Podcast Episodes

BONUS: The 1987 Book that Explains Mamdani’s Victory

Today, I’m bringing you a special bonus episode with professor Shilo Brooks. Shilo is the host of a new Free Press books podcast called, 'Old School'.

For our conversation, I picked Thomas Sowell’s …

Published on 8 hours ago

Hormones, Ideology, and the Cost of Dissent with Carole Hooven

My guest today is evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven. If you’ve followed her story, you know she was effectively pushed out of Harvard for articulating a basic biological fact—and doing it politely…

Published on 2 days, 8 hours ago

Inside Cuba’s Police State: From Ration Cards to Black Berets with Gelet Martínez Fragela

My guest today is Gelet Martínez Fragela, a Cuban journalist and political refugee whose outlet is banned on the island. We trace Cuba’s path from independence to dictatorship, and separate myth from…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit

On October 21, 2023, beloved Detroit community leader Samantha Woll was found brutally stabbed to death outside her home—two weeks to the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. It looks like an o…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad

Dr. Gad Saad is a visiting scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom in Mississippi and an evolutionary psychologist. We discuss his forthcoming book, Suicid…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Can Evolution Explain Our Politics? Nicholas Wade Thinks So

Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for The New York Times and author of several books on human evolution, including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History and his new book, T…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

A Debate with Dave Smith: Israel, Iran, and American Power

Note that this conversation took place before Hamas addressed some conditions of President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan and said it agreed to release all remaining hostages.

This was the most …

Published on 1 month ago

Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives

Recorded live at the Comedy Cellar in New York City: I sat down with Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, best-selling author, and world-class debunker of doom, to talk about his new book, When Every…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Politics for the Exhausted American Voter with Jane Coaston

In this episode, I’m joined by Jane Coaston, a journalist and former host of The Argument podcast at The New York Times who is now a host at Crooked Media. We talk about how she became a libertarian,…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Understanding the Black Conservative Vote with Janiyah Thomas

In this mini episode, I’m joined by Janiyah Thomas, the Black Media Director for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. We talk about Charlie Kirk's assasination, Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, Trump’…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago