All Episodes
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning — 218 episodes
Nikolai Yakovenko: the wages of the Hugging Face hack
Werner Zagrebbi: Adventures in Forbidden Data
Collin Hogue-Spears: How AI Works in China
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
Brianna Wu: the case for liberalism
Dan Hess: the end of Asians and humanity going to the retirement home
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
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
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
Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later
Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
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
Dan Hess: the fertility collapse
Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek
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
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
Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis
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
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
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
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
John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
Colin Wright: In the trenches of the gender wars
Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.
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
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette's dynamic duo
Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass
James Miller: the end of world as we know it
Rob Henderson: foster-kid to Ivy League graduate
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
Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution
Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US
Introducing GenRAIT: when technology drives science
Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
Brent Roberts: let's talk about personality
Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides's Trap
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
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
Steinn Sigurðsson: Black Holes, causality and exoplanets
Gregory Clark: what has genetics to do with social status?
John Logsdon: what has genomics done for evolution?
Christopher Rufo - America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.
IBW Episode #3: The Israel-Palestine conflict
Richard Hanania: The Origins of Woke - Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Sundar Iyer & Sudha Jagannathan: the accused speaks the truth about caste and the "Cisco Case"
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?
Inez Stepman: fixing higher education
Cory Clark: adversarial collaborations in science
Alex S. Young and James J. Lee: quantitative genetics in 2023
Diana Fleischman: evolution, sex and eugenics
Nicola Buskirk: old books for a new generation
Hannah Frankman: unlearning the lessons of the past
Lyman Stone: God is dead, long live the Lord!
IBW Episode #2: Muslims vs. LGBTQIA+
Samuel McIlhagga: the UK as a zombie nation
Renu Mukherjee: Affirmative Action's End
Elizabeth Jones: ancient DNA as "celebrity science"
Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
Samo Burja: China's future, Russia's present and archaeology's past
Timothy B. Lee: don't rage against the machine
The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
The modern human conquest of earth
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
Charles Fain Lehman: homicide, death in the charts
The prehistoric genetic roots of the Chinese
Madagascar: where Asia and Africa met
Jonathan Anomaly: To Make a Better World
Bryan Caplan: Open minds and Open borders
John Hawks: A Year in Paleoanthropology
Shadi Hamid: Democracy in America and Araby
Nikolai Yakovenko: GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines
Joshua Lipson, Aric Lomes and Leo Cooper: the medieval origins of the Ashkenazim
Michael Bonner: Iran's Sassanid Empire
Eurocentrism, the West, and white supremacy
Garett Jones: The Culture Transplant - How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
Cody Moser: Universal Baby Talk
Nikolai Yakovenko: a Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects
Razib Khan: Anatolia over 10,000 years
Erik Hoel: neuroscience is dead, long live neuroscience!
Jonathan Haidt: Social media kills the internet utopia
Religion in China, India and the West
Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
Tania Reynolds: let's talk about intrasexual competition
Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
Razib Khan: the "southern arc" and Indo-European origins
Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
Jason Walters: from Salafism to Sartre
Ed West: Albion past and future