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Steve Sailer is an American journalist and blogger known for his writings on race, genetics, and intelligence. Tyler Cowen has described Sailer as the "most significant neo-reaction thinker today." He has contributed to a variety of publications, sparking both acclaim and controversy. With a background in business and sports writing, Sailer often approaches topics from a data-driven perspective. His work prompts robust discussions in both academic and popular circles.

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Are the labels of "alpha" and "beta" males in the manosphere a reflection of reality or a gross oversimplification? Alex joins us on Aporia to dissect the dual mate hypothesis, also known as strategic pluralism, and its implications for understanding human mating strategies. Far from the clear-cut narratives often spun in certain corners of the internet, Alex explains that the concept has been distorted beyond its scientific origins, leading to some pervasive myths about women’s mating behaviors. We invite you to listen in as we unravel the threads of evolutionary psychology, challenging the notion that women universally adopt short-term mating strategies at the drop of a hat.

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From the overrepresentation of Muslims in UK prisons to the nuances of racial disparities in crime rates, our conversation traverses the delicate terrain of British society and its criminal justice system. We confront the controversial grooming gangs topic, explore the effects of police bias and public perception, and address the criticism aimed at previous analyses of ethnic crime data. With Noah's expertise, we navigate the intricate tapestry of societal views, law enforcement, and the media's role in shaping our understanding of crime.

Rob Kurzban is an evolutionary psychologist and former University of Pennsylvania Professor who now hosts the substack Living Fossils. His book, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite is a great exploration of human evolved moral psychology

We talked about a number of Living Fossils Blogs like "What to do with Emotions", "The Trials of Academic Publishing",  "The Existential Relief of Having Children" and "The Thief of Joy". 

Rob has also written some articles for Aporia. We frequently mentioned the recently passed evolutionary scientist John Tooby, who Rob wrote an obituary for here.

We talked about many different aspects of Rob's academic work:

• The side taking view of morality

• Erasing Race

• Sex, drugs, and moral goals

In this episode, Harvard's Dr. Michael Rosen joins Bo Winegard for a deep exploration of Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History. At issue is the fundamental question of life without God. If God is dead, then how do humans find meaning or justice? Should they accept that the funeral of God is also the funeral of humanism, of objective morality, et cetera—or should they adjust their metaphysical premises while preserving their ideals?

Read a review of Michael’s book here.

In this episode Bo and Noah discuss the ethical maze surrounding AI's integration into our lives and its encroachment upon areas once believed to be exclusively human. They examine the effect of AI on the arts, the possible future where AI surpasses human abilities in intellectual creativity, and the societal shifts that could arise from such changes. From the ethics of using AI in creative fields to the emotional consequences for those who find meaning in their intellectual work, our conversation challenges audiences to reflect on the true value of human expression in the age of technological wonders.

Join us on the Aporia podcast where Bo Winegard and Noah Carl explore free will and moral responsibility. Bo brings to the table a defense of compatibilist free will and retributive justice, challenging those like Robert Sapolsky who believe we should eschew free will and moral agency. The discussion peels back the layers of this philosophical debate, contrasting libertarian views with compatibilist perspectives and explores the complex interplay between human autonomy, moral agency, and the nature of punishment.

Our guest today is Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation. Steve is an entrepreneur and has started successful ventures in embryo selection, forensic genetics and artificial intelligence. Steve Hsu- Steve is a polymath- you can see just how wide his interests are on his blog infoproc. Despite his mathematical chops Steve is great at having conversations- I recommend Aporia listeners check out his podcast Manifold.

During the 2020 racial reckoning, after some controversy, Steve stepped down as Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at Michigan State University. You can see his response to the allegations against him here and his resignation here.

Steve published the first paper showing that polygenic scores can predict phenotype with accuracy- see his paper on height here. Steve and his team also have shown that Genomic Prediction's aneuploidy testing improves pregnancy outcomes. We also talked about my article for Aporia on ethical objections to polygenic screening.

In China, Yousheng, loosely translated as "eugenics" doesn't have a bad connotation- as Steve points out here.

Steve is skeptical about the deleterious effects of polygenic screening or gene editing due to pleiotropy.

Simone Collins, former Aporia guest, was also interviewed on Manifold. She used Genomic Prediction's health index.

We talked about Bryan Caplan's books, The Case Against Education and "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids"

Expanding upon last week's conversation about the race/IQ taboo, Bo Winegard and Noah Carl discuss the ethics of honesty about race differences in cognitive ability. They both agree that candor is better than silence or dishonesty. But they discuss alternative positions sympathetically before forwarding arguments against them.

Is there truly a veil of silence in academic circles when it comes to discussing race and IQ? Noah Carl and Bo Weingard unravel this question by dissecting the assertions of Jackson Jr. and Winston, who deny the existence of such a taboo. They argue controversies in intelligence research stem from poor scholarship rather than an aversion to the topic. Our spirited dialogue challenges their viewpoint, as we scrutinize the nature of academic critique and the undeniable presence of a taboo that, we believe, stifles open conversation on this polarizing subject. By examining our intelligence research controversies database, we aim to separate the wheat from the chaff, identifying where legitimate debate ends and where political or racist rhetoric begins.

Join Walter Veit, University of Reading scholar and pioneering author, as we navigate the intriguing and complex world of animal consciousness. Walter's expertise breathes new life into our understanding of how consciousness could have evolved across species, from the depths of the ocean with the octopus to the humble existence of the worm. Our conversation challenges long-standing human-centric views, uncovering the ethical ramifications of our interactions with animals, and sparking debate over the moral intricacies of artificial sentience, animal farming practices, and the future of lab-grown meat.

Links to Dr. Veit's works:

1. His website: https://walterveit.com/

1. His podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrWalterVeit

2. His paper on clean meat: https://philarchive.org/rec/ANOFWB

3. Can eugenics be defended?: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321981/

4. Is humane slaughter possible?: https://philpapers.org/rec/BROIHA-7

5. Should parents genetically engineer their children?https://philarchive.org/archive/VEISPG

6. Cognitive enhancement and inequality: https://philarchive.org/rec/VEICEA

7. Mentioned in the episode: Do video game characters matter morally? https://reducing-suffering.org/do-video-game-characters-matter-morally/

8. The logic of the larder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replaceability_argument#:~:text=The%20replaceability%20argument%2C%20or%20the,would%20be%20brought%20into%20existence.

