Dangerous Speech

The latest episode of my podcast is out on SoundCloud. I spoke with Michael Shellenberger about his book San Fransicko, and how progressive/woke policies hurt the causes they claim to support His taxonomy of woke religion and how current woke ideology acts as a religion

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Follow Michael: @ShellenbergerMD

You can buy Michael’s books here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063093626/ref=nodl_?pf_rd_r=F2HSAY31EYE6EV5KQK4D&pf_rd_p=8fe9b1d0-f378-4356-8bb8-cada7525eadd&pd_rd_r=d8fc4e5e-411e-413a-bcc4-c7e9700ef5d4&pd_rd_w=r9nFn&pd_rd_wg=CyRop&ref_=pd_gw_unk

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Read about Michael’s taxonomy of woke religion here and subscribe to his substack:

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-wokeism-is-a-religion

I spoke with Batya Ungar-Sargon about her recent book Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy, the replacing of class issues with race, the disdain the media show towards the working class, how the media and institutions lost the trust of the public.

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Follow Batya: @bungarsargon

You can buy Batya’s book here: 
https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/bad-news/

Or here:

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Media-Undermining-Democracy/dp/1641772069/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GDTXMW9NUBRS&keywords=bad+news+how+woke+media+is+undermining+democracy&qid=1642817896&sprefix=bad+news%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1

I had Monica Guzman on, hoping to ask her about a TED Talk she did about curiosity and her upcoming book on the same topic. Monica let her curiosity get the better of her and started interviewing me.

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Follow Monica: @moniguzman

Find all of Monica’s links and pre-order her book here: https://linktr.ee/moniguzman

I spoke with James Esses about being expelled from his university psychotherapy course due to his questioning of trans ideology.


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Follow James: @JamesEsses

Help support James’ legal fund: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/expelled-university-free-speech/

Check out James’ substack: https://jamesesses.substack.com/

I spoke with Alan Davison about a paper he wrote exploring how anti-racism works with claims of Islamophobia, comparing the state of academia in Australia and North America and illiberal progressivism.
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Follow Alan: @alan_davison

You can read the two papers we discussed here:
https://rdcu.be/czE8j

https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Alan.Davison/publications

Check out Permission to Think: https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-arts-and-social-sciences/partners-and-community/fass-industry-events/permission-think

And Uncomfortable Conversations: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/uncomfortable-conversations-with-josh-szeps/id1002920114

https://play.acast.com/s/uncomfortable-conversations-with-josh-szeps

I spoke with Dr. Sheena Mason about the theory of racelessness, how to get past the idea of race, some of the hypocrisy with the new anti-racism

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Follow Dr. Mason: @SheenaMasonPhD
Follow theory of racelessness: https://twitter.com/Racelessness


Learn more about the work being done by Theory of Racelessness: https://www.theoryofracelessness.org/

Check out Dr. Mason’s podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/queenshe

I spoke with Sasha Ayad about her work with teens and trans issues, the evolution of gender dysphoria, affirmation therapy, some of the hypocrisy in gender and trans activism.

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Follow Sasha: @SashaLPC


Learn more about Sasha’s work and contact her through her website: https://inspiredteentherapy.com/

Check out her podcast: https://gender-a-wider-lens.captivate.fm/

Check out the work being done at the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association:https://genderexploratory.com/

I spoke with Maud Maron about her being fired as a public defender for speaking out against encroachment of CSJ ideology, school curriculum, parent involvement.

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Follow Maud: @MaudMaron


Check out Maud’s campaign:https://maudmaron.nyc/

Check out the work of PlaceNYC: https://placenyc.org/


An article Maud wrote about curriculum: https://nypost.com/2020/07/23/racial-obsessions-make-it-impossible-for-nyc-schools-to-treat-parents-kids-as-people/

Bari Weiss’ article about Maud: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/a-witch-trial-at-the-legal-aid-society

I spoke with John R Wood Jr. about Braver Angels and the work they are doing in trying to build communities and stem the flow of polarization, the role of media and social media.

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Follow John: @JohnRWoodJr

Follow Braver Angels: @BraverAngels

Check out the work that Braver Angels does: braverangels.org

I spoke with David Ben Moshe about an article he wrote comparing the parallels between cancel culture and his experiences as an ex-felon, and issues within the prison and criminal justice systems.


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Follow David: @realdbenmoshe

You can read David’s article here: https://www.newsweek.com/im-black-ex-felon-i-have-message-about-cancel-culture-opinion-1604846

You can join David's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/davidbenmoshe