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Uncertain Things — 114 episodes

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1

Guillotine Chic (w/ Mike Pesca)

2

Doing the World a Favor in Iran (w/ Eli Lake)

3

Canada's Anti-Zionism Fetish (w/ Jesse Brown)

4

Losing the Real War (w/ Dr. Einat Wilf)

5

America, the Fundamentalist (w/ David French)

6

Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Abundance, Anti-Chill (w/ Ben Dreyfuss)

7

In Defense of Exclusion (w/ James Lindsay)

8

Anti-Zionism, Explained (w/ Adam Louis-Klein)

9

ICE, Klein, Coates (w/ Nancy Rommelmann)

10

When Speech Is Violence, Etc. (w/ Matt Welch)

11

The Lost Pleasures of Discomfort (w/ Christine Rosen)

12

One Minute to Paradise (w/ Jonah Goldberg)

13

Thou Shalt Not Be a Socialist (Ruth Wisse)

14

Lower Expectations of Humanity (Yuval Levin)

15

War Is Hell (Dan Senor)

16

The Law Is How We Deal With Our Mistakes (Alan Dershowitz)

17

The Mood Music of Anti-Racism (Coleman Hughes)

18

The Hope for Gaza (w/ Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib)

19

The Enemies of Free Speech (w/ Greg Lukianoff & Nadine Strossen)

20

Vibes of Nihilism (w/ Mike Pesca)

21

When My Team Became an Online Mob (w/ Brianna Wu)

22

How the Modern World Self-Destructs (w/ Tomer Persico)

23

Significant Sans Sex (w/ Rhaina Cohen)

24

From Jesus Christ to the New York Times (w/ Andy Mills)

25

The Decapitation of Hezbollah and the Fall of Rome (w/ Eli Lake)

26

It's Over (w/ Caitlin Flanagan)

27

The Agony of Abundance (w/ Nick Gillespie)

28

Our Friend Attended a Trump Rally — And Witnessed History

29

Progressives Are Silly (w/ Nellie Bowles)

30

The Indoctrination of Elite Education (w/ Bill Deresiewicz)

31

Down the Saddam Rabbit Hole (w/ Steve Coll)

32

Three Drunk Jews Refuting Jonathan Glazer (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon & Eli Lake)

33

What the Left Gets Wrong About Black History (w/ Charles Love & Wilfred Reilly)

34

Zionism and the Refugee Machine (w/ Dr. Einat Wilf)

35

What Iran Wants (w/ Arash Azizi)

36

Diaspora Palestinian to Hamas Apologists: Debate Me, Bro (w/ John Aziz)

37

Disgusting 'Journalists' (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

38

How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Butchery of Jews (w/ Eli Lake)

39

Liberals Against Identity, Round 2 (w/ Yascha Mounk)

40

The Identity Infection, Round 1 (w/ Yascha Mounk)

41

Big Tech VS Democracy (w/ Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, & Jeremy Weinstein)

42

The Pros and Cons of 'Queer' (w/ Jamie Kirchick)

43

A Huge Outpouring of Human Misery (w/ Peter Turchin)

44

The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)

45

Welcome to the Content Age (w/ William Deresiewicz)

46

San Francisco Burning (w/ Nellie Bowles)

47

Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)

48

Be My Guru (w/ Helen Lewis)

49

The City and the Citadel (w/ Michael Kimmelman)

50

Fragments of Meaning

51

What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

52

The Art of Being Offended (w/ Eli Lake)

53

Partisan Poison (w/ Andrew Heaton)

54

The Coming Collapse (w/ Peter Turchin)

55

How Progressives Ruin Cities (w/ Vishaan Chakrabarti)

56

Don't Blame Israel on the Jews (w/ Walter Russell Mead)

57

Panic Porn and Trauma Creep (w/ Christine Rosen)

58

The Right’s Identity Crisis (w/ Matt Continetti)

59

The Veneer of Legitimacy

60

America, The Lonely (w/ David French)