9. Antechinus: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-a-little-mammal-has-so-much-sex-that-it-disintegrates

10. Octopus teacher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A

Discover the surprising virtues of holding back in activism with Professor Michael Huemer as we ponder the nuanced realities of political engagement. Our discussion demystifies the often misguided enthusiasm within activism and policy predictions, showcasing how even seasoned experts reveal a humbling track record in forecasting political shifts. Huemer's insights challenge us to reconsider the impact of our actions, comparing societal experimentation to the delicate workings of a living organism, where random tampering can lead to unpredictable outcomes.

Are we truly nurturing Britain's bright young minds, or are we letting them slip through the cracks of an outdated education system? We sat down with the formidable Peter Hitchens, whose insights into the role of grammar schools and academic selection are as sharp as they are provocative. Together, we traverse the shifting landscape of the UK's educational standards, where Peter champions grammar schools as essential for social mobility and intellectual development, particularly for the working class. He recounts his own educational path with refreshing honesty, revealing the gaps in his learning journey and challenging the intellectual decline he perceives in today's society.

Aporia sat down with two giants in the field of intelligence research, Charles Murray and Helmuth Nyborg.

We spoke for nearly an hour about a variety of topics, including:

• Intelligence research, its past, present, and future.

• The smartest intelligence researchers and people Charles and Helmuth have met.

• Nationalism and white supremacy

• How societies are “coming apart”

• Whether America was a doomed project

• Whether multi-ethnic societies can be successful

Unlock the mysteries of the mind with our esteemed guest, Richard Haier, the editor-in-chief of the journal Intelligence. This episode promises to dismantle and dissect the concept of intelligence, bringing you a step closer to understanding the intricate workings of the human brain. We dare to venture into the labyrinth of the mind, tackling controversial discussions surrounding intelligence and its measurement.

We're thrilled to have Matt Goodwin, renowned writer, pollster, and professor of politics as our guest for a thought-provoking analysis of Britain's evolving attitudes towards immigration. Matt offers an in-depth look into the public's liberal shift in opinion over the past two decades, juxtaposed against a growing disquiet about the rapidity and magnitude of immigration. Yet, as he astutely notes, these concerns often don't echo within the elite echelons, potentially burdening the upcoming general election with its effects. With contentious policies like the Rwanda plan and border control under the spotlight, we're inviting you to join in on this insightful dialogue.
Timestamps:
(00:30 - 02:39) British Attitudes Towards Immigration and Politics

(05:51 - 07:04) Immigration's Public View and Elite Influence

(10:52 - 11:56) Immigration and Lack of Integration

(20:44 - 22:26) Housing, Immigration, and Medical School Places

(27:59 - 30:20) The Battle for British Conservatism

(32:12 - 34:40) Opinions on Swela Braverman's Political Career

(36:49 - 39:16) Boris Johnson's Migration Policy Backfire

(41:02 - 42:08) Conservative Immigration Policies and Brexit Effects

(46:09 - 47:28) Reforming British Politics

(56:52 - 59:24) Cultural Diversity and Integration Challenges

How does immigration impact public finances? That's the question we'll be tackling, alongside our guest for this episode, independent researcher Jan van de Beek. With insights from his controversial report, "Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration for Public Finances," Jan brings to our discussion an in-depth understanding of the subject's intricacies. This episode is packed with thought-provoking discourses, tackling the methodology behind calculating the net fiscal effect of immigration and the academic struggles Jan encountered due to his interests.

Timestamps
(03:28 - 04:53) Dissident Economists and Immigration Research (85 Seconds)

(07:57 - 11:31) Dutch Government Analyzes Borderless Welfare State (214 Seconds)

(15:32 - 19:41) Analyze Data Sets, Calculate Fiscal Effect (249 Seconds)

(23:59 - 31:20) Impact of Immigrants' Education and Origin (441 Seconds)

(35:30 - 38:27) Welfare State's Effects on Immigration (177 Seconds)

(51:20 - 58:06) Reducing Education and Labor Disparities (405 Seconds)

(01:02:12 - 01:03:41) Migration Patterns in European Countries (89 Seconds)

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Open Borders and Immigration

(07:09) - The Fiscal Effects of Immigration

(19:21) - Impact of Migrants and Immigration Policies

(28:15) - Assimilation and Cultural Differences in Immigration

(34:30) - Immigrants and IQ in First-World Countries

(45:06) - Cultural Preservation and Immigration Considerations

(54:44) - Debate on Immigration and Its Impact

(01:03:49) - Immigration's Impact on Politics

(01:12:27) - Open Borders and Immigration Benefits

Join us for a fascinating exploration as we're joined by Simone Collins, an entrepreneur, pronatalist mother, and a consistent Twitter presence. Simone offers an enlightening perspective on pronatalism and its relation to eugenics. Listen in as we discuss the complexities of demographic collapse and the role of diversity in cultural survival. Simone shares insights on how certain cultures, like South Koreans and Native Americans, are at risk of cultural mass extinction, and how a pluralistic approach to pronatalism could help.

For Bonus Questions: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/

What kind of society do we create if human nature is no longer a limitation? This captivating question serves as the foundation for our in-depth discussion with British social commentator, Toby Young. We navigate the challenging landscapes of meritocracy, conservatism, and the idea of inherited wealth. Inspired by the perspectives of Toby's father, Michael Young, found in his book 'The Rise of the Meritocracy', we critique the concept, entering a thought-provoking debate on the illusions it creates and its potential to extend the lifeline of capitalism. Our conversation also challenges the notion of entitlement, questions the moral balance of a child's inherited advantage, and scrutinizes the genetic lottery's place in a meritocratic society.

Timestamps:

0:00:00) - Critiquing the Concept of Meritocracy

(0:14:08) - Protecting Liberties and Addressing Socioeconomic Inequality

(0:22:10) - Critiquing Meritocracy and Inherited Wealth

(0:38:12) - Addressing Inequality Through Genetic Redistribution

(0:52:13) - Technology's Impact on Equality and Genetics

(0:59:47) - Debating the Feasibility of Utopian Socialism

(1:06:11) - Human Nature and Genetic Alteration

Joseph Bronski is a Substack writer and researcher working in quantitative sociobiology. He’s also the author of An Empirical Introduction to Youth.

Find him on Twitter/X and YouTube.

Timestamps:

(0:00:00) - Components of Political Agency

(0:13:24) - Political Agency and Union Formation

(0:20:09) - Literature Education's Impact on Society

(0:28:41) - Elite Theory and Frustration With Regurgitation

(0:36:39) - Debate on IQ and Genetic Influence

(0:45:17) - Racial Bias in GWAS Studies Debate

(0:53:01) - Controversial Perspectives on Genetic Traits

(0:56:40) - Controversial Views on Genetic Modification

(1:04:39) - Debunking Historical Idealism and Cultural Evolution

(1:21:00) - Genetic Decline and the Rise of Leftism

(1:32:58) - Culture, Mutational Load, and Leftism

(1:43:10) - Mutational Load's Impact on Lefties' Beliefs

(1:58:49) - Genetic Improvement and Mutational Load

Get access to our Bonus Questions with Heather here: www.aporiamagazine.com

Heather Mac Donald is a conservative commentator, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of books such as The War on Cops, The Diversity Delusion, and When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. She frequently contributes to publications like The Wall Street Journal and City Journal. Find her on Twitter/X here.

Timestamps:

0:06:52 - America's Racial History and White Supremacy

0:11:56 - Inner City Classrooms and Behavioral Differences

0:14:18 - Behavioral Disparities and Lack of Awareness

0:18:54 - Diversity's Impact on STEM Fields

0:26:33 - Race and Intelligence in Academic Hiring

0:31:25 - Racial Preferences and Self-Doubt

0:36:04 - Race Activism and Civil Rights Advocacy

0:39:40 - Media's Racist Coverage and Black Lives

0:59:50 - Defending White Civilization

Aella is an independent researcher and data scientist with a focus on sex and relationships. Before that, Aella ran a popular OnlyFans account, earning as much as $100,000 per month. Subscribe to her Substack here:

Richard Hanania is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Partizan Ship and Ideology, and author of Origins of Woke. Richard shares enlightening perspectives on how pivotal moments in history, like the Civil Rights Act and the advent of technological developments, shaped the contours of the wokeness debate. We dissect the evolution of Civil Rights Law, exploring critical cases like Griggs v Duke Power Company and interpretations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that redefined the concept of potential discrimination.

We explore strategies to combat wokeness, assess its impact on the political landscape, and ponder over the power of winning elections and the role of the judiciary. Finally, we uncover the philosophical roots of Richard Hanania's libertarianism, reconciling his non-libertarian ideas and influences.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Origins of Woke

05:41 - The Evolution of Civil Rights Law

15:39 - Standardized Testing's Impact on Hiring

22:17 - Causes and Impact of Wokeness

33:09 - Causes of the Great Awakening Exploration

43:57 - Corporations and the Origins of Wokeness

51:34 - Trans Issues, Corporations, Foreign Policy

59:21 - Strategies for Combating Wokeness in Government

1:06:02 - Analysis of Wokeness and Political Landscape

1:13:51 - Explaining the Complexity of Libertarianism

We tackle the controversial topic of the morality of colonialism with Anglican priest, theologian, and ethicist, Nigel Bigger. Throughout this discussion, we trace the trajectory of the British Empire from its inception through imperialism and colonialism, and its influence across Ireland, North America, India, and Africa. As we compare the British Empire with Nazi Germany, we grapple with questions of ethics, genocide, and the role of private interest groups like the East India Company.

Timestamps: 00:00 - The Morality of Colonialism 22:31 - Comparing British Empire and Nazi Germany 30:04 - The Evils of the British Empire 35:44 - Evaluating British Empire Violence 43:53 - Colonialism's Impact on Economic Development 49:17 - British Empire's Impact on Africa 1:04:49 - Debates on Statues and Colonial Legacy 1:12:59 - Contemporary Politics and Reparations for Slavery 1:20:26 - Reforming Weak States Through Foreign Aid

The final video from our 2023 ISIR series is a brilliant interview with Professor Greg Clark, one of the most important hereditarian scholars. We mainly talk about Greg’s groundbreaking study published in June: The inheritance of social status: England, 1600 to 2022. It’s worth quoting at length:

There is widespread belief across the social sciences in the ability of social interventions and social institutions to significantly influence rates of social mobility. In England, 1600 to 2022, we see considerable change in social institutions across time. Half the population was illiterate in 1800, and not until 1880 was compulsory primary education introduced. Progressively after this, educational provision and other social supports for poorer families expanded greatly. The paper shows, however, that these interventions did not change in any measurable way the strong familial persistence of social status across generations.

Greg is a Danish National Research Foundation Professor in Economics at Southern Denmark University (Odense), as well as a Chair at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. He’s also a Visiting Professor in the Economic History Department at LSE. This year, he became a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.

As we discussed in the interview, Greg has a penchant for Hemingway puns (something that got him in trouble) when it comes to book titles. You should buy both of them. And follow him on Twitter/X.

Our magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Steve Sailer is an American journalist and blogger known for his writings on race, genetics, and intelligence. Tyler Cowen has described Sailer as the "most significant neo-reaction thinker today." He has contributed to a variety of publications, sparking both acclaim and controversy. With a background in business and sports writing, Sailer often approaches topics from a data-driven perspective. His work prompts robust discussions in both academic and popular circles.

