Konstantin Kisin

The thing is, the media environment is now so, so different.

Social media, podcasting, the plurality of voices as such.

And also, you know, as I said, this episode will go out some time ago, but we just had a story in the UK, and who knows if the BBC still exists by the time this conversation's aired, because, I mean, we now know that large swathes of the media, and I say this as no fanboy of President Trump,

You know, I think he's great on some things and not so great on other things, but they lied so much about him.

They literally did election interference while accusing him of election interference that it's just hard for people, I think, to trust the media they don't already agree with, you know?

Well, it's been great having you on.

Thank you so much for talking to us.

Before we head over to our Substack, where our audience get to ask you their questions, what's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be?

All right, Mark, thanks so much for joining us.

Head on over to triggerpod.co.uk where you get to ask Mark your questions.

To what extent did Nixon and Kissinger sabotage the Democrats' peace negotiations ahead of the 68th election?

And to what extent does Mark think they should be held as culpable for tens of thousands of potentially unnecessary deaths in the years that followed?

You basically did something that I've been trying to explain for a very long time, the biological reasons for why communism worked.

And you give a fascinating example of voluntary communism, which was the kibbutz system in Israel.

Nicholas Wade, welcome to Trigonometry.

It's so good to have you on.

Francis and I picked up your book a few days ago.

You know, to be honest, we have to read a lot of books because we interview a lot of people, so it can sometimes feel like a chore, but the moment we opened your book, we were like, whoa, give me more of this, because it was so fascinating.

You talk, it's called The Origin of Politics, and it's about evolution and how evolution

evolutionary history shapes the way we do everything, actually, in a way that we've totally forgotten in our society now.