61

Between Comedy and Pissing People Off (w/ Andrew Heaton)

62

You Are Not Your Ideas (w/ Angel Eduardo)

63

Diversity Isn’t Destiny (w/ Yascha Mounk)

64

NOT CANCELED (w/ Meghan Daum)

65

What History Reveals — and Hides (w/ Jody Avirgan, Kellie Carter Jackson, and Nicole Hemmer)

66

The Free Speech Recession (w/ Jacob Mchangama)

67

Surrender to the Illusion (w/ Daniel Roy)

68

How Much Morality Is Too Much? (w/ Mark Lilla)

69

America's Sadness Problem (w/ Helen Russell)

70

Hooked on Dead Jews (w/ Dara Horn)

71

The Media's Psychotic Break (w/ Matt Taibbi)

72

Chillin' With the Philosophers (w/ Anthony Gottlieb)

73

Escaping the Content Machine (w/ Lindsay Ellis)

74

We're Addicted to Destruction (w/ Nancy Rommelmann)

75

Genes, Germs, & Justice (w/ Nicholas Christakis)

76

Escaping the Gospel of Guilt (w/ Jacob Siegel)

77

F*ck Zeus (w/ Tomer Persico)

78

EXTRA: The Journey to Jaded (w/ Adaam and Vanessa)

79

Why Hollywood Sucks (w/ Rob Long)

80

The Reality Rift (w/ Rep. Peter Meijer)

81

Can the Supreme Court Survive the Culture War? (w/ Sarah Isgur)

82

Speak No Evil, See No Cancel Culture (Freestyle Theodicy)

83

Big Tech Panic (w/ Shoshana Weissmann)

84

The Apocalypse We Deserve (w/ Niall Ferguson)

85

Saving Capitalism From Itself (w/ Rebecca Henderson)

86

Our Temples of Tragedy (w/ Justin Davidson)

87

Blackness and the Other Side of Trauma (w/ Misha Thomas)

88

Welcome to Cold War II (w/ Eyck Freymann)

89

Marxism vs. The Media (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

90

What We Lose When We Break Free (w/ Yuval Levin)

91

Sex, Feminism, and the Madding Crowd (w/ Caitlin Flanagan)

92

A Thousand Narratives: America Rewrites Its History (w/ Moshe Sluhovsky)

93

Finding The Angels of Capitalism (w/ Dr. Dawn Carpenter)

94

The CIA Analyst Who Saw It Coming (w/ Martin Gurri)

95

The Post-Trump Tipping Point (w/ Nadav Eyal)

96

Perestroika Begins at Home (w/ Matt Welch)

97

America, Inc. (w/ Adam Winkler)

98

On Honor and Justice (w/ Tamler Sommers)

99

How to Steal Wealth From Workers — With the Best of Intentions (w/ Zohar Goshen)

100

Post-Colonial Absurdities, Post-Caste Delusions (w/ Yashica Dutt)

101

Why Anti-Racism Trainings Fail (w/ Chloé Valdary)

102

Why Empathy's Bad — And Suffering Hurts So Good (w/ Paul Bloom)

103

Art: WTF Happened? (w/ Ken Goshen)

104

Chomsky, Katy Perry, and the Algorithm God (w/ Adam Neely)

105

Time to Talk About Secession? (w/ David French)

106

Biased Journos, Young Radicals, and Pre-Election Spooks (w/ Robby Soave)

107

The Liberal Who Voted for Trump (w/ Misha Thomas)

108

You Can Be a Dictator, Too (w/ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith)

109

The Revolt Is Justified (w/ Nadav Eyal)

110

Why Everything Is a Culture War Thing (w/ Katie Herzog)

111

Wake Up, Change the Channel (w/ Michael Smerconish)

112

'I'm a Liberal Who Lost His Faith' (w/ Tom Holland)

113

P.S. Getting Drunk for Jesus (Persico Revisited)

114

How The Image of God Made Us All Atheists (w/ Tomer Persico)