Read our magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Christopher Rufo is a writer, filmmaker, and activist. His work is organized around a simple mission: to challenge and then overthrow the left-wing ideological regime that has dominated American life for a generation. Subscribe to his Substack, follow him on Twitter, and get a copy of his latest book: America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. https://rufo.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063227533?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_S303678PFEN5J9HFMKBN

Read our magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Agnes Callard is an American philosopher and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. New Yorker piece: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/agnes-callard-profile-marriage-philosophy

John Michael Bailey is an American psychologist, behavioural geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University best known for his work on the etiology of sexual orientation. His research indicates that sexual orientation is heavily influenced by biology and male homosexuality is most likely inborn. Bailey wrote The Man Who Would Be Queen, a book intended to explain the biology of male sexual orientation and gender to a general audience, focusing on gender nonconforming boys, gay men and transgender women.

Ed West is a journalist, essayist, and author.

He has one of the best Substacks out there: https://www.edwest.co.uk/

Sander van der Linden is Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. His research interests center around the psychology of human judgment and decision-making. In particular, he is interested in the social influence and persuasion process and how people are influenced by (mis)information and gain resistance to persuasion through psychological inoculation. He is also interested in the study of fake news, media effects, social networks, and belief systems (e.g., conspiracy theories), as well as the emergence of social norms, polarization, reasoning about evidence, and public understanding of risk and uncertainty. His research spans from social psychology to cognitive science using a variety of techniques, from virtual reality to survey and lab studies to computational social science and large-scale (online) interventions.

His book FOOLPROOF: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity (HarperCollins/WW Norton, www.foolproofbook.com) was listed by the BBC, Cosmopolitan, Apple, Men's Health, and Next Big Idea's as one of the most anticipated non-fiction books of 2023.

He has published around 150 papers and is ranked among the top 1% of all social scientists worldwide (Clarivate ISI Highly Cited Researcher) and among the top 2% across all scientific fields.

Cory Clark received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. She worked as the Director of Academic Engagement for Heterodox Academy and is now the Director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project and a Visiting Faculty Scholar in The Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

​Her hobbies include phojography (taking pictures while jogging), phodography (taking pictures of her dog), solo travel to beautiful or weird and murdery places, and planning for her future beet farm/live music venue/goat sanctuary, to be called Beets, Beats, & Bleats.

Dr. Russell T. Warne earned his Bachelor’s of Science degree in psychology from Brigham Young University in 2007 and his PhD in educational psychology (with an emphasis in research, measurement, and statistics) from Texas A&M University in 2011. Between 2011 and 2022, he taught at Utah Valley University and obtained tenure and the rank of associate professor. Currently, Dr. Warne serves on the editorial board for Intelligence. He was the associate editor for the Journal for the Education of the Gifted and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of School Psychology, Gifted Child Quarterly, and the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Dr. Warne has published over 60 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of the acclaimed undergraduate statistics textbook Statistics for the Social Sciences: A General Linear Model Approach. His book, In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2020.

Paul Bloom is a Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Gavan Tredoux is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a mathematician and statistician by training, with extensive interests in the History of Science (galton.org, burtoniana.org). He was a Senior Scientist in Research and Development at Xerox PARC, and currently works in the Data Science field. Follow him on Twitter here.

Without doubt, this is one of our most educational and fascinating podcasts so far. We hope you enjoy.

Our magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ William Costello is a Ph.D. student of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is part of Dr. David Buss’ lab. In 2021 William graduated with distinction with an MSc in Psychology, Culture and Evolution from Brunel University London. William’s Master’s dissertation was some of the world’s first empirical research investigating the psychology of incels (involuntary celibates).

Aporia Magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and the New York Times Bestselling author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders, and Labor Econ Versus the World. In this podcast, Diana speaks with Bryan about many topics (timestamps below), but centres the conversation around his book Don’t Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. You should subscribe to Bryan’s superb Substack: https://betonit.substack.com/

Louise Perry is a journalist and author based in London, UK. She is a columnist for UnHerd and a features writer for the Daily Mail. Louise hosts Maiden Mother Matriarch, a podcast about sexual politics, which is available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast platforms. Subscribe to her Substack here: https://louiseperry.substack.com/

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Alex Kaschuta is a writer, cultural critic, and podcast host from Romania. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, the American Mind, Vice, and other outlets. She is the host of the Subversive Podcast, which you can find here: https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/

Prof David Geary is a cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist interested in mathematical learning and sex differences. He is currently a Curators’ Professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:44 Why do we have sexes and what are they?

3:20 Could we have more sexes? 

4:10 The evolutionary logic behind two sexes

5:55 What is sexual selection and why does it lead to sex differences?

7:05 Differential parental investment strategies

9:20 Humans aren’t as unique as we like to think

10:27 Bo poses a theory about sexual selection 

13:07 Questioning Geoffrey Miller’s The Mating Mind paradigm 

16:24 Lineage enhancement 

18:22 The Danny DeVito problem

19:22 Status versus resources

22:02 Sex differences in the mind

24:45 Most important average differences

27:10 Dodging and throwing objects

31:18 The patriarchy critique 

34:23 Feminism as an elite female ideology

35:58 Trans & the new gender ideology

40:00 Natal girls identifying as transgender

42:58 Is transgender a real category?

49:20 The stupidity of children

51:20 What about transgender suppression? 

53:00 Bonus questions

Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy attended and graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry in 1975. She then attended Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in Physiology and Psychology. Wax then went to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School, before doing a residency in neurology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and working as a consulting neurologist at a clinic in the Bronx and for a medical group in Brooklyn. She completed her legal education at Columbia Law School whilst working part-time.

Wax has argued 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court. She received both the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2015, she received a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, making her one of three Penn Law professors to have received the award in 20 years.

In 2017, the mob came for her tenure. In 2018, she was stripped of her teaching duties. You can support Amy’s fight below:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/amy-wax-legal-defense-fund

https://amywaxdefense.org/

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:32 How did Amy’s scientific training influence her opinions

2:54 ‘The beating heart of wokeism is race’ 

7:05 Asians & immigration

12:37 Jews and other immigrants 

23:15 Have we reached a tipping point with immigration?

26:20 Sex education should be banned

29:14 Respectable girls did not have sex 

30:37 Are shame and stigma good?

