Paul Bloom is a Yale University professor of psychology and cognitive science, but he also dabbles in philosophy. He's written incredible books about morality, pleasure, and empathy, but his latest book is about how we find meaning and purpose through suffering. In this episode, we discuss suffering, pleasure, trauma, post-traumatic growth as well as essentialism and NFTs.

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Xavier Bonilla is the host of the Converging Dialogues podcast, and he's here to discuss what it means to be what he calls a "radical centrist". There's a lot of polarization today with little nuance for topics, which makes it difficult to meet in the middle. But are centrists just people playing both sides? That's what Xavier helps us find out.

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We love to think we know why success happens, but do we really? Duncan Watts is a computational social scientist who is here to discuss his research and his amazing book about how common sense fails us. Whether it's a famous piece of art, a best-selling book, a blockbuster movie, or a successful person, success is far more random than we realize.

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Dr. Carl Hart is a somewhat controversial psychologist and neuroscientist for his views on drugs. In his newest book Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he argues that there's a lot of bad information about drugs and drug use can actually be beneficial when used properly. We discuss the current discussion around drugs, necessary policy change, and the challenges of addiction.

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Prisons and the justice system in America don't work. In fact, they cause a lot more harm than good. Today's guests are Maya Shenwar and Victoria Law to discuss their book about the mistreatment of people after they leave prison and how it holds them back from moving forward with their lives and rehabilitation. We discuss these issues, the prison industrial complex, addiction treatment, and more.

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Charles Love is the author of the brand new book Race Crazy, which discusses BLM, the 1619 Project, and what he calls the progressive racism movement. Although we don't agree on everything, this is a great conversation to discuss different perspectives on some of the biggest issues facing the Black community and how we can discover solutions together.

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Carl Bergstrