Nine Questions with Eric Oliver
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Problem with Parties - Sam Rosenfeld and Daniel Schlozman
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Schlozman is the Joseph and Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the bo...
Divided America - Jamie Druckman
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James N. Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern Univers...
The Election - John Sides
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Sides is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of many books on campaigns and cofounder of ...
The Extinction of Experience - Christine Rosen
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and cu...
God and Money - Tom Levinson
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Levinson is one of the most multifaceted people we know. A former lawyer and divinity student, he is the author of ALL THAT’S HOLY: A Young Gu...
Secular Spirituality - Brittney Hartley
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brittney Hartley is an author, secular spiritual counselor, and self described Nihilism survivor. She was raised in a strong Mormon community in Ida...
The Living Dying Project - Dale Borglum
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of A Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly ...
The Foreign Agent - Sam Patten
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Patten is a political consultant who spent the first half of his career promoting democracy and advising political campaigns in Asia, Africa, and ...
The Neuroscience of Well Being - Camilla Nord
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Camilla Nord is fellow and director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at Cambridge University. Her research tries to bridge the gap ...
Emotions, Negotiation, and Comedy - Dr. Hillary Elfenbein
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hillary Anger Elfenbein has been a business school professor at the Olin School of Washington University in St. Louis since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. ...
The Mysteries of Consciousness - Anil Seth
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Con...
Mindful Politics - Steve Israel & Tim Ryan
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill – unindicted and undefeated – to pursue a career as a writer. He heads the non-partisan Cornell ...
What's the Self? - Eric Oliver
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Oliver is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He studies American politics, public opinion, political psychology, lo...
Authentic Yoga - Amy Owen
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Owen is a birth doula, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor in Chicago. She started her career in the 1980s as a fashion model and began prac...
The Globetrotter - Tom Turcich
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Turcich is a writer, motivational speaker, and adventurer. After the early death of a close friend, he decided to walk around the entire globe. ...
The Secrets Behind Gestures - Susan Goldin-Meadow
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Rumi Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Human Development, and the Committee on Ed...
On Dreams and Time - Alan Lightman
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Lightman is a professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition to publishing numerous scientific papers in...
The Bioengineer - Dr. Rama Ranganathan
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rama Ranganathan, M.D. Ph.D. is a Joseph Regenstein Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. Ra...
The Headless Philosopher - Richard Lang
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Lang is Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, the UK charity set up in 1996 to help share the Headless Way as widely as possible in the world. H...
The Premonitionist - Stephanie Arnold
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Arnold is an American producer and author. In 2013, she was clinically dead for 37 seconds after suffering an amniotic fluid embolism immedi...
The Psychedelic Psychologist - Harriet De Wit
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet De Wit is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, her research investigates the ...
The Self-Help Skeptic - Oliver Burkeman
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardia...
Season Two - Intro
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we get to know a whole new round of amazing guests for, what is to be, an exciting Season Two of Nine Questions with Eric Oliver. Support ...
The Primatologist - Dr. Richard Wrangham
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 198...
The Historian of Ecstasy - Rachel Nuwer
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports about science, travel, food and adventure for the New York Times, National Geographi...
The Season Finale
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea and Eric recap season one’s highlights and what season two might have in store.Support the show
The Skeptical Provocateur - Chris Kavanagh
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Kavanagh is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford in the Centre for Social Cohesion at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and an A...
The Theologian - Carl Trueman
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theolog...
The Cosmologist - Dan Hooper
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Hooper is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a...
The Audiovoyant - Therese Rowley
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Therese Rowley is an educator, business consultant, and spiritual medium. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern and a PhD in organi...
The Spiritual Entrepreneur - Hitendra Wadhwa
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School and Founder of the Mentora Institute, Hitendra has coached dozens of Fortune 100 C-suite executiv...
Here and Not Here - Laurie Anderson
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia p...
The Interpreter of Shadows - Andrew Solomon
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Solomon, PhD is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBTQ rights, ...
The Anxious Sage - Amanda Stern
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Stern is the author of The Long Haul and eleven books for children written under the pseudonyms AJ Stern and Fiona Rosenbloom. In 2003, she fou...
The Soul Mapper - Jennifer Freed
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Freed PhD is the best selling author of Use Your Planets Wisely and a renowned psychological astrologer and social and emotional education tr...
The Brilliant Bumbler - Nicholas Epley
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science, and Director of the Center for Decision Research, a...
The Sports Agent - Mike Levine
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Levine, known by his nickname Vino, is an American sports agent and executive known for being co-head of CAA Sports, the sports division of Creat...
The Bravest Person I Know - Jackie Acho
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie is President of The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm. Prior to founding The Acho Group in 2005, she was a Partner of McKin...
The Love Shaman - Jack Zimmerman
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Zimmerman holds a BA, MA and PhD from Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He is the co-a...
The Death Doula - Jane Dowling
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Dowling is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience, including working with pediatric and adult emergency care, post-trauma reconstruc...
The Buddhist Monk - Nicholas Vreeland
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Vreeland is a photographer, Buddhist monk and abbot of the Rato Dratsang monastery in India. He was born to American parents and his grandm...
The Virtuoso - Yuan-Qing Yu
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yuan-Qing Yu is assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. An international award-winning violinist, she leads an active life as a sol...
The Psychedelic Philosopher - Chris Bache
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Bache is a philosopher, author, and psychedelic explorer. He received a B.A. from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from Brown University and taught for ...
The Classical Poet - Rosanna Warren
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rosanna Warren is a poet, biographer, and classics scholar. Since 2012 she has been the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Comm...
The Revolutionary - Bill Ayers
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Ayers is an educator, political activist, and writer. He is most famous for being one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a ca...
The Midwife of Humanness - Kato Wittich
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kato Wittich is an LA based filmmaker, Rosen method practitioner and facilitator in Family Constellations Therapy. She is the founder of Liquid Soul...
The Media Mogul - Maxwell Ryan
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2001, Maxwell Ryan started blogging about helping people make their living spaces more beautiful, organized, and healthy. This blog grew into Apa...
The Clown - Adrian Danzig
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Danzig is a performer, circus clown, and teacher. He was the founder of 500 Clown performance company and a co-founder of the Redmoon theater...
The Sex Therapist - Dr. Laura Berman
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Laura Berman is a world renowned couples and sex therapist. She has had shows on the Oprah TV and radio networks. She's written numerous book...
Podcast Teaser
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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