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Currents 024: BJ Campbell on the Woke Religion

Posted January 27, 202100:52:51

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...

EP106 Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science

Posted January 25, 202101:24:10

Michael StevensĀ talks to Jim about some of the ideas & stories in his book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science... Michael...

EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness

Posted January 21, 202101:24:25

Christof Koch & Jim have a wide-ranging conversation about the science of consciousness and his book, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness...

EP104 Joe Henrich on WEIRD People

Posted January 19, 202101:05:07

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...

Currents 023: Terry Gainer on the January 6th Riot

Posted January 18, 202100:47:36

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 thisĀ Currents episode,...