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Currents 024: BJ Campbell on the Woke Religion
Season 1
BJ Campbell has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about article, "Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion", reflects on the future of wokeism, and much …
5 years, 2 months ago
EP106 Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science
Season 1 Episode 106
Michael Stevens talks to Jim about some of the ideas & stories in his book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science... M…
5 years, 2 months ago
EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness
Season 1 Episode 105
Christof Koch & Jim have a wide-ranging conversation about the science of consciousness and his book, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness I…
5 years, 2 months ago
EP104 Joe Henrich on WEIRD People
Season 1 Episode 104
Joe Henrich talks to Jim about some of the key insights from his book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar…
5 years, 2 months ago
Currents 023: Terry Gainer on the January 6th Riot
Season 1
Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief, Terry Gainer talks to Jim about his views on the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol... In this Currents episod…
5 years, 2 months ago
Currents 022: Curtis Yarvin on Institutional Failure
Season 1
Jim talks to Curtis Yarvin about his recent article, "2020, the year of everything fake": presentism, history, COVID-19 response failures, and much m…
5 years, 2 months ago
Currents 021: John Robb on Jan 6th, 2021
Season 1
John Robb talks to Jim about the Jan 6th events at the US Capitol: intel & ops failures, opensource insurgency, social media, Trump, and much more...…
5 years, 2 months ago
EP103 James Ehrlich on Regen Villages
Season 1 Episode 103
James Ehrlich talks to Jim about ReGen Villages: community types, de-urbanization & rural living, materialism, agriculture, and much more... Jam…
5 years, 2 months ago
EP102 Debora Spar on Technological Impacts on Culture
Season 1 Episode 102
Debora Spar & Jim have a wide-ranging chat on some of the insights in her book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. Debo…
5 years, 2 months ago
EP101 Clayton Banks on the Digital Divide
Season 1 Episode 101
Clayton Banks talks to Jim about essential tools & digital literacy, why & how he started Silicon Harlem, community dev, the FCC, and much more... …
5 years, 2 months ago