32:50 Neo-trads

36:07 Amy’s relationship advice her children 

39:10 Your children are not you

41:52 How Amy planned her life

44:55 Jewish duty? 

47:10 Dinner table talk about the West

49:15 Gratitude for our ancestors 

50:15 The non-negotiables of dating 

53:10 Politics is corroding dating 

55:18 Feminization of the academy 

1:04:20 Should we have male-only universities?

1:06:34 How you can help Amy! 

1:11:08 Sneak preview of bonus questions 

Nathan Cofnas is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He works in the philosophy of biology (very broadly construed) and ethics, and the intersection of these fields. He is particularly interested in scientific and ethical controversies connected with evolution-informed social science.  Nathan aspires to do philosophy that is continuous with science. Most of his work deals with methodological issues at the border between science and philosophy, and about half of his publications are in science journals. Nathan studied at Oxford (DPhil, Philosophy), Cambridge (MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science), Lingnan, and Columbia (BA, Philosophy). 

Nathan's article: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed

HxA reply: https://heterodoxacademy.org/hxannouncements/a-letter-to-our-members-and-supporters-responding-to-accusations-against-hxa/

0:00 Intro
2:30 How difficult it was for Nathan to publish the article
4:14 Defining heterodoxy
6:35 John McWhorter
9:52 Amy Wax
11:40 HxA’s reply to Nathan
18:00 What HxA should do
21:22 Isn’t it good that HxA engaged with the criticism?
23:59 Who is the unnamed scholar HxA blocked for membership?
27:35 American Renaissance isn’t a hate group
28:46 Why is discussing race important?
36:27 Haidt knows the truth
37:47 The irony of Jews endorsing the racism thesis
39:52 What does Nathan think of Rufo and DeSantis?
46:00 The biggest problem
47:25 Ways out of the abyss
53:24 Academia selects for timidity
54:38 Will the genetic revolution change things?
56:32 Promo for bonus questions

Nathan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathancofnas?lang=en 

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Diana Fleischman is an American evolutionary psychologist. Her field of research includes the study of disgust, human sexuality, and hormones and behavior. Diana will be hosting her own show with us, so we thought you’d like to get to know her!

Diana’s Substack, Twitter, and website.

Adrian Wooldridge is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Adrian was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College. Before joining Bloomberg, Adrian worked at The Economist for over 20 years. He is the author of several books, including Capitalism in America: A History, co-authored with Alan Greenspan, and, most recently, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.

Enter our Dysgenics Award competition:  https://www.ideassleepfuriously.com/p/the-first-dysgenics-awards

Malcolm Collins is a neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur-turned-VC-turned-education innovator. Along with his wife Simone, he is one of Amazon's top 100 best-selling non-fiction writers. Learn more about their work below.  

The Pragmatist Foundation: https://pragmatist.guide 

The Collins Institute for the Gifted: https://collinsinstitute.org

Malcolm and Simone's latest books:  

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatists-Guide-Governance-optimizing-governance/dp/B0BSJ5SXHM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Simone+H+Collins&qid=1674304558&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorr 

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatists-Guide-Crafting-Religion-Demographic/dp/B0BSJ5SXK2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Simone+H+Collins&qid=1674304558&s=audible&sr=1-2-catcorr 

Timestamps:  

2:46 Malcolm explains why he and his wife did embryo selection 

7:18 Do people realise what they’re arguing for? 

10:15 Overlooking positive pleiotropy & other bad arguments 

17:18 Malcolm’s theory of the cultural super virus 

18:25 Malcolm's general pessimism & falling birth rates 

22:02 The case for optimism: religiosity, ritual, and exogenous motivators 

23:47 Should we talk about the dysgenic effect on IQ? 

24:44 The role of religion in this brave new world 

26:55 Religion as a cultural software package 

30:18 Malcolm’s plan to save the world! 

33:28 Malcolm's idea of “descendant worship” & his thoughts on belief 

34:28 Can artificial beliefs really take hold? 

38:35 Is our current progress a blip & how a neo-Byzantium can survive 

41:08 How many people would actually use genetic technology?  

45:20 The ick factor of genetic tech 

46:42 The costs and pains of IVF  

52:40 Malcolm's 'theological mandate' to create a technophilic culture 

54:35 Malcolm and Simone's gifted school and thoughts on improving education 

1:04:17 Taking the precautionary principle when introducing new technology to children 

1:06:32 A critique Malcolm respects 

1:08:37 Malcolm’s recommended reading 

1:09:59 Malcolm’s most controversial opinion

Auron Macintyre is a columnist and host at The Blaze. He also writes on Substack. Auron rose to prominence as a “dissident right” thinker, making popular YouTube videos on topics from what’s come to be called elite theory.

Timestamps:

1:17 Auron introduces himself

3:20 Racial imposter syndrome

6:03 Whites looking for valid status

8:27 "Nonsense as a uniform”

12:42 The failure of the Intellectual Dark Web

16:18 Steelmanning the popularity of Jordan Peterson

18:40 The Overton Window of Intellectuals

22:40 Controlled opposition without a controller

24:31 What does victory look like in the face of total institutional capture?

27:53 Secessionism, federalism, and societal breakdown

30:40 Cultural decline vs material progress

36:12 Right-wing tensions

40:00 Our role in the cycle of civilisation

43:03 Reconciling theology and techno-optimism

52:36 Can biotech be deployed responsibly in our current political climate?

55:15 What will post-liberalism look like?

57:30 If Auron could only undo one aspect of post-60s culture, what would it be?

Garett Jones is Associate Professor of Economics and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.  His first book, published in 2015 by Stanford University Press, is entitled Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own, and was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. His second book, also with Stanford, published in 2020, is entitled 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less, and was reviewed in The Economist.

Garett's most controversial opinion: https://www.ideassleepfuriously.com/p/garett-jones-most-controversial-opinion

Razib Khan is a master of decoding ancient DNA to tell fascinating stories about our history and heritage.

Timestamps: 

2:39: Three mindblowing facts from ancient DNA research 

6:10 Will it be possible to know the average IQ of classical Athens? 

8:35 How much signal do we lose if the population is representative?  

10:15 Is there really more genetic diversity within Africa? 

15:02 Is gene-culture co-evolution a kind of bottleneck or sieve? 

18:45 Fighting between hunter-gatherers and farmers 

24:15 Psychopaths as a development of mass society & the need for security 

27:20 Dysgenics and the cyclical theory of civilizations 

40:40 Modalities of innovation 

44:15 The timeline for genetic engineering, speciation, and runaway selection 56:10 People are masturbating 

57:00 Is immortality on the cards? 

1:05:00 Is this the last century of technological civilization? 

1:08:20 Changing aesthetic standards, the need for wisdom, and werewolves 

1:15:43 When will we be able to talk about group differences freely?

 1:16:52 Will conservatives inherit the Earth?

Richard is President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, whose Substack output you can find here.

He also has his own Substack. His academic interests include nuclear policy, American grand strategy, political psychology, the politics of the Middle East, and international law. In today’s podcast we do a deep dive into his most interesting articles.

You can find him on Twitter here.

Timestamps:  

2:31 Richard’s background and journey through academia

6:07 Is academia really that bad? 

9:15 Is international relations a lost cause? 

12:55 Why women’s tears win 

16:20 Do conservatives like foreign policy because they get to be macho? 

18:50 Should most women leave the academy and have children? 

22:50 Should most people walk away from the academy? 

28:25 Why is understanding civil rights important for fighting wokeism? 

32:00 Is wokeness inevitably downstream from civil rights law? 

41:40 Blank slatism and left-wing conformism 

46:00 The importance of compartmentalising beliefs 

47:03 Richard’s psychological theory of the culture wars 

52:25 Why does Richard have any faith in democracy? 

54:25 How much is wokeism orchestrated? 

1:02:30 Is democracy the only weapon the right have left? 

1:09:30 Why does everything move left? 

1:11:40 Why does Richard think wokeness isn’t a religion?

Last week, we hosted the first ISF livestream with Bo Winegard and Jonathan Anomaly. It was a fantastic conversation loosely based around the topic on what enquiries into human nature can tell us about political philosophy. 

Prof Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London. He’s the author of several books including Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Today, we’re speaking with Eric about his two reports for the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology: 

Born This Way? The Rise of LGBT as a Social and Political Identity 

Diverse and Divided: A Political Demography of American Elite Students

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Leandra Ramm is an American singer and actress known for opera and musical theatre. She is an offspring of the Repository for Germinal Choice (otherwise known as "The Genius Sperm Bank").   

My own story: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com/p/on-discovering-that-i-was-sperm-donor#details 

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Timestamps:  

0:00 Intro 

2:26 How I heard about Leandra’s story 

3:57 Leandra’s origin story 

7:57 Finding the genius sperm bank and the process 

11:55 Leandra’s half-siblings' origins 

13:55 Family dynamics 

18:55 Leandra’s school experience with a high IQ 

22:15 How Leandra’s intelligence helped her 

28:40 Leandra’s siblings’ stories 

33:15 How did Leandra find her biological dad and half-siblings? 

38:00 Leandra’s thoughts on genetics  

39:55 Leandra’s dad’s life 

41:40 Leandra’s thoughts on genetic engineering 

44:35 The importance of biodiversity  

46:35 Would Leandra support a genius sperm bank today? 

48:15 The lack of regulation  

50:03 Why Robert Graham started the project 

50:45 The dangers of no regulation 

52:40 What else did Leandra find out about the sperm bank? 

54:30 Gratitude for modern science and new-found family

Simon Webb is an historian, writer, and host of the popular YouTube show, History Debunked. He has written about slavery, World War I, and even fairies. Check out his channel and books.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:27: What historical event should we all know about and why?

4:50 Why does Simon think democracy isn't fit for purpose?

7:35 The ironies of Brexit and immigration

10:04 Does learning history really change you?

11:13 Homeschooling's power

17:55 Is there potential for a post-Woke politics anytime soon?

19:25 Simon's meta-ethical view & religion

21:15 What is Simon's most controversial belief?

29:03 Guilt by association & social media

30:27 Why we should talk about group differences

32:00 Why would people want to change the status quo?

38:30 The primal fear of discussing group differences

41:00 Schooling in historical context and making changes

44:00 Will homeschooling become more popular?

45:15 Is immigration still a concern for the British public?

49:38 Should young people leave?

50:49 Historical inaccuracies in film and TV

56:13 Simon's favourite books

56:52 No regrets

57:12 What does it mean to be truly educated?

Today I'm speaking with the Australian writer and retired lawyer, Helen Dale. Helen is best known for writing The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in The Holocaust. The book was published in in 1994 and won the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's top literary prize. Helen became the award's youngest winner. However, controversy ensued after it became known that Helen had been trolling the diversity obsessed literary establishment by claiming to be Ukrainian and basing the book on interviews with her relatives (she'd published under the pseudonym “Helen Demidenko”).

Today, however, I'm speaking with Helen about something much more personal: growing up gifted. Helen has, in her own words, a “freakishly high” IQ. As someone very interested in giftedness, I thought I could pose some of the most asked questions on Quora to Helen about living life with an IQ at the 99.9th percentile. The conversation is wide-ranging, so you might like to make use of the timestamps in the YouTube video. I’ve also pasted them below.

Links to Helen’s work:

Helen has authored three works of fiction. She writes for Law & Liberty (you can find the full archive of her articles here). And make sure to subscribe to Helen’s Substack here.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

4:05 Helen discusses her early infamy

14:30 The right to write & elite overproduction

16:08 How “The System” works & going into law

18:00 How Helen and I met & the big brains of headline writers

19:45 Helen’s “lived experience” with a high IQ

22:35 The intricacies of Latin & Greek

25:10 On being challenged intellectually in law

27:45 Professionals are often smarter than academics

32:58 Helen’s thoughts on education policy and her own schooling

37:15 The value of school discipline & the Michaela School

43:13 What is school for?

