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Back to SearchHow Have Elon Musk and Tesla Gotten Away With So Much Lying and Fraudulence?
Episode 102
Today Nathan is joined by Edward Niedermeyer, an investigative journalist whose book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors remains the definitive critical account of the rise of Elon Musk …
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Has "Wokeness" Become a "Religion"?
Episode 101
In this contentious conversation, Nathan speaks to Prof. John McWhorter about his book Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. Prof. McWhorter is a linguist at Columbia University…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
How Did The COVID-19 Pandemic Actually Start? (w/ Alina Chan)
Episode 100
Today's guest is molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan, a fellow at the Broad Institute and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She has been one of the most prominent commentators…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Why We Should Reclaim Thomas Paine and FDR (w/ Harvey Kaye)
Episode 99
Prof. Harvey J. Kaye is the author of books like Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, and most recently Tak…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Why Is the Pursuit of Money Such an American Obsession? (w/ Lewis Lapham)
Episode 98
Today Nathan is joined by legendary former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham. Lapham is the author of numerous books including Money and Class in America, Age of Folly, and Lapham's Rules of Influence. He…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Why All The Anti-Trans Arguments Are Ignorant Nonsense (w/ Julia Serano)
Episode 97
Julia Serano is a PhD molecular biologist, writer, and musician whose books include Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
When YIMBYs Attack: Democratic Socialist Dean Preston on the San Francisco Housing Crisis
Episode 96
Dean Preston represents District 5 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A tenants' rights attorney and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, he was the first democratic socialist elec…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Why Don't We Have Constitutional Rights Anymore? (w/ Aziz Huq)
Episode 95
Aziz Huq is an expert in constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school. He is the author of the book The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, available from Oxford University Press. Prof…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
What Is "Systemic Racism" and How Pervasive Is It?
Episode 94
Today's guest is Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University. Prof. Loury has had a distinguished career—he was the youngest-ever tenured Black economics professor at Harvard and is known…
Published on 4 years ago
Does the Right to Counsel Actually Exist In the U.S.?
Episode 93
Today's guest is Stephen Bright, one of the best criminal defense attorneys in the United States. Prof. Bright teaches at Yale Law School and Georgetown Law, but has spent most of his life working as…
Published on 4 years ago