As you probably heard me announce at the end of last week's New World Next Week, I'm going to be taking a couple of weeks off to get caught up on some of the website administration, get a head start on some of the projects I'm working on for the latter half of the...
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5 Important Lessons Absolutely No One Will Learn From Iowa
In case you missed this week's insanity in Iowa (and if you did, good for you!), here is the entire debacle in one ridiculously long run-on sentence: The Iowa Democratic Party thought it would be a really swell idea to set the tone of the Democratic primary season by...
Did Russia Just Undergo Regime Change?
Good morning, students. It's time for Media Literacy 101. Are you sitting comfortably? Then let's begin. Have you ever heard of Betteridge's Law of Headlines? It is a journalistic maxim, formulated by Ian Betteridge, holding that "any headline which ends in a question...
Interview 1439 – Davi Barker on Authoritarian Sociopathy
Davi Barker of The Black Sale joins us to discuss his book, Authoritarian Sociopathy. We talk about the various psychological experiments that have been done in the past to show people's propensity to obey or disobey authority, and Barker proposes his own experiment...
Japan’s Emperor is Abdicating. Here’s What It Means.
Sometime this weekend, the cabinet members of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will be locked in a room without communication devices of any kind. Not so much as a smartwatch will remain as they engage in deliberations, and they will stay locked in that room...
Do Humans Have Free Will? Not If Big Tech Wins!
Do humans have free will? That question has puzzled philosophers for millennia and has generated fierce debates. Perhaps the only thing more contentious than the question are the implications of its answer. If man has no free will, then how can there be moral...
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You Anymore
OK, I've got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? OK, no problem. You know that old anti-war cliché about "Suppose They Gave A War And No One Came"? Well, that slogan might be closer to becoming reality than you think. Learn all...
Episode 339 – Meet Paul Ehrlich, Pseudoscience Charlatan
Renowned scientist Paul Ehrlich has been in the public spotlight for half a century now. But there's a question at the heart of the story of Ehrlich's unlikely rise to prominence. A question that must be answered. Why is it that this entomologist has become such a...