53:54 American ignorance & social class

58:48 The duty of the gifted 1:01:05 On Taleb’s critique of IQ

1:07:30 Helen’s obsession with law

1:11:32 Who’s the smartest person Helen has met?

1:13:28 Why piloting is so “g loaded”

1:16:50 How maths students are ranked at Cambridge

1:18:19 Preemies and left-handers

1:19:50 Is it lonely at the right-hand tail?

1:22:20 Organising the Jewish lobby in Australia & being right-wing

1:26:18 Australia’s gift to the world

1:31:30 The law & embryo selection

1:38:20 Authoritarian states creating super athletes & soldiers

1:39:02 Helen talks about her speculative fiction books

1:41:20 Competing with other countries

1:44:14 The biggest legal challenges for new genetic technology

1:50:42 What does it mean to be truly educated?

Noah Carl is a British sociologist and independent researcher. He currently writes for a number of outlets, but his most consistent output can be found on Substack (link below). Apologies in advance if this conversation isn't up to the usual standard, Noah actually messaged me out of the blue asking if I wanted to do a podcast, so I only had an hour or two to put some questions together. We only had an hour, but I think there’s a lot in here. Some of the spicier topics we touch on include: dysgenics, global IQ differences, and whether the West should "recolonise" parts of Africa.

Noah's Substack: https://noahcarl.substack.com/

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This week I’m speaking with Parker Settecase, a philosopher and host of the Parker’s Pensées podcast, which you can find here:  https://www.youtube.com/c/ParkersPens... I really enjoy Parker’s show. He interviews fascinating philosophers and theologians and gets deep into the weeds with them. Parker is also a Christian, so I thought it’d be interesting to chat about how his views have evolved. We also discuss the problem of evil, free will, and whether my rationalism is self-defeating. Enjoy!  You can you can find Parker on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/trendsettercase 

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Torill Kornfeldt is a Swedish science journalist, author and speaker focusing on biology and biotechnology. She is the author of two books. The first, The Re-Origin of Species, discusses the reconstruction of extinct animals using gene modifications. However, in this conversation we mostly speak about Torill’s second book, The Unnatural Selection of Us. We talk about the power of CRISPR, why China is winning the tech race, designer babies, longevity, and the obligatory mention of Jurassic Park.  

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Nicholas Colangelo is a world-famous scholar in gifted education. He is the author of numerous articles on counselling gifted students and acceleration. He has edited three editions of the Handbook of Gifted Education. He co-authored the famous national report “A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students. 

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What you’re about to watch or listen to is my most important podcast so far. Today I’m speaking with Zac Kriegman.  Zac is a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters, perhaps the world’s most important news organisation. He’s a former director because he was fired after sharing research on the company's internal social media platform showing that American police killed more unarmed white people than black people as a proportion of the population. This wasn’t just one statistic thrown carelessly into a group chat. Zac compiled a 12,000 word report with the rigour you’d expect from a director of data science earning 350,000 a year. In that report, he also pointed out that the Black Lives Matter movement are probably responsible for the deaths of thousands. He also noted Thomson’s biased coverage when it came to BLM.  As you can imagine, several outspoken white knights pounced on Zac’s bravery. And soon he was no more. Zac is obviously taking legal action and you can support him in that fight, too. This case really is a litmus test for America and the western world. A billion people read or see Reuters news every day. And as you’re about to hear, they aren’t exactly getting the impartiality Reuters claim to offer.   Apologies for the slight hiss on the recording today, but without further ado, I give you my most important guest to date: Zac Kriegman.

Zac's Substack: https://kriegman.substack.com/

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John Jost talks about his childhood, education, cowboys and Indians, the psychology of political conservatism and system justification, the horseshoe theory of political orientation, ideological asymmetries, political polarization, capitalism, fear of socialism, the existence of racial microaggressions, being misunderstood by the left and the right, and the work of Ezra Klein, Mahzarin Banaji, Joshua Greene, Kurt Gray, Dan Kahan, Jonathan Haidt, and Jordan Peterson.  

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Peter is a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and a PhD candidate at Sheffield University. He is a multi-award-winning author for Bloomsbury Education and author and editor for Crown House Publishing on The Philosophy Foundation Series of books. He is a commissioning editor for The Philosophers' Magazine.  Peter read philosophy at University College London and Birkbeck College, completing his MA in 2004. He has been working with children in education since 1993 and has been doing philosophy with children since 2002. To read more about him and his work, click here: 

https://www.philosophy-foundation.org/executive-officers

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Emil Kirkegaard is a social scientist and prominent blogger focussing on a range of topics deemed controversial (and therefore interesting), from intelligence, to crime and migration. He publishes a very popular blog and Substack (links below).

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/

 https://kirkegaard.substack.com/ 

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Bo Winegard received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Florida State University in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Roy Baumeister. Winegard became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marietta College in 2018; he was fired in 2020. In this podcast, Bo shares his story. We talk about all things controversial in psychology and much, much more. 

You can find Bo's writing here: https://quillette.com/author/bo-winegard/

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John Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.  His six major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994), Running on Emptiness (2002), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005), Twilight of the Machines (2008), and Why hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015).  

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Jason Miller is an American communications strategist, political adviser and CEO, best known as the chief spokesman for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and transition of Donald Trump. He was a Senior Adviser to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. In March 2021, Miller became a contributor for Newsmax. Miller left his position as Trump's spokesman in June 2021 to become the CEO of GETTR, a micro-blogging social network with a conservative user base.

Ed Dutton is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Poland. Find out more about him here: https://edwarddutton.com/ 

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David Roberts studied undergraduate International Relations and Politics with an emphasis on the developing world. Inspired by a tutor, he undertook and completed a PhD on peacebuilding in Cambodia, at the time of biggest ever post-Cold War United Nations peacekeeping operation. His research centred on why the Khmer Rouge guerrillas refused to participate in the peacebuilding operation, and he followed his thesis up by locating and interviewing senior Khmer Rouge officers in hiding in northwestern Cambodia. He also worked on research programmes in Viet Nam, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. A central leitmotif of his work has been the study of power and oppression, informed intellectually by the likes of Foucault and critical and radical feminists like Spivak and hooks from the global north and south.  After 25 years of research-informed teaching deriving from fieldwork in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, David has turned his attention to teaching-informed research in multimedia learning and visual pedagogies. David presently teaches specialist modules and courses on business entrepreneurship in postconflict spaces and on visual communication. He was appointed Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2017 and runs a consultancy that supports multimedia learning development and training in universities in the UK, Europe and US.  

