Case"
John Logsdon: what has genomics done for evolution?
Christopher Rufo - America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.
Richard Hanania: The Origins of Woke - Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
The Indian caste system: origin, impact and future
David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya
Erik Hoel: The World Behind the World
Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default?
Cory Clark: adversarial collaborations in science
Alex S. Young and James J. Lee: quantitative genetics in 2023
Renu Mukherjee: affirmative action's end
Russia invades Ukraine and ends globalization?
Rav Arora: psychedelics and spirituality
David Sloan Wilson and Charles C. Mann on E. O. Wilson's legacy
Trent Colbert: standing athwart the mob
Patrick Wyman: Luther, Columbus and Gutenberg
Dragon Man ascending: two geneticists discuss the latest paleoanthropological discoveries
Richard Hanania: Israel, "wokeness" is just civil rights, and the Chinese century
Texpocalypse Now: a postmortem
American Civil War? Richard Hanania thinks it unlikely
Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 6, Chris Stringer: the state of paleoanthropology in the 2010's
Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 5, Suhag Shukla: Hindus in America
Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 4, Alexander G. Ioannidis: Native American ancestry in pre-Columbian Polynesia
Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 3, Thomas Chatterton Williams: beyond black and white
Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 2, Vagheesh Narasimhan: Indian genetic history
Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 1, Shadi Hamid