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EP 258 Stephen Webb on Where Are the Aliens?
Season 1 Episode 258
Jim talks with Stephen Webb about his book If the Universe Is Teeming With Aliens... Where Is Everybody?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 257 Malcolm and Simone Collins on Fertility Rates and Pronatalism
Season 1 Episode 259
Jim talks with Malcolm and Simone Collins about declining worldwide fertility rates and pronatalism. They discuss when fertility started declining, t…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 256 Glenn Loury on Confessions of a Black Conservative
Season 1 Episode 256
Jim talks with Glenn Loury about his recent memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. They discuss the problem of self-regard, Gl…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 255 Is God Real? (with Jordan Hall)
Season 1 Episode 255
Jordan Hall tries to convince Jim that the reality of the Christian God is logically necessary. They discuss points of agreement & resonance between …
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 254 John Robb on What Went Wrong with America
Season 1 Episode 254
Jim talks with John Robb about the ideas in his recent Substack essay, "What Went Wrong With America?" They discuss why there's a need to address wha…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 253 Alexander Bard Part 3: Process and Event
Season 1 Episode 253
Jim talks with Alexander Bard in the last of three conversations about his and Jan Söderqvist’s recent book Process and Event. They discuss the barre…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 252 Alexander Bard Part 2: Process and Event
Season 1 Episode 252
Jim talks with Alexander Bard in the second of three conversations about his and Jan Söderqvist's recent book Process and Event. They discuss eventol…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 251 Pamela Denise Long on Kamala Harris and Blackness in America
Season 1 Episode 251
Jim talks with Pamela Denise Long about the nomination of Kamala Harris and what it might mean for American Freedmen. They discuss the meaning & valu…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 250 Alexander Bard Part 1: Process and Event
Season 1 Episode 250
Jim talks with Alexander Bard for the first in a series of conversations about his and Jan Söderqvist's recent book Process and Event. They discuss J…
1 year, 7 months ago
EP 249 Seth Lloyd on Measuring Complexity
Season 1 Episode 249
Jim talks with Seth Lloyd about the many ways of measuring complexity. They discuss the difficulty of measuring complexity, the metabolism of bacteri…
1 year, 7 months ago