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Episode 54: Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Greene is the author of many best-selling books, including "The Laws of Human Nature," "Mastery," "The Art of Seduction," "The 33 Strategies of...
Episode 53: Konstantin Kisin - An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Konstantin Kisin is a stand-up comedian, the co-host of the YouTube show and podcast "TRIGGERnometry," and is the author of the forthcoming book, "An ...
Episode 52: Jeffrey Guss - How to Change Your Mind
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Guss is a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, a researcher, and was the Co-principal Investigator and Director of Psychedelic Therapy Training fo...
Episode 51: Jon Birger - Modern Dating
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Birger is a journalist and is the author of "Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game." During our conversation, Jon talks about th...
Episode 50: Jonathan Rauch - A Defense of Truth
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rauch is a journalist, an essayist for "The Atlantic" magazine, and the author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." During...
Episode 49: Richard Rhodes - The Threat of Nuclear Weapons
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Rhodes is a historian, a journalist, and is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." During our conversation,...
Episode 48: Joseph Goldstein - Understanding Your Mind
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Goldstein is an author, the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and is one of the most influential and important figures...
Episode 47: Helen Fisher - The Science of Love
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Fisher is an anthropologist, a professor, an author, and one of the world's experts on the science of love. During our conversation, Helen talks...
Episode 46: Daniel Schacter - Human Memory
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Schacter is a professor of psychology at Harvard University who specializes in memory and amnesia. During our conversation, Daniel talks about ...
Episode 45: Sarah Haider - Leaving Islam
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Haider is an activist, an immigrant, an essayist, and the co-founder of Ex-Muslims Of North America. During our conversation, Sarah talks about ...
Episode 44: Ian O'Connor - Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian O'Connor is a journalist, a sports columnist for "The New York Post," and the author of the new book, "Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzew...
Episode 43: Ilya Ponomarev - Fighting For Ukraine
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ilya Ponomarev is an entrepreneur, a former member of the Russian duma, a political adversary of Vladimir Putin, a friend of Ukrainian President Zelen...
Episode 42: Walter "Robby" Robinson - Breaking The Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Story
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Robinson is an investigative journalist, an editor-at-large at "The Boston Globe," and is the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor of Journali...
Episode 41: Ilya Shapiro - American Liberty, American Civility
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ilya Shapiro is a legal scholar, an essayist, and an author who holds degrees from Princeton, The London School of Economics, and The University of Ch...
Episode 40: Wade Davis - Knowledge From Exploration
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wade Davis is an author, an ethnobiologist, and a cultural anthropologist. He was an explorer-in-residence at The National Geographic Society from 200...
Episode 39: Glenn Loury - Living The American Dream
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Loury is an economist, an essayist, and is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University....
Episode 38: Maud Maron - Modern McCarthyism
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maud Maron is a lawyer, a mother of four, and a Congressional Candidate for New York's 12th District. During our conversation, Maud talks about her ca...
Episode 37: Wilfred Reilly - American Taboos
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wilfred Reilly is a professor and the author of "Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About." During our conversation, Wilfred talks about his early life an...
Episode 36: David Daley - Gerrymandering's Threat To U.S. Democracy
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Daley is a journalist, the former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, and the author of "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count." During our conversat...
Episode 35: Anna Lembke - Modern Addictions
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and the author of "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in ...
Episode 34: Peter Verstrate - The Cultured Meat Revolution
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Verstrate is a businessman and the co-founder of Mosa Meat. During our conversation, Peter talks about Mosa Meat's technical breakthrough in mak...
Episode 33: Ronan Levy - Psychedelics Going Mainstream
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ronan Levy is a lawyer, an entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Field Trip Health. During our conversation, Ronan talks about his journey into the psyc...
Episode 32: Paul Fletcher - Psychosis in Society
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Fletcher is a doctor, a researcher, and the Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience at Cambridge University. During our conversation, Paul...
Episode 31: John McWhorter - Woke Racism
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, an essayist for "The New York Times," and the author of "Woke Racism." During our co...
Episode 30: Robert Glover - No More Mr. Nice Guy
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Glover is a speaker, a men's coach, and the author of the best-selling book "No More Mr. Nice Guy." During our conversation, Robert talks about...
Episode 29: Danielle Crittenden - Feminism Today
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Crittenden is an author, a mother of three, and the host of "The Femsplainers Podcast." During our conversation, Danielle talks about her boo...
Episode 28: James Hollis - Living an Examined Life
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James Hollis is an author, a psychoanalyst, and one of the world's most prolific Jungian thinkers. During our conversation, Jim talks about his life, ...
