Podcast Episodes

255 - Michael Hudson: Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics

Episode 255

Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He researches dom…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

254 - The Yale US-China Forum: Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, Yannis Varoufakis, Robin Visser, Yascha Mounk, Pei Wang, Daniel Mattingly

Episode 254

In this special episode, Robinson and Karl Zheng Wang co-host at the Yale US-China Forum. Return guests from the show include Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, and Yascha Mounk. Slavoj Žižek is internatio…

Published on 5 months ago

253 - Peter Zeihan: China’s Fall, America’s Rise, and the End of the World Order

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst, futurist, and best-selling author who researches and strategizes around demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security. In this episode, Pet…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

252 - David Kipping: Alien Civilizations, Megastructures, Spacecraft, and Artificial Intelligence

Episode 252

David Kipping is a Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University, where he runs Cool Worlds Lab and researches planets and moons that revolve around stars other than our own, in addition to his own w…

Published on 6 months ago

251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity

Episode 251

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a decision theorist, computer scientist, and author who co-founded and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is best known for his work on the alignme…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

250 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Israel, Gaza, and the Criminalization of Dissent

Episode 250

Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine.  Norman also appeared on episodes 192, 218, 228, and…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

249 - Chris Hedges: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Rise of American Fascism

Episode 249

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times. He has covered numerous wars across the decades, written many …

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

248 - Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire

Episode 248

Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is R…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

247 - Garry Nolan: Aliens | The Case They’re Already Here

Episode 247

Dr. Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 350 research articles and is the holder of 50…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

246 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on General Relativity

Episode 246

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is Tim’s seventh appearance on the show. He last appeared on epi…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago