Paul’s brand new book, Against Empathy ... The damage empathy can do ... The difference between empathy and compassion ... Why our moral intuitions aren’t so moral ... Are low empathy people more likely to hurt others? ... Empathy as moral jet fuel ... The costs and benefits of feeling other people’s pain ...

How do ancient and modern philosophy differ? ... Philosophy as a way of life ... How the scientific revolution changed philosophy ... Has modern ethics gone down the wrong path? ... Why did ethicists turn away from virtues and toward moral rules? ... Do universal ethical principles exist? ... What Sam Harris gets wrong about ethics ...

George’s project to synthesize the human genome ... Fighting climate change by resurrecting the mammoth ... Applying gene editing to human reproduction ... Can gene tech make up for stagnation in pharmaceutical research? ... The role of chance in genetic engineering breakthroughs ...

Jay’s anti-Trump appeals ... How the election unleashed hate ... When “love your enemy” just won’t work ... Is empathy a limited resource? ... Jay’s spiritual toolkit for coping with a Trump presidency ... Trump, the anti-Buddha ... Can mindfulness help save the world? ...

Anticipating Trump ... How to read cards ... The Renaissance and the birth of Tarot ... Basics of neoplatonism ... Neoplatonic and Buddhist philosophy in the Tarot ... Tarot as a philosophical card game ... Card reading, therapy, and meditation ... The Great Work of alchemy ... How art revived the occult ...

Debunking the debunking of psychoanalytic theory ... Can thoughts change emotions? ... The patient-therapist relationship as a window into the self ... Therapy’s modest goal ... Psychotherapy’s struggle to escape Freud’s shadow ... Psychoanalyzing the urge to engage in psychoanalysis ... Looking at politics through a psychoanalytic lens ...

How hormones drive consumer and mating behavior ... How your fingers give your testosterone level away ... Why some people seem taller than they are ... Why grandfathers get fewer gifts than grandmothers ... Is religion at the root of bad behavior? ... Is Islam more conducive to violence than other religions? ... Evolutionary perspectives on religion ...

Consciousness as an illusion ... How would a belief look in the brain? ... Two kinds of dualism ... What if you and I see blue differently? ... Is it like something to be Keith Frankish? ... Why thinking about consciousness is so hard ...

Announcing a series of “sixty-second sermons” ... Tribalism and Trump’s success ... Apocalypse now? ... Dan vs. Bob on whether a global community is possible ... The moral dimensions of the election ... The backlash against political correctness ... What it feels like to be an outsider ... A closer look at MeaningofLife.tv’s “sermons" and other local news ...

From positive to humanistic psychology ... Must one risk madness to achieve genius? ... How creativity and spirituality overlap ... The light and dark triad of personality traits ... Mindfulness as the link between creativity and spirituality ...