Aporia Podcast

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Aporia Podcast episodes

June 10, 2023 The Genius of Galton | Gavan Tredoux
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.
1 hr 11 min
May 27, 2023 Evo Psy & Incels | William Costello
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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).
1 hr 25 min
May 21, 2023 'What an interesting question!' | Bryan Caplan
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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.
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1 hr 35 min
May 06, 2023 Based Feminism | Louise Perry
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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1 hr 30 min
April 29, 2023 What comes after liberalism? | Alex Kaschuta
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/
1 hr 25 min
April 01, 2023 Sex in The Brain | David Geary
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
56 min
March 25, 2023 Not without a fight! | Amy Wax
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
1 hr 14 min
March 18, 2023 The Heterodox Academy has FAILED! | Nathan Cofnas
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
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59 min
March 04, 2023 Make Behaviourism Great Again | Diana Fleischman - ISF Podcast E40
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.

1 hr 29 min
February 25, 2023 Meritocracy, HBD, and Embryo Selection | Adrian Wooldridge - ISF Podcast E39
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.
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1 hr 14 min