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Back to SearchWhat Really Prevents Cognitive Decline
Episode 601
What actually causes cognitive decline, and how much of it can we do something about?
In this episode, Michael talks with neurologist and neuroscient…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity
Episode 600
Why does religion still dominate American politics when so many other wealthy democracies secularized long ago?
In this episode, Michael Shermer talk…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive
Episode 599
How does something living emerge from something that isn't?
In this episode, Lee Cronin pushes the question back even further: before cells, before …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle
Episode 598
On Easter Sunday, Michael asks whether the resurrection should be understood as history, myth, or something deeper.
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z
Episode 597
Fewer people are having sex, fewer are forming lasting relationships, and many feel more isolated than ever. Why?
Michael Shermer sits down with neur…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion
Episode 596
What do gaslighting, bullying, cults, and coercion have in common? In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with Jennifer Fraser about the psychology …
5 months ago
Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman
Episode 595
How much of what we call "basic morality" is actually inherited from Christianity? Bart Ehrman joins Michael Shermer for a wide-ranging conversation …
5 months ago
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West
Episode 594
Michael Shermer sits down with novelist and essayist Lionel Shriver for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when old political labels stop…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy
Episode 593
Zion Lights used to be deep inside the environmental movement: protests, arrests, road blockades, the whole thing. Then she started looking closely a…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits
Episode 592
Jeremy Jones joins Michael Shermer to talk about DOGE AI, government fraud, and the strange reality that some of the biggest problems in public life …
5 months, 2 weeks ago