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300 - Richard Wolff, Cornel West, & Norman Finkelstein: America Is in DENIAL | On Mamdani, Tucker, & Trump

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299 - Robert Pape: Trump Is Making Iran STRONGER—and America WEAKER

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298 - Rick Wilson: Trump Killed the Republican Party | On MAGA, Tucker Carlson, and 2028

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297 - Anne Applebaum: Trump Is Building an Autocracy | On Putin, Kushner, and America’s Future

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296 - Norman Finkelstein: Gaza SHATTERED Israel’s Story | October 7, Three Years Later

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295 - Richard Wolff: Trump’s America Is OVER

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294 - Michael Hudson: Iran, Oil, and Global Depression

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293 - Justin Wolfers: AI, Inflation, & The 2026 Elections

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292 - Jason Stanley: Breaking Down Trump’s Propaganda

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291 - Daron Acemoglu: AI Is Destroying American Democracy

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290 - Nicholas Humphrey: Why Does Beauty Exist?

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289 - Joe Henrich: How Culture Made Humans Weird

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288 - Richard Wrangham: How Humans Caught Fire

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287: Daniel Lieberman: Evolution and the Human Diet

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286: Adam Mockler: Trump, Newsom, and the Dark Future of American Politics

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285 - Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: The Destruction of Modern Nations

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284 - Steve Keen: The Economics of Global Warfare

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283 - Timothy Snyder: Donald Trump and the End of America

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282 - Richard Wolff: China, Russia, Iran, and World War III

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281 - Michael Hudson: How Debt Destroys Empires

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280 - David Albert & Jacob Barandes: Debating the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

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279 - Paul Davies: The Second Quantum Mechanics Revolution

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278 - Priyamvada Natarajan: The Mystery of Dark Matter

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277 - Tim Maudlin: What Is Philosophy?

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276 - Craig Callender: Lab-Grown Meat, De-Extinction, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect

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275 - Nate Soares: AI Will Kill Us All If We Don’t Change Course

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274 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, and the War in Iran

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273 - Richard Wolff: Iran, Israel, and the End of the American Empire

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272 - Michael Hudson: Iran, Israel, and World War III

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271 - Sara Imari Walker & Lee Cronin: Quantum Physics, Time, and the Origin of Life

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270 - Tim Maudlin & Jacob Barandes: The Indivisible Approach to Quantum Theory

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269 - Scott Aaronson: What Is Quantum Computing?

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268 - Jeffrey Pfeffer: Power, Influence, and the Psychology of Institutions

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267 - Lee Cronin: Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, and the Origin of Life

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266 - Annaka Harris: The Fundamentality of Consciousness

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265 - Jacob Barandes: A New Foundation for Quantum Mechanics

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264 - Lee Cronin: The Chemistry of Life

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263 - Sara Imari Walker: Astrobiology, Aliens, and the Origin of Life

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262 - Slavoj Žižek: Marxism, Quantum Mechanics, and Artificial Intelligence

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261 - Tyler Cowen: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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260 - Reid Hoffman: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

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259 - Kenneth Roth: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and How to Shame a Dictator

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258 - Richard Wolff: Donald Trump’s Tariff War Dissected

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257 - Carl Hart: The Neuroscience of Drugs and Their Role in the Good Life

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256 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on the Philosophy of Time

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255 - Michael Hudson: Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics

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254 - The Yale US-China Forum: Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, Yannis Varoufakis, Robin Visser, Yascha Mounk, Pei Wang, Daniel Mattingly

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253 - Peter Zeihan: China’s Fall, America’s Rise, and the End of the World Order

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252 - David Kipping: Alien Civilizations, Megastructures, Spacecraft, and Artificial Intelligence

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251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity

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250 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Israel, Gaza, and the Criminalization of Dissent

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249 - Chris Hedges: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Rise of American Fascism

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248 - Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire

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247 - Garry Nolan: Aliens | The Case They’re Already Here

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246 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on General Relativity

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245 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory and the Black Hole War

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244 - Norman Finkelstein: Donald J. Trump, Mossad Conspiracies in Israel, and the Dying Left

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243 - Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the Decline of the United States

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242 - Victor Davis Hanson: President Donald J. Trump and the Fate of the United States

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241 - Raphael Bousso: The Cold Truth About Quantum Mechanics

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240 - Peter Godfrey-Smith: Cuttlefish, Octopuses, and the Consciousness of Mysterious Minds

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239 - Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind

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238 - Barry Loewer: What Is The Philosophy of Science?

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237 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on Special Relativity

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236 - David Albert: A Masterclass on Time’s Arrow

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235 - Janna Levin: How to Survive a Black Hole

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234 - Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Karl Marx and the Fall of the West

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233 - Judith Butler: Trump & Harris | Israel & Palestine | Sex & Gender

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232 - Niall Ferguson: Trump v. Harris | Israel v. Hamas | Russia v. Ukraine

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231 - Victor Davis Hanson: The Final Case for Donald J. Trump

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230 - Richard Wolff: The Final Case Against Donald J. Trump

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229 - Rashid Khalidi: October 7th Revisited | Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, & The Nakba

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228 - Norman Finkelstein: October 7th Revisited | Israel, Palestine, Hezbollah, & The End of Gaza

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227 - David Eagleman: Synesthesia, Brain Plasticity, AI, and Conspiracy Theories

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226 - David Builes: The Metaphysics of Time and Consciousness

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225 - Alexander Nehamas: Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will to Power

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224 - Peter Woit: String Theory and the Crisis in Physics

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223 - Michael Graziano: Consciousness, Animal Minds, and the Neuroscience of Suffering

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222 - Richard Wolff: Israel, Ukraine, China, and the End of the American Empire

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221 - David Albert: The Measurement Problem of Quantum Mechanics

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220 - Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse, and the End of Civilization

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Ask Me Anything | August 2024

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219 - Joscha Bach: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse

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218 - Norman Finkelstein: Genocide in Israel and Palestine

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217 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory, Fine-Tuning, and the Physics of the Multiverse

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216 - Raphael Bousso: The Black Hole Paradox, Quantum Gravity, and the Holographic Principle

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215 - Anna Lembke: On Philosophy and Psychiatry

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Ask Me Anything | July 2024

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214 - Joyce Carol Oates: On Philosophy and Literature

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213 - Slavoj Žižek: God, Marxism, Philosophy, and Quantum Mechanics

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212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and Collective Behavior

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211 - Jay Chandrasekhar: Comedy, Creative Integrity, Super Troopers, & Jackass

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210 - David Albert & Tim Maudlin: A Discussion of Niels Bohr, Measurement, & Quantum Mechanics

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209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation

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208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III

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207 - Sean Carroll: Quanta, Fields, and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics

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206 - Slavoj Žižek & Lee Smolin: Marxism Meets Quantum Physics

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205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia

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204 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism and the Mystery of Consciousness

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203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism