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The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

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Could World War II Have Ended Without the Atomic Bomb? 2026-11-07 · 82m
How Much Credit Do You Deserve for Your Life? 2026-10-31 · 71m
Why Consciousness Needs a Body 2026-10-17 · 80m
Racism and White Guilt: Has America Changed More Than We Admit? | Shelby Steele & Eli Steele 2026-10-10 · 42m
Would You Want to Know If You Were Wrong? 2026-09-28 · 98m
Does Consciousness Break the Laws of Physics? 2026-09-22 · 46m
Jared Diamond: How Much Can One Person Change History? 2026-09-15 · 89m
Why America Failed to Stop 9/11 | Gerald Posner & Michael Shermer 2026-09-11 · 43m
Why Be Honest When Cheating Pays? 2026-09-09 · 105m
Is the Future Unknowable? Uncertainty, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 2026-09-01 · 84m
Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them 2026-08-25 · 74m
Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity 2026-08-18 · 78m
Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong 2026-08-11 · 117m
Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity 2026-08-05 · 83m
Can You Trust Wikipedia? Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's Bias and Why He Was Banned 2026-07-30 · 124m
How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism 2026-07-18 · 64m
The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams) 2026-07-11 · 55m
America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right? 2026-07-06 · 17m
When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity 2026-06-27 · 92m
Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council 2026-06-23 · 29m
Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions 2026-06-20 · 94m
Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech 2026-06-16 · 90m
The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real 2026-06-13 · 99m
How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You 2026-06-09 · 94m
Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now 2026-06-06 · 55m
From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology 2026-06-03 · 59m
Can Science Fix Criminal Justice? 2026-05-29 · 67m
Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous 2026-05-26 · 90m
Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions 2026-05-19 · 62m
Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims 2026-05-16 · 75m
From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg) 2026-05-14 · 78m
The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor 2026-05-11 · 79m
The UFO Files Were Declassified Today 2026-05-08 · 31m
Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand) 2026-05-05 · 64m
The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation 2026-05-02 · 99m
Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi 2026-04-28 · 71m
Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained 2026-04-24 · 16m
Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men. 2026-04-21 · 85m
Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms 2026-04-18 · 68m
What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline 2026-04-14 · 58m
How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity 2026-04-11 · 91m
What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive 2026-04-08 · 87m
Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle 2026-04-05 · 19m
Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z 2026-04-03 · 90m
The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion 2026-03-31 · 77m
Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman 2026-03-28 · 72m
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West 2026-03-24 · 85m
The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy 2026-03-17 · 69m
DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits 2026-03-14 · 89m
Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right 2026-03-12 · 63m
Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?" 2026-03-08 · 53m
Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way 2026-03-06 · 98m
Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing 2026-02-26 · 91m
Filming Corey Feldman & "Corey's Angels": The Weird World Behind the Curtain 2026-02-21 · 93m
Can a Skeptic Believe in God? 2026-02-15 · 77m
Shermer Says 6: Jeffrey Epstein and Me 2026-02-07 · 15m
The Evolutionary Roots of Love, Sex, and Jealousy 2026-02-03 · 93m
Truth Still Matters (And Here's Why) 2026-01-27 · 56m
Shermer Says 5: What Went Wrong in Minnesota? Protests, Panic, and Personal Responsibility 2026-01-26 · 28m
Government Transparency & UFOs: Inside Military Programs and Classified Briefings 2026-01-21 · 71m
The Hardest UFO Cases to Dismiss: Something Is Flying Around and We Don't Know What It Is 2026-01-18 · 84m
Why Survival Isn't Enough: The Deep Human Need to Matter 2026-01-14 · 82m
Shermer Says 4: Venezuela, ICE in Minnesota, UFOs & UAPs, and Social Norms Around Single-Sex Spaces 2026-01-12 · 52m
Mental Health: More Diagnoses, Fewer Answers? 2026-01-10 · 90m
What Makes You "You" When Everything Is Just Atoms? 2026-01-06 · 110m
Rethinking the Discovery of DNA 2026-01-03 · 82m
How One Black Man Dismantled the KKK, One Conversation at a Time 2025-12-30 · 65m
The Collapse of Open Inquiry: Sacred Victims and Forbidden Questions 2025-12-28 · 90m
The Future of Brain Implants: Restoring Speech, Regaining Mobility, Treating Pain 2025-12-23 · 60m
The Original Alien Craze: When People Believed in Martians 2025-12-20 · 86m
How AI Sees Science Differently Than We Do 2025-12-16 · 128m
Can You Spot a Killer? The Dangerous Fantasy of Criminal Profiling 2025-12-13 · 74m
Why Wars Last Longer Than Experts Predict 2025-12-08 · 62m
The Emergent Mind: From Ant Colonies to Human Thought to Artificial Intelligence 2025-12-06 · 105m
Are We Meant to Leave Earth? Why Humanity May Have No Choice but to Go to Space 2025-12-02 · 94m
Cosmology, Creation, and the Evidence for God 2025-11-29 · 76m
Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester) 2025-11-22 · 81m
Logic, Creativity, and the Limits of AI: How Humans Think in Ways Machines Never Will 2025-11-18 · 110m
The Psychology of War: Could YOU Make a Moral Choice in Wartime? 2025-11-16 · 87m
Tribes, Teams, and Cults: How Groups Shape What We Believe 2025-11-11 · 96m
Shermer Says 3: Weird Experiences, the Meaning of Dreams, and What Mark Twain Knew About Reality 2025-11-08 · 32m
A Former Spy Explains How AI is Changing Espionage 2025-11-04 · 68m
Did Lost Civilizations Really Exist? An Archaeologist Explains 2025-11-02 · 99m
Charles Murray: Why I'm Taking Religion Seriously 2025-10-25 · 104m
The Myth of Human Exceptionalism: Why Humans Aren't as Special as We Think 2025-10-21 · 63m
Shermer Says: Why Secularists Are Turning to Religion, The Substitution Hypothesis, Sleep Paralysis 2025-10-18 · 43m
The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations 2025-10-15 · 96m
Shermer Says: Debate Skills, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Autism, Vaccines, ANTIFA, Bari Weiss & CBS News 2025-10-13 · 29m
When Rationality Becomes Irrational 2025-10-11 · 88m
The Science of Revenge: Why Getting Even Feels So Good 2025-10-07 · 89m
Why No One Thinks They're in a Cult 2025-10-05 · 74m
Was Benjamin Franklin America's First Scientist? 2025-09-30 · 89m
COVID-19: What We Learned (and Didn't) About Masks, Lockdowns, and Vaccines 2025-09-27 · 65m
The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment 2025-09-23 · 96m
Jim Lampley on Hosting the Super Bowl, Calling Tyson's Fights, and His Friendship with O.J. 2025-09-20 · 82m
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Shermer Reflects on Political Violence 2025-09-17 · 28m
The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics 2025-09-13 · 98m
How to Protect Children from Social Media and AI 2025-09-09 · 31m
The Future of Space Exploration Amid NASA Mission Shutdowns 2025-09-06 · 66m
Why Do Humans Speak? 2025-09-02 · 72m
Depopulation: The Silent Global Emergency 2025-08-30 · 76m
Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion 2025-08-26 · 84m
How Foreign Governments Influence U.S. Universities 2025-08-19 · 70m
Can We Prevent Aging? Eric Topol on Genes, Lifestyle, and AI in Healthcare 2025-08-18 · 77m
Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet? 2025-08-12 · 74m
Why the Left Needs Its Own Reckoning 2025-08-11 · 61m
Is Traditional Religion Doomed? 2025-08-05 · 82m
Drowning in Decisions: Do We Have Too Many Choices? 2025-07-29 · 86m
Are We Alone? Martin Rees on Aliens, The Fermi Paradox & The Fate of Humanity 2025-07-22 · 66m
The True Cost of Conviction 2025-07-15 · 79m
Debra Soh and Michael Shermer at FreedomFest 2025 2025-07-14 · 20m
Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution 2025-07-08 · 71m
Can Politics and Truth Coexist? 2025-07-01 · 69m
Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife 2025-06-25 · 109m
The Science Behind Menopause 2025-06-17 · 80m
Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism 2025-06-10 · 134m
The Myths of American Capitalism Explained 2025-05-31 · 106m
The Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins 2025-05-27 · 94m
Believing Is Seeing: Inside the Modern Paranormal Movement 2025-05-24 · 83m
Inside the CIA's Mind Control Experiments 2025-05-20 · 93m
Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization 2025-05-17 · 93m
AI, Trade Wars, Degrowth: What's Next for the Global Economy? 2025-05-12 · 71m
Is Modern Life Making Us Miserable? What's Fueling the Mental Health Crisis & What Can Help? 2025-05-10 · 83m
Free Speech Under Fire? From Campus Protests to Deportations 2025-05-06 · 78m
Is It Possible to Change Your Entire Personality? 2025-05-03 · 79m
The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions 2025-04-29 · 54m
Did Shutting Down Schools Help or Hurt? A COVID-19 Postmortem 2025-04-26 · 56m
What's Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility 2025-04-22 · 102m
Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control 2025-04-19 · 92m
Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn't Hers 2025-04-15 · 74m
What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning 2025-04-08 · 107m
What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web? 2025-04-01 · 79m
Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin's Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley) 2025-03-25 · 76m
The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain 2025-03-18 · 102m
Does the West Need a Religious Revival? (Shermer Solo) 2025-03-11 · 37m
Money, Lies, and God 2025-03-11 · 98m
Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI 2025-03-08 · 87m
New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life 2025-03-02 · 72m
Sex Work, Ethics, and Evolutionary Psychology: What REALLY Happens on Sugar Daddy Websites? 2025-02-18 · 106m
Half a Thousand Episodes: Still Chasing Truth 2025-02-11 · 38m
The Faith Deficit: Does America Need a Spiritual Backbone? 2025-02-04 · 90m
The Psychology of Serial Killers 2025-01-28 · 119m
What if Death Isn't the End? The Science of Forever 2025-01-21 · 90m
What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology 2025-01-14 · 110m
How to Start a New Country 2025-01-07 · 61m
How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets 2024-12-21 · 108m
Evidence-Based Charity and Moral Psychology 2024-12-17 · 83m
The Suggestible Brain 2024-12-14 · 85m
Rationality, Science Fiction, and Humanity's Future 2024-12-10 · 68m
Building a Wealthier, Fairer Society 2024-12-07 · 84m
Gareth Gore Investigates: Opus Dei, Dark Money, and Global Deception 2024-12-03 · 59m
The Current State of Atheism and Separation of Church and State 2024-11-30 · 88m
Paul Ehrlich on The Population Bomb, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Extinction 2024-11-26 · 64m
From the Big Bang to God: The Universe's Biggest Mysteries 2024-11-23 · 98m
Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality 2024-11-19 · 81m
2024 Election Postmortem 2024-11-14 · 26m
Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic 2024-11-12 · 71m
Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern) 2024-11-08 · 56m
The Most Important Election of My Lifetime … Again (Michael Shermer) 2024-10-31 · 20m
The Future of Global Order and America's Influence 2024-10-29 · 80m
Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right's America 2024-10-26 · 71m
The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection 2024-10-22 · 76m
Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead 2024-10-19 · 77m
The Future of AI: Consciousness and Ethical Dilemmas 2024-10-15 · 100m
Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment 2024-10-12 · 74m
Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect 2024-10-08 · 89m
How Religions Compete for Money, Power, and People 2024-10-05 · 96m
Why Ronald Reagan Wanted to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Max Boot) 2024-10-01 · 61m
Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice 2024-09-28 · 61m
Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery 2024-09-24 · 96m
Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate 2024-09-21 · 19m
Taming Silicon Valley: AI's Perils and Promise 2024-09-17 · 71m
Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives 2024-09-13 · 57m
Slavery, Enlightenment, and America's Refounding 2024-09-10 · 51m
How to Think About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything 2024-09-07 · 86m
Pseudohistory Makes a Comeback on Tucker Carlson's Show 2024-09-06 · 26m
The Science of Disbelief: Understanding Atheism and the Evolution of Religion 2024-09-03 · 102m
The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity 2024-09-01 · 146m
Unmasking the Unknown: UFOs, Alien Tech, and Military Secrets? 2024-08-30 · 32m
Are We Confused About Social Justice? (Helen Pluckrose) 2024-08-27 · 78m
The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers 2024-08-25 · 77m
The Logic of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and MAD Explained. 2024-08-23 · 44m
Why Men Are Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It 2024-08-20 · 92m
Bones, Bias, and Backlash: Elizabeth Weiss on the Politicization of Anthropology 2024-08-17 · 84m
The Physics of Life's Emergence 2024-08-13 · 107m
Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of a Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire 2024-08-10 · 53m
Richard Dawkins on Genetic Insights Into the History of Life 2024-08-06 · 75m
UFO Sightings Around the World: A Comprehensive History 2024-08-03 · 109m
Parent-Child Estrangement: How Does Divorce Affect Children? 2024-07-30 · 88m
The Influence of Politics and Tribalism on Climate Science 2024-07-27 · 91m
Death and the Search for Meaning in the Afterlife 2024-07-23 · 83m
Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights 2024-07-20 · 73m
Michael Shermer Reflects on the Trump Assassination Attempt 2024-07-17 · 56m
Thinking Critically About COVID: Conspiracies vs. Nuance and Facts (Jay Bhattacharya) 2024-07-13 · 87m
From Hippie to Whole Foods Mogul 2024-07-09 · 80m
Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work 2024-07-02 · 81m
Hong Kong's Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader 2024-06-29 · 77m
Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning 2024-06-26 · 96m
Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place 2024-06-22 · 75m
Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd) 2024-06-18 · 70m
UFOs: What We Know (And Don't Know) 2024-06-15 · 87m
Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity 2024-06-11 · 123m
Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience 2024-06-08 · 108m
How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2024-06-04 · 100m
How Likely Is War Over Taiwan? 2024-06-01 · 87m
Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath) 2024-05-28 · 98m
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives 2024-05-25 · 92m
How to Think About Social Justice 2024-05-21 · 95m
Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory 2024-05-18 · 76m
Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles) 2024-05-14 · 94m
The Latest Research on Consciousness (Christof Koch) 2024-05-11 · 74m
Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World 2024-05-07 · 97m
The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos 2024-05-04 · 92m
The Science of Happines 2024-04-30 · 108m
How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions 2024-04-27 · 71m
Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker) 2024-04-23 · 83m
Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen) 2024-04-20 · 75m
An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford) 2024-04-16 · 106m
Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin) 2024-04-13 · 101m
Robots and the People Who Love Them 2024-04-09 · 73m
The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions 2024-04-06 · 121m
The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain 2024-04-02 · 89m
The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes) 2024-03-30 · 95m
How to Repair America's Broken Democracy 2024-03-26 · 68m
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier) 2024-03-23 · 68m
An Unfinished History of the Holocaust 2024-03-19 · 97m
The Weirdness of the World 2024-03-16 · 123m
The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein 2024-03-12 · 88m
Who Wrote the Qur'an, Why, and What Does it Really Say? 2024-03-09 · 96m
Purpose in the Eyes of a Psychiatrist 2024-03-05 · 99m
Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism? 2024-03-02 · 95m
The Power of Noticing What Was Always There 2024-02-27 · 95m
China's Grip on Rare-Earth Elements and the Future of Global Energy Security 2024-02-24 · 65m
mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit) 2024-02-20 · 73m
Foster Care, Family, and Social Class 2024-02-17 · 128m
How U.S. Public Health Has Strayed From Its Liberal Roots 2024-02-13 · 85m
Against the New Politics of Identity 2024-02-10 · 89m
What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA? 2024-02-06 · 83m
Transforming Mental Health: Little Treatments, Big Effects 2024-02-03 · 67m
Overcoming Self-Censorship in the Age of Outrage 2024-01-30 · 131m
One Couple's Vacation Caused 100,000 People to Die 2024-01-27 · 114m
Head of TED Talks Shares a New Vision of Generosity 2024-01-23 · 78m
Are Parallel Universes and Extra Dimensions Real? 2024-01-17 · 76m
Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media 2024-01-09 · 87m
Multiculturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide 2024-01-03 · 48m
The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays) 2023-12-24 · 2m
A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Ford's Career in 4 Hours 2023-12-19 · 142m
How Not to Age 2023-12-16 · 123m
How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult 2023-12-12 · 95m
Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism 2023-12-05 · 79m
The Purpose of the Universe 2023-12-02 · 117m
How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation 2023-11-28 · 101m
JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination 2023-11-22 · 116m
The Scientific Search for Alien Life 2023-11-18 · 98m
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity 2023-11-15 · 30m
UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life 2023-11-14 · 74m
Identity Politics and its Discontents 2023-11-11 · 103m
What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things? (Dan Ariely) 2023-11-07 · 90m
The Role of Iran in the Israel-Hamas Conflict 2023-11-04 · 93m
The Secret History of Women at the CIA 2023-10-31 · 92m
America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2023-10-27 · 110m
Cancel Culture and What to Do About It (Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott) 2023-10-24 · 93m
Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism 2023-10-17 · 114m
Armageddon in the Middle East? (David Wolpe) 2023-10-13 · 58m