Episode 27: Donald G. McNeil, Jr. - Reporting COVID-19
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Donald G. McNeil, Jr. is an author, a journalist, and was one of the earliest and leading New York times science reporters to alert the world about th...
Episode 26: Audrey Brumback - Understanding Autism
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Audrey Brumback is a physician, a scientist, and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Texas. During our conversation, Audrey talks...
Episode 25: Omer Kanat - The Uyghur Genocide
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Omer Kanat is the Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and is the Executive Committee Chairman of the World Uyghur Congress. During our convers...
Episode 24: Scott Shepherd - Leaving the Ku Klux Klan
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Shepherd is a speaker, consultant, and a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. During our conversation, Scott talks about his upbringing, the...
Episode 23: Steve Harrigan - Honoring the Artist Within
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Harrigan is a screenwriter, a journalist, and a writer for Texas Monthly. His books include "The Gates of the Alamo" and "Big Wonderful Thing: A...
Episode 22: Cesare Fracassi - Cryptocurrency
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cesare Fracassi is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Director of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Texas - McCombs School of Busi...
Episode 21: Helen Joyce - Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Joyce is a journalist at "The Economist" and is the author of the book "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality." During our conversation, Helen disc...
Episode 20: Carole Hooven - T: The Story of Testosterone
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carole Hooven is a scientist, a professor, an educator, and she co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology a...
Episode 19: Jesse Singal - Woke Culture
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Singal is a journalist and author, and has written for The New York Times and New York Magazine. During our conversation, Jesse talks about free...
Episode 18 - Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Jorgenson is the author of "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant." During our conversation, Eric talks about the creation of the book, the vacuum that'...
Episode 17: Jerry Rosenbaum - Psychedelics & The Brain
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Rosenbaum is a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on mood and anxiety disorders, and the director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Psych...
Episode 16: David Blankenhorn - Braver Angels
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Blankenhorn is the co-founder and president of Braver Angels. During our conversation, David talks about why Braver Angels exists, tribalism and...
Episode 15: Ben Westhoff - Fentanyl in America
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Westhoff is an investigative journalist and author. In 2019, he published "Fentanyl, Inc.", the definitive story of the Fentanyl drug trade and it...
Episode 14: Peter Neufeld - The Innocence Project
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Neufeld is a civil rights lawyer and the co-founder of the Innocence Project. During over conversation, Peter talks about how and why he and Bar...
Episode 13: Avi Loeb - 'Oumuamua, UFOs, and Extraterrestrial Life
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Avi Loeb is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Harvard University. During our conversation, Avi talks about his interest in science, humanity'...
Episode 12: Bruce Poulter - MDMA for PTSD
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Poulter is an MDMA therapist, trainer, and clinical supervisor. During our conversation, Bruce talks about his interest in MDMA as a therapy, hi...
Episode 11: Stephen Fried - Benjamin Rush & A Life In Journalism
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Fried is an author and investigative journalist. During our conversation, Stephen talks about his life and work in Philadelphia, and his most ...
Episode 10: Dan Barker - A Preacher's Journey From Religion
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Barker is a former evangelical Christian preacher, current co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and co-founder of The Clergy Proj...
Episode 09: Nancy Segal - Identical Twins and Human Nature
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Segal is a behavioral geneticist, evolutionary psychologist, and one of the nation's preeminent experts on twin studies. During our conversation...
Episode 08: Daryl Davis - Befriending the Ku Klux Klan
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daryl Davis is an African-American musician, author, and activist. Throughout his life, he has engaged with and befriended members of the Ku Klux Klan...
Episode 07: H.W. Brands - A History of the American West
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
H.W. Brands is a professor at UT-Austin, a historian, an author of more than 30 books, and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. During our conv...
Episode 06: Jonathan Zimmerman - The Importance of Free Speech
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Zimmeramn is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. During our conversation, Jonathan talks about his time in...
Episode 05: Jeremi Suri - History and reducing American tribalism
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at UT-Austin. During our conversation, Jeremi talks about his inter...
Episode 04: Anthony Charles Graves - Innocence Found
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Charles Graves is an exonerated death row inmate. In his 20's, he was arrested, charged with, and wrongfully convicted of the murder of a fami...
Episode 03: David Buss - Evolutionary Psychology
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Buss is a professor at the University of Texas - Austin. During our conversation, David talks about the creation of the field of evolutionary ps...
Episode 02: Alex Dominguez - Psilocybin for PTSD
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Dominguez is a member of the Texas House of Representatives. During our conversation, Alex talks about his political career, his knowledge of psy...
Episode 01: Mike Ware - The Innocence Project of Texas
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Ware is the Executive Director of the Innocence Project of Texas. During our conversation, Mike talks about his career in the law, his work withi...