Find more about David's work below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/db-roberts-43154713/

https://www.davidrobertsonline.org/professional

Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. His research and teaching interests include political violence, pacifism and nonviolence studies, anarchist studies, political thought, politics and religion, and critical security studies. Read Alex's article here: 

https://theconversation.com/ukraine-nonviolent-resistance-is-a-brave-and-often-effective-response-to-aggression-178361

Dr. Joseph Renzulli is a leader and pioneer in gifted education and applying the pedagogy of gifted education teaching strategies to all students. The American Psychological Association named him among the 25 most influential psychologists in the world. Dr. Renzulli received the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Award for Innovation in Education, considered by many to be “the Nobel” for educators, and was a consultant to the White House Task Force on Education of the Gifted and Talented.

Joseph S. Renzulli is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, where he also served as director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. His research has focused on the identification and development of creativity and giftedness in young people and on organizational models and curricular strategies for total school improvement. A focus of his work has been on applying the strategies of gifted education to the improvement of learning for all students. Dr. Renzulli currently leads the Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development.

Dr. Renzulli’s ground breaking work on The Three Ring Conception of Giftedness, the Enrichment Triad Model, Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM), Curriculum Compacting and Differentiation were pioneering efforts in the 1970s. He has contributed hundreds of books, book chapters, articles, and monographs to the professional literature, many of which have been translated to other languages. Dr. Renzulli’s enrichment-based and differentiated teaching model has been utilized by more than 35,000 teachers from around the world since 1978.

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist and prominent proponent of Blue Labour. He is a regular columnist for UnHerd.

Peter Hitchens is an English journalist and author. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. Peter has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, and the New Statesman. Peter has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory. In this interview we talk about education, grammar schools, and the family.   ---------  I can only continue to do this with your support. If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep DISCORD:   https://discord.gg/gQwFE7a77H

Matt Wilson is the author of Rules Without Rulers: The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism. He is currently doing his second PhD at the University of Nottingham. The book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it would mean creating new forms of social organisation which, whilst offering more freedom than state-capitalism, would nonetheless still entail certain limits to freedom. In making this argument, a secondary point is made, which highlights the books originality; namely, that, whilst anarchism is defended by an increasing number of radicals, the reality of what an anarchist society might look like, and the problems that such a society might encounter, are rarely discussed or acknowledged, either in academic or activist writings.  If you want to support alternative media, you can do so for just $1 on Patreon and get your name in the credits as well as my heart ❤️ (+ other goodies):  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Prof Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University and he reviews books for the The Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. We mainly talk about his magnum opus, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, which won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize and the British Council Prize. In that book, Jonathan revealed that the British working classes were far more well read than had previously been thought.  ---------------------  

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Anthony Magnabosco is a skeptic, well-known for his YouTube channel where he practices Street Epistemology (SE). Like a modern day Socrates he stops random people to have conversations about factual claims they make, in order to see if they have a good reason to believe them. His calm demeanour and ability to set people at ease makes for a wonderful antidote to a world of "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS SJW Feminist". As Anthony says in the interview, he distinguishes between beliefs and people -- an approach which anybody who interacts with him can attest to. In this interview we talk about the tools you can use to help deconstruct arguments (both your own and other people's) and the future of the "sense making" movement.   Anthony's channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/magnabos... His Twitter:  https://twitter.com/magnabosco Read more about Anthony here:   https://intellectinterviews.com/2020/... Street epistemology subreddit:  https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetEpiste... ---------  I got good Tweets, too:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep Support the show on Patreon and get your name in the credits as well as my heart ❤️ (+ other goodies like early access to videos and Zoom calls with myself):  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine. He's probably most famous for his 2017 book The Road to Somewhere in which  he argued that a fault line existed in Britain between "Somewheres", those people firmly connected to a specific community which consists of about half the population, and "Anywheres", those usually living in cities, who are socially liberal and well educated, the latter being only a minority of about 20% to 25% of the total population, but who in fact had "over-ruled" the attitudes of the majority. This divide is something which is by no means unique to Britain, it's highly relevant to America with both Brexit and Trump being a revolt led by the Somewheres.   In this conversation, David and I talk about his most recent book, Head Hand Heart, in which he argues that a good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to cognitive skills, manual skills, and caring skills. David argues that the recent decades in the West have seen far too much emphasis on rewarding cognitive ability as the gold standard of human esteem. For David, readjusting this balance is the story of the struggle for status and dignity in the 21st century.

Macer Gifford is the pseudonym of a British former currency trader who travelled to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG militia against the Islamic State group. Macer went to fight ISIS not just once but twice. First in 2015 and again in 2016. In 2020, he released a book called Fighting Evil about his experience in Syria. 

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Eric Schwitzgebel is an American philosopher and professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind and the nature of belief. Support the show with a dollar/pound per video and get your name in the credits and my heart:   https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour.  She completed her PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Leor’s doctoral research, funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, explored the psychological processes underpinning political, religious, and nationalistic beliefs.

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Loughborough University. He is the author of Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, and Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now.  

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Kurt Gray is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. Kurt is a strong critic of Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). In this podcast we detail what MFT gets right and wrong, and why Dyadic Morality is a better cognitive theory of the moral mind.

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Jon Roozenbeek is the Google Jigsaw Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on inoculation theory. Aside from this, he works on media theory, content analytics, social media, the dynamics of online debate, and development of the mass media landscape in Eastern Ukraine. He co-developed the award-winning Fake News Game, Bad News, and coordinates the testing of this game. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his research won the 2020 Frank Prize in Public Interest Communications from the University of Florida College of Journalism.