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GARDENERS OF EDEN (E30)

John Faithful Hamer

A conversation with anthropologist Helga Ingeborg Vierich about sustainable hunter-gatherer ecosystem management practices such as seed-spreading, permaculture, selective burning, partial domestication, and species-specific hunting bans.

A conversation with entrepreneur Jaffer Ali about the inscrutable nature of marketing success, mainstream media manipulation, and the Big Data myth.

A conversation with artist Bevan Ramsay about being, and pretending to be, an artist in postmodern America.

A conversation with writer Jonathan Kay about his recent move to Quillette, Heterodox Academy’s conference in New York City, and the struggle to remain fair and objective in profoundly partisan times.

A conversation with philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb about his new book: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life.

A conversation with philosopher Patrick Lee Miller about parenting, love, relationships, death, mortality, honour, money, and the meaning of life.

A conversation with historian Fred Bode about Paul Schrader’s First Reformed (2017), a thriller about despair, radicalization, terrorism, sin, and redemption.

A conversation with historian Fred Bode and movie critic Matthew Hays about America’s love affair with disaster movies

A conversation with culture critic Ingrid Bejerman about growing up in Brazil, running a literary festival, and falling in love with Montreal.

A conversation with entrepreneur Graeme Blake about teaching law school applicants how to game the LSAT, the strategies and challenges of starting and running a business, and the future of education.