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Apr 26, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
- How the new media landscape exacerbates tribalism
- Can science and reason help combat tribalism?
- Why tribal behavior comes naturally to humans
- Want to succeed on social media? Try ridicule and moral condemnation!
- Why virtual reality may not help you understand the plight of others
- Trump’s masterful exploitation of empathy
- If a magic therapy “cured” Harvey Weinstein, would punishment still be necessary?
- Why social science is, and will stay, liberal
Apr 23, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Richard Wrangham
- Richard’s new book, The Goodness Paradox
- Why Jane Goodall’s view of chimpanzees took a turn for the darker
- Proactive violence (a human specialty) vs. reactive violence
- Richard’s “execution hypothesis” for how early humans dealt with violent males
- Bob offers an alternative explanation for the domestication of our species
- How our cousins the bonobos became nicer than our cousins the chimps
- Richard’s explanation for the evolution of moral sense
- Is war a part of human nature?
Apr 19, 2019 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
- Alfred North Whitehead and his “process philosophy”
- “Process theology,” which features a changing, non-omnipotent God
- A God of persuasion, not coercion
- Whitehead’s conception of divinity
- Whitehead’s God and Christian theology
- Waiting, or not waiting, for God
- Beauty and the divine
- How Whitehead’s God solves the problem of evil
Apr 16, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Geoffrey Miller
- What is polyamory?
- The evolutionary origins of romantic jealousy
- How polyamorous couples manage jealousy, insecurity, and time
- Bob extols the benefits of long-term monogamy
- Geoffrey’s advice for young men who can’t find romantic partners
- Do smaller polyamorous communities get a little, well, incestuous?
- Why are fewer young men having sex regularly?
- Geoffrey: The ethics of polyamory set it apart from casual dating
Apr 12, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & B. D. McClay
- B. D.’s essay on mononucleosis and gnosticism
- What the ancient gnostics believed about body and spirit
- Fingernail clippings and other problems with bodily resurrection
- Pros and cons of living in a body
- Did George H.W. Bush get to walk out of his wheelchair at the gates of Heaven?
- B. D. explains the Children’s Crusade of 1212
- The Children’s Crusade’s contemporary resonances
- Queer Eye, the reality show that makes you feel good about humanity
Apr 10, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
- What explains the sharp divide between analytic and continental philosophy?
- Continental philosophy’s association with romanticism and fascism
- How Richard Rorty, Crispin’s dissertation advisor, bridged the gap between the two schools
- Heidegger’s skepticism of science
- Crispin articulates the divide in terms of substance and style
- How continental philosophy challenges the primacy of argument
Apr 8, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Paul Shapiro
- Paul Shapiro’s new book, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
- Why conventional meat production is inefficient and unsustainable (not to mention cruel)
- Recent innovations in lab-cultured protein, fat, and even leather
- Will cultured meat ever become affordable?
- How plant-based “meat” and “dairy” have gained market share in the past decade
- Paul: History won’t look kindly on our treatment of animals
- How Paul’s company is working to reduce meat consumption
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