Should Employers Pay For Emotional Labor? 2023-10-10 · 111m
Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career 2023-10-03 · 88m
How the American Right Became Radicalized 2023-09-27 · 88m
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 2023-09-26 · 3m
Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People 2023-09-19 · 59m
How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy 2023-09-12 · 94m
The Law vs. Separation of Church and State 2023-09-05 · 120m
Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why? 2023-09-01 · 102m
Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb 2023-08-29 · 92m
Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson) 2023-08-22 · 105m
Maybe "Good Enough" Is Actually Enough? When Perfectionism Backfires. 2023-08-15 · 105m
Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg) 2023-08-08 · 94m
Why We Get Fooled 2023-08-01 · 115m
The Saad Truth About Happiness 2023-07-25 · 117m
Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America 2023-07-18 · 99m
The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-07-12 · 83m
An Outsider's Perspective on American Culture Wars 2023-07-05 · 133m
Children and Politics 2023-06-27 · 76m
The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know 2023-06-20 · 183m
Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblowers 2023-06-14 · 59m
Is the Government Hiding Aliens? 2023-06-08 · 33m
A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense. 2023-06-06 · 109m
Identity or Merit: What Matters More? (Heather Mac Donald) 2023-05-30 · 97m
Are We Risking Our Ability to Think? 2023-05-27 · 94m
Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku) 2023-05-25 · 81m
What Happened to Women's Rights? 2023-05-23 · 142m
My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life 2023-05-18 · 43m
Could the American Economy Collapse Like Venezuela's? (Mark Skousen) 2023-05-16 · 110m
Scams and Frauds: A Skeptic's Survival Guide 2023-05-13 · 74m
What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier? 2023-05-09 · 101m
How Can God Feel So Real? 2023-05-06 · 89m
Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World? 2023-05-04 · 42m
346. Kennon Sheldon — What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Determinism 2023-05-02 · 87m
345. Matt Johnson — How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment 2023-04-29 · 99m
344. What is a Woman, Anyway? 2023-04-26 · 37m
343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It 2023-04-25 · 123m
342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English 2023-04-22 · 122m
341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies — John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare 2023-04-18 · 106m
340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other 2023-04-15 · 101m
339. Gerald and Patricia Posner on Evil 2023-04-11 · 113m
338. AI SciFi — Physicist, Science Fiction Author, and AI Expert David Brin on ChatGPT and Whether AI Poses an Existential Threat 2023-04-08 · 97m
337. On the Origin of Time — Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking's Final Theory 2023-04-01 · 86m
336. The Sacred Depths of Nature — Ursula Goodenough on How to Find Sacred Scientific Spirituality 2023-03-28 · 98m
335. Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Happiness in Everyday Life 2023-03-25 · 96m
334. The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End 2023-03-21 · 102m
333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living 2023-03-18 · 105m
332. Wrongfully Convicted, Ultimately Acquitted — Amanda Knox on Criminal Injustice and Why It Happens 2023-03-14 · 57m
331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness 2023-03-11 · 109m
330. Jim Davies — How to Be a Better Person 2023-03-07 · 107m
329. Marc Schulz — The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness 2023-03-04 · 111m
328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind 2023-02-28 · 121m
327. Rachel Moran on Her Years in Prostitution, How She Got Out of It, and Why She Thinks It Is a Form of Sexual Exploitation 2023-02-25 · 89m
326. Naomi Oreskes — The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market 2023-02-21 · 114m
325. Heinrich Päs — The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics 2023-02-18 · 88m
324. Andrew Gold on Exorcism, Abortion, Pedophilia, Sex & UFOs 2023-02-14 · 136m
323. Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World 2023-02-11 · 116m
322. Marty Klein — Sex Matters 2023-02-07 · 153m
321. William Magnuson — For Profit: A History of Corporations 2023-02-04 · 96m
320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society 2023-01-31 · 127m
319. Steven Hassan — Combatting Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump 2023-01-28 · 117m
318. Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World 2023-01-24 · 114m
317. Dacher Keltner — Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life 2023-01-21 · 101m
316. Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance 2023-01-17 · 124m
315. David Bernstein — Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America 2023-01-14 · 100m
314. Martin Rees — Can Science Save Us? 2023-01-03 · 100m
313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age 2022-12-27 · 120m
312. Louise Perry — The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century 2022-12-24 · 93m
311. Meghan Daum — The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars 2022-12-20 · 99m
310. Todd Kashdan — The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively 2022-12-13 · 117m
309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress 2022-12-06 · 85m
308. Iris Berent — The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature 2022-11-29 · 83m
307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism 2022-11-22 · 97m
306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics 2022-11-15 · 85m
305. Bethanne Patrick — Book World 2022-11-08 · 99m
304. Justin Gregg — If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity 2022-11-01 · 98m
303. Michael Shermer — Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational 2022-10-25 · 32m
302. Tim Palmer — The Primacy of Doubt 2022-10-18 · 120m
301. Alan Blinder — A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States 2022-10-11 · 77m
300. Saleem Ali — Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life 2022-10-04 · 129m
299. Richard Reeves — Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It 2022-09-29 · 138m
298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization 2022-09-20 · 77m
297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World 2022-09-13 · 105m
296. Stephen Bloom on Jane Elliott's Famous Experiment on Race and Brutality and What It Reveals About Today's Racial Divide 2022-09-06 · 123m
295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet 2022-08-30 · 114m
294. Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions 2022-08-23 · 87m
293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West 2022-08-19 · 80m
292. Gary Marcus — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust 2022-08-16 · 124m
291. Rob Ashton — Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating 2022-08-09 · 106m
290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse 2022-08-02 · 95m
289. James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington 2022-07-26 · 100m
288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species 2022-07-19 · 67m
287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity 2022-07-12 · 127m
286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why 2022-07-09 · 106m
285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality 2022-07-05 · 116m
284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism 2022-06-28 · 110m
283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science 2022-06-25 · 92m
282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition 2022-06-21 · 129m
281. Moneyball For Your Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Using Data to Get What You Really Want 2022-06-18 · 102m
280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States 2022-06-14 · 121m
279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History 2022-06-11 · 108m
278. "Big Historian" David Christian on Time, the Near and Far Future, Transhumanism, Interstellar Migrations, the Fate of Our Species, and the End of Time 2022-06-07 · 108m
277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories 2022-06-04 · 123m
276. Andrew Yang — Not Left. Not Right. Forward. 2022-05-31 · 68m
275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury 2022-05-28 · 73m
274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum 2022-05-24 · 88m
273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma 2022-05-21 · 126m
272. Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational 2022-05-17 · 85m
271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever 2022-05-14 · 86m
270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli) 2022-05-10 · 118m
269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution 2022-05-07 · 89m
268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture 2022-05-03 · 59m
267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology 2022-04-30 · 89m
266. Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills 2022-04-26 · 89m
265. Christopher Blattman on Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace 2022-04-23 · 104m
264. Adam Levin on Identity Theft and How to Protect Yourself from Scammers, Phishers, and Fraudsters of All Types 2022-04-18 · 101m
263. Dave Rubin — Left, Right, and Woke, based on his book Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia 2022-04-16 · 66m
262. Oliver Stone on Ukraine, Putin, and the Military-Industrial Complex 2022-04-12 · 43m
261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science 2022-04-09 · 103m
260. Batya Ungar-Sargon — Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy 2022-04-05 · 139m
259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos 2022-04-02 · 102m
258. Jacek Kugler — Putin & Power Transition Theory: China, Russia, and Ukraine 2022-03-29 · 86m
257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos 2022-03-26 · 120m
256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal 2022-03-22 · 70m
255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy 2022-03-19 · 112m
254. Ravi Gupta on the Lost Debate: Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement? 2022-03-15 · 99m
253. Jennifer Sciubba on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, National & Global Security, and How Population Demographics Shape Our Future 2022-03-12 · 80m
252. John Mueller on Putin's War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO 2022-03-08 · 86m
251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything 2022-03-01 · 103m
250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine. 2022-02-25 · 23m
249. Barbara F. Walter on How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, including in the United States 2022-02-22 · 105m
248. Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past 2022-02-15 · 128m
247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media 2022-02-08 · 109m
246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups 2022-02-01 · 106m
245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck 2022-01-29 · 162m
244. Johnjoe McFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the UniverseMcFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe 2022-01-25 · 118m
243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke 2022-01-22 · 126m
242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down 2022-01-18 · 97m
241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong 2022-01-15 · 97m
240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking 2022-01-11 · 113m
239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know 2022-01-04 · 118m
238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us 2021-12-28 · 101m
237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 2021-12-21 · 93m
236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World 2021-12-18 · 88m
235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley) 2021-12-14 · 97m
234. Matt Ridley on the search for the origin of COVID-19 2021-12-11 · 77m
233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend… 2021-12-07 · 19m
232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention 2021-12-04 · 93m
231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People 2021-11-30 · 101m
230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend 2021-11-27 · 68m
229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point? 2021-11-23 · 96m
228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled 2021-11-20 · 97m
227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking 2021-11-16 · 135m
226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak 2021-11-13 · 96m
225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart 2021-11-09 · 106m
224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think 2021-11-06 · 110m
223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life 2021-11-02 · 144m
222. Suzanne O'Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses 2021-10-30 · 95m
221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious 2021-10-26 · 102m
220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness 2021-10-23 · 117m
219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer's Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer's Home 2021-10-19 · 109m
218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War 2021-10-16 · 91m
217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory 2021-10-12 · 99m
216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality 2021-10-09 · 107m
215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics 2021-10-05 · 109m
214. Tom Nichols — Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy 2021-10-02 · 97m
213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything 2021-09-28 · 97m
212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It 2021-09-25 · 90m
211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History 2021-09-21 · 103m
208. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less 2021-09-18 · 120m
209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century 2021-09-14 · 92m
208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism 2021-09-10 · 28m
207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit 2021-09-07 · 96m
206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World 2021-09-04 · 127m
205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science 2021-09-01 · 87m
204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us 2021-08-28 · 107m
203. Lee McIntyre — How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason 2021-08-24 · 96m
202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't 2021-08-21 · 107m
201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7) 2021-08-18 · 73m
200. Philip Zimbardo on the Nature & Nurture of Good & Evil 2021-08-15 · 110m
199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change 2021-08-10 · 84m
198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism 2021-08-07 · 134m
197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism 2021-08-03 · 126m
196. Annie Murphy Paul — The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain 2021-07-31 · 95m
195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror's Conundrum 2021-07-27 · 133m
194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious Leadership 2021-07-21 · 108m
193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments 2021-07-17 · 123m
192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution 2021-07-10 · 122m
191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience 2021-07-03 · 92m
190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth 2021-06-26 · 101m
189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment 2021-06-19 · 101m
188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard — Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic 2021-06-16 · 120m
187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 2021-06-08 · 116m
186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance 2021-06-02 · 67m
185. Stephen Meyer — Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical) 2021-05-29 · 118m
184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters 2021-05-25 · 101m
183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning — The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism 2021-05-22 · 89m
182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOs 2021-05-18 · 109m
181. David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault 2021-05-15 · 108m
180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think 2021-05-11 · 96m
179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe 2021-05-08 · 99m
178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality 2021-05-04 · 123m
177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature 2021-05-01 · 113m
176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society 2021-04-27 · 100m
175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof 2021-04-24 · 108m
174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life 2021-04-20 · 169m
173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science? 2021-04-17 · 106m
172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters 2021-04-13 · 135m
171. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters 2021-04-10 · 109m
170. Michio Kaku — The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything 2021-04-06 · 97m
169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence 2021-04-03 · 107m
168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer) 2021-03-30 · 126m
167. Gary Taubes — The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating 2021-03-23 · 110m
166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman) 2021-03-20 · 95m
165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America 2021-03-16 · 81m
164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going 2021-03-13 · 107m
163. Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody 2021-03-09 · 132m
162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism 2021-03-06 · 112m
161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness 2021-03-02 · 62m
160. Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters 2021-02-27 · 96m
159. Joshua Glasgow — The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life 2021-02-23 · 101m
158. Jason D. Hill — We Have Overcome: An Immigrant's Letter to The American People 2021-02-20 · 98m
157. Avi Loeb — Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth 2021-02-16 · 122m
156. Ayaan Hirsi Ali — Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights 2021-02-09 · 97m
155. Martin Sherwin — Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962 2021-02-02 · 103m
154. David Sloan Wilson — Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III 2021-01-26 · 119m
153. Kevin Dutton — Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World 2021-01-19 · 107m
152. Politics & Truth — Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary "Trump & Truth" 2021-01-17 · 22m
151. Trump & Truth — A Commentary by Michael Shermer 2021-01-12 · 47m
150. Daniel Lieberman — Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding 2021-01-05 · 90m
149. The After Time: The Future of Civilization After COVID-19 2020-12-29 · 44m
148. Have Archetype — Will Travel: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon 2020-12-22 · 41m
147. David Barash — On the Brink of Destruction 2020-12-15 · 110m
146. Donald Prothero — Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet 2020-12-08 · 78m
145. Greg Lukianoff — How Free is Free Speech? 2020-12-01 · 71m
144. Agustín Fuentes — Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being 2020-11-24 · 100m
143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live 2020-11-17 · 83m
142. Philip Goff — Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness 2020-11-09 · 113m
141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union 2020-11-02 · 91m
140. Rebecca Wragg Sykes — Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art 2020-10-27 · 99m
BONUS: James Randi—A Report from the Paranormal Trenches (1992) 2020-10-25 · 93m
139. Shelby Steele — Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown? 2020-10-20 · 98m
138. Douglas Murray — The Madness of 2020 2020-10-16 · 72m
137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 2020-10-13 · 94m
136. Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense 2020-10-06 · 97m
135. Paul Halpern — Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect 2020-09-29 · 77m
134. Joe Henrich — The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous 2020-09-22 · 83m
133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code 2020-09-15 · 116m
132. Leonard Mlodinow — Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics 2020-09-08 · 88m
131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth 2020-09-01 · 101m
130. Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society 2020-08-25 · 107m
129. Mona Sue Weissmark — The Science of Diversity 2020-08-18 · 118m
128. Michael Shellenberger — Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All 2020-08-11 · 93m
127. William Perry and Tom Collina — The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump 2020-08-04 · 51m
126. Sarah Scoles — They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers 2020-07-28 · 87m
125. Bjorn Lomborg — False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet 2020-07-21 · 83m
124. David J. Halperin — Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO 2020-07-14 · 104m
123. Gerald Posner — Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America 2020-07-07 · 97m
122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity 2020-06-30 · 74m
121. Maria Konnikova — The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win 2020-06-23 · 79m
120. Andrew Rader — Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars 2020-06-16 · 101m
119. Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll 2020-06-09 · 118m
118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control 2020-06-02 · 82m
117. Matt Ridley — How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom 2020-05-26 · 95m
116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life 2020-05-19 · 70m
115. Matthew Cobb — The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience 2020-05-12 · 100m
114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism 2020-05-05 · 60m
113. Dave Rubin — Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason 2020-04-28 · 85m
112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds 2020-04-21 · 93m
111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization 2020-04-14 · 97m
110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife 2020-03-31 · 87m
109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA 2020-03-24 · 90m
108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe 2020-03-17 · 73m
107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War 2020-03-10 · 80m
106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences 2020-03-03 · 98m
105. Diana Pasulka — American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology 2020-02-25 · 102m
104. Judith Finlayson — You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease 2020-02-18 · 85m
103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work 2020-02-11 · 109m
102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress 2020-02-04 · 105m
101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe 2020-01-28 · 119m
100. AMA-6. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything 2020-01-21 · 62m
99. Bobby Duffy — Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding 2020-01-14 · 94m
98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science 2020-01-07 · 120m
97. Amber Scorah — Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life 2019-12-31 · 96m
96. Catherine Wilson — How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well 2019-12-24 · 72m
95. John Martin Fischer — Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life 2019-12-17 · 95m
94. David Leiser — How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters 2019-12-10 · 83m
93. Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech 2019-12-02 · 124m
92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo 2019-11-19 · 107m
91. James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea 2019-11-12 · 82m
90. Melvin Konner — Believers: Faith in Human Nature 2019-11-05 · 99m
89. Richard Dawkins — Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide 2019-10-29 · 40m
88. Daniel Oberhaus — Extraterrestrial Languages 2019-10-22 · 81m
87. Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity 2019-10-15 · 71m
86. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Letters from an Astrophysicist 2019-10-08 · 68m
85. Deepak Chopra — Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential 2019-10-01 · 55m
84. Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can't Be Computed 2019-09-24 · 93m
83. Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide 2019-09-17 · 75m
82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life 2019-09-10 · 77m
81. Bruce Hood — Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need 2019-09-03 · 100m
80. Bryan Walsh — End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World 2019-08-27 · 64m
79. Anthony Kronman — The Assault on American Excellence 2019-08-20 · 81m
78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes 2019-08-13 · 104m
77. Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience 2019-07-30 · 114m
76. William Poundstone — The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe 2019-07-23 · 80m
75. Charles Fishman — One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon 2019-07-16 · 93m
74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science 2019-07-09 · 72m
73. Andrew Seidel — Busting the Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American 2019-07-01 · 80m
72. Robert Zubrin — The Case for Space: Spaceflight Revolution 2019-06-24 · 99m
71. Dr. Michael Shermer — What is Truth? 2019-06-17 · 69m
70. Dr. Brian Keating — Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor 2019-06-11 · 92m
69. Dr. Barbara Tversky — Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought 2019-06-04 · 83m
68. Dr. Michael Ruse — A Darwinian Meaning to Life 2019-05-28 · 99m
67. Dr. Christian Smith — Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver 2019-05-21 · 96m
66. Dr. Christian List — Why Free Will is Real: A response to Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, and Other Determinists 2019-05-15 · 96m
65. Jared Diamond — Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis 2019-05-07 · 90m
64. Michael Tomasello — Becoming Human 2019-04-30 · 86m
63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia — Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide 2019-04-24 · 96m
AMA-5. Dr. Michael Shermer — "Are the Miracles of Jesus 2019-04-21 · 27m
62. Dr. Mark Moffett — The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall 2019-04-16 · 92m
61. Dr. Richard Wrangham — The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 2019-04-10 · 102m
60. Nicholas A. Christakis — Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society 2019-04-03 · 95m
59. Cass R. Sunstein — On Freedom 2019-03-26 · 60m
58. Ben Shapiro — The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great 2019-03-19 · 50m
57. Dr. Frans de Waal — Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves 2019-03-12 · 63m
56. Dr. Tyler Cowen — How an Economist Views the World 2019-03-06 · 81m
AMA-4. Dr. Michael Shermer — The Problem of Evil 2019-03-03 · 21m
55. Dr. David Sloan Wilson — This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution 2019-02-27 · 103m
54. Dr. Michele Gelfand — Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World 2019-02-20 · 106m
53. Adam Higginbotham — China Syndrome II: The True Story of What Happened at Chernobyl 2019-02-12 · 51m
52. Bruce Schneier — Hacked! Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World 2019-02-05 · 72m
51. Gregg Hurwitz — Into the Light: Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and Trump 2019-01-30 · 93m
AMA-3. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything! 2019-01-22 · 36m
50. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld — A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security 2019-01-15 · 83m
AMA-2. Dr. Michael Shermer: Ask Me Anything! 2019-01-08 · 77m
49. Dr. Gad Saad — Doing Gad's Work 2019-01-01 · 85m
48. Sir Martin Rees — On the Future: Prospects for Humanity 2018-12-25 · 101m
47. Dr. Susan Blackmore — Altered States and Conscious Beings 2018-12-04 · 82m
46. Zac Sechler interviews Michael Shermer about Why People Believe in God 2018-11-27 · 46m
45. Daniel de Visé — On Comebacks in Sports and Life 2018-11-13 · 83m
44. Dr. David P. Barash — Human Nature Through a Glass Brightly 2018-11-06 · 93m
43. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — Coming Apart 2018-10-30 · 75m
42. Dr. Clay Routledge — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything 2018-10-17 · 121m
40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah — Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity 2018-10-03 · 92m
39. Heather Mac Donald — The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture 2018-09-26 · 99m
38. Dr. Yuval Noah Harari — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century 2018-09-18 · 83m
37. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military 2018-09-12 · 82m
36. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure 2018-09-05 · 79m
35. Dr. Tali Sharot — The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change Others 2018-08-29 · 59m
34. Colin McGinn — Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Philosophy 2018-08-22 · 71m
33. David Quammen — The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life 2018-08-15 · 84m
32. Nina Teicholz — The Big Fat Surprise About Diet and Nutrition 2018-08-07 · 71m
31. Amy Alkon — Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence 2018-07-31 · 96m
30. Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe 2018-07-25 · 84m
29. Colin McGinn — Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God 2018-07-16 · 101m
AMA-1. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything! 2018-07-09 · 62m
28. Edward J. Larson — On Faith and Science 2018-07-02 · 90m
27. Charles S. Cockell — The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution 2018-06-25 · 87m
26. Dr. Stephen T. Asma — Why We Need Religion 2018-06-22 · 82m
25. Richard Rhodes — Energy: A Human History 2018-05-29 · 80m
24. Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon — Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto 2018-05-22 · 73m
23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will 2018-05-19 · 98m
22. Dr. Gregory Berns — What It's Like to Be a Dog…and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience 2018-04-16 · 70m
21. Dr. Leonard Mlodinow — Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change 2018-04-09 · 52m
20. Dr. Michael Shermer — Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia 2018-03-25 · 56m
19. Bill Nye the Science Guy Saves the World on Netflix 2018-03-07 · 86m
18. Dr. Bart Ehrman — How a Forbidden Religion (Christianity) Swept the World 2018-02-19 · 79m
17. Dr. Kip Thorne — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and Hollywood 2018-02-18 · 75m
16. Dr. Robert Trivers — Evolutionary Theory & Human Nature 2017-11-16 · 50m
15. Donald Prothero & Timothy Callahan — UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says 2017-10-15 · 67m
14. Dr. Nancy Segal — Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins 2017-09-17 · 54m
13. Dr. Walter Scheidel — The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century 2017-06-11 · 58m
12. Derren Brown — Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism 2017-05-15 · 76m
11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman — Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong 2017-04-23 · 76m
10. Dr. Carol Tavris — Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) 2017-02-19 · 64m
9. Gary Taubes — The Case Against Sugar 2017-01-22 · 68m
8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan — Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos 2016-11-13 · 93m
7. Dr. Benjamin Bergen — What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves 2016-10-16 · 102m
6. Dr. Stephon Alexander — The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe 2016-05-22 · 94m
5. Dr. Janna Levin — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and the Nature of the Cosmos 2016-04-10 · 63m
4. Dr. Sean B. Carroll — The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters 2016-03-20 · 95m
3. Dr. Arthur Benjamin — The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why 2016-01-24 · 93m
2. Michelle Feynman — The Quotable Feynman & His Van 2015-12-20 · 76m
1. Dr. Lisa Randall — Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe 2015-11-22 · 72m
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