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You Can Be a Dictator, Too (w/ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith)
Ten years ago, NYU political scientists Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith wrote "The Dictator's Handbook," which posited that all political leaders — from autocrats to democratically-elected…
Published on 5 years ago
The Revolt Is Justified (w/ Nadav Eyal)
Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal brings an outsider’s eye to American politics (or as he puts it, a perspective from” an outpost of the empire”). Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa Quirk ask about his…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Why Everything Is a Culture War Thing (w/ Katie Herzog)
We talk to one of the most (to quote Adaam) inexplicably hated people in media: Katie Herzog. She helps us understand the controversy that's hounded her for the past three years, why you can't escape…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Wake Up, Change the Channel (w/ Michael Smerconish)
Michael Smerconish, host of eponymous shows on CNN and SiriusXM P.O.T.U.S., joins us to talk about why everything is so rotten in political media. We talk about surviving as an independent in a parti…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
'I'm a Liberal Who Lost His Faith' (w/ Tom Holland)
Tom Holland, historian and bestselling author of Rubicon and In the Shadow of the Sword, joins us to discuss his latest book, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. A certified atheist, Tom puts h…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
P.S. Getting Drunk for Jesus (Persico Revisited)
To celebrate the release of the first episode of Uncertain Things, Vanessa and Adaam got together (virtually) with house expert on all things Christian Misha Thomas to drill further into some of the …
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
How The Image of God Made Us All Atheists (w/ Tomer Persico)
Tomer Persico, religious scholar and Israeli intellectual, talks to us (in our inaugural podcast — woohoo!) about what he considers to be one of the most impactful ideas in the modern world: The Imag…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago