Tea for Two: A podcast about politics, culture and society and about how everyone is wrong except us. With Iona Italia, Helen Pluckrose and guests.

Episode 1: Introduction to our podcast.

0:00. Our backgrounds and how we came to hold our current ideas of secularism & universal liberalism

10:27 A summary of my political views—Iona

14:00 Why we dislike the concept of privilege

19:07 Universal liberalism: strengths and shortcomings—Helen

23:31 The social justice left approach versus the universal liberal approach—Helen

26:00 Why I mostly critique the left—Iona

30:00 Free speech

34:08 Why I mostly critique the left—Helen

38:16 Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve—Iona; our views on Murray and race and IQ in general

45:00 Differences between men & women

47:10 James Damore’s memo

55:38 The importance of amicable disagreement

1:01 Cross-generational connections—Iona

1:04 Separating the people from the ideas

1:06 Anti-black/brown racism and anti-white racism; FGM & circumcision

1:12 Similarities and differences between Helen and me.