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September 2016
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Sep 29, 2016 — Robert Wright & Roger Petersen
Roger’s work on emotions that drive ethnic conflict
Perceived threats that unite Trump supporters
The new identity of the white working class
The “basket of deplorables” and the politics of indignation
How Middle American and liberal elites see each other
Are the perils of our time exaggerated?
Sep 26, 2016 — Josh Summers & JP Sears
Meet JP Sears, the New Age Stephen Colbert
Josh receives ultraspiritual guidance from JP
Shining a light of satire on the “shadow side” of spiritual practices
Where JP’s comedy comes from
Stepping out of the comfort zone, and other spiritual disciplines
Watch Josh transform into an ultra-ultra-post-spiritual guru
Sep 25, 2016 — Robert Wright & David Corn
How is Hillary’s ‘basket of deplorables’ different from Romney’s ’47 percent?’
The root causes of xenophobia
Trump’s policy proposals as ’emotional metaphors’
Struggling to empathize with Trump voters
Political correctness and its opposites
The warping effects of fear
Who marginalized Middle America?
Trumpism after Trump
Sep 24, 2016 — Philip Menchaca & Anthony Silvia
The Gnostic version of enlightenment
Modern Gnosticism’s Christian roots
Aeons, Archons, and the Demiurge
What do Gnostics do?
Salvation and the Gnostic afterlife
A brief history of the Johannite Church
Sep 21, 2016 — Robert Wright & Erik Braun
Erik’s book
The Birth of Insight
and its hero, Ledi Sayadaw
Three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and not-self
Origins and characteristics of American Buddhism
How Burmese politics shaped Western Buddhism
Ledi’s take on how meditation leads to enlightenment
The ethical side of Buddhist practice
Erik’s meditation practice
Sep 19, 2016 — Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
David Hume’s life and work
How Hume influenced Massimo’s thinking
What Hume got right about causality, and what he got wrong
What shapes our moral instincts?
Why Dan regards Arthur Danto so highly…
…and what he thinks Danto got wrong
The end of art history?
Sep 17, 2016 — Nikita Petrov & George Young
What is Russian cosmism?
The religious side of cosmism
Cosmism as a response to the challenges of the 20th century
Nature as a temporary enemy and eternal friend
Pavel Florensky, the Russian da Vinci
Plant life as a spiritual ideal
The father of the Soviet space program, and his weird spirituality
Cosmism and transhumanism: Compare and contrast
Cosmism as a Russian propaganda project
Sep 14, 2016 — Robert Wright & Vincent Horn
Can smartphones help you meditate?
Bringing virtual reality and meditation together
Vincent’s experience teaching meditation online
Circumventing the rational mind via inquiry meditation
Becoming conscious of consciousness
Vincent’s “modular” approach to meditation
Is Vincent enlightened?
Sep 12, 2016 — Robert Wright & Robert George
Why Robby refuses to support Trump
Is history shaped more by social forces or human agency?
Robby gives an insider’s view on why Appalachia is Trump country
The declining influence of religion
How a lack of humility poisons politics
Contempt in current political rhetoric
Robby: Politicians need to get out of the identity politics game
Sep 10, 2016 — Josh Summers & Chip Hartranft
An intro to the yogic philosopher Patañjali and the
Yoga-Sutra
The metaphysics of the
Yoga-Sutra
How does a yogi become awakened?
Comparing yogic and Buddhist teachings
Does yogic philosophy encourage isolation?
Advice for new meditators
Sep 9, 2016 — Robert Wright & Mark Oppenheimer
What Mark learned writing the New York Times “Beliefs” column
Wittgenstein on religion
What does the “spiritual” in “spiritual but not religious” mean?
Crossfit and other secular communities that seem religious
The puzzle of Jewish identity
Being religious but not spiritual
Sep 5, 2016 — Robert Wright & Michael Lynch
Michael’s book,
The Internet of Us
, and “neuromedia”
How Google short circuits our critical faculties
Dangers of the “hive mind”
The echo chamber effect and how to combat it
How tech has—and has not—changed the way we learn
Privacy in the age of big data
Sep 1, 2016 — Robert Wright & Ken Wharton
The future is real, and we could travel there
Reasons to think the future may influence the present
Can retro-causality explain quantum entanglement?
Why our intuitions about time are wrong
Is there a place for free will in a deterministic universe?
The many worlds theory, quantum computers, and events without causes
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