Arlie’s new book Strangers in Their Own Land ... The red state paradox ... The psychology of Tea Party discontent ... Does identity politics breed identity politics? ... Justifying Trump’s bad behavior ... Racial attitudes in rural white communities ... The blue state paradox ...

The search for non-human consciousness ... Consciousness in the organic and inorganic worlds ... Measuring consciousness ... Lucky us: The universe breeds consciousness ... How scientific and spiritual worldviews can enrich each other ... Artificial intelligence is not (necessarily) artificial consciousness ... The Allen Institute for Brain Science and its mission ...

Why Trumpism isn’t surprising ... Trump’s vulgarity as a feature, not a bug ... Glenn: “America first” puts humanity last ... The emptiness of attacks on Trump ... How liberal elites give power to Trump’s dog whistles ... Does America need an anti-tribalism movement? ...

Hume: Reason is a slave of feelings ... Feelings and reason in evolutionary psychology ... Why Kant wanted ethics to be rational ... The evolution of moral intuitions ... Morality is subjective, but it's in our nature ... Why seeing purpose in evolution freaks scientists out ... Hume’s Buddhist view of the self ...

Bob and Pam team up to analyze the mind of Trump ... Inside the mind of a narcissist ... Narcissists are made not born ... Psychoanalyzing Trumpism ... A moment of compassion for Trump ...

Why consciousness is so weird ... Is consciousness like your brain’s shadow? ... If David was a zombie, would anyone know? ... Bob’s wacky theory about consciousness ... Is consciousness what collapses the quantum wave function? ... Can there be a true science of consciousness? ...

The link between “new religious movements” and violence ... The suicidal cult Heaven’s Gate ... Suicide as a religious act ... Why Heaven’s Gate matters ... The thin line between Heaven’s Gate and mainstream religions ... Donald Trump, American messiah? ...

Berkley, Hume, and Elon Musk on whether the world is real ... Hume’s view of causality ... The metaphysics of Kant and Hume ... Does it matter if we live in a simulation? ...

Louis’s “meduso-anthropic” theory and the meaning of life ... Creating new universes (literally) ... Using black holes to power starships ... How black-hole starships could unite humanity ... Reality as a simulation and the wise alien scenario ...

What is “mindfulness?” ... Suffering: Can't live without it! ... The pathology of our wandering minds ... Seeking the chaos of impermanence ... Do all thoughts have feelings? ... What's the relationship between your mind and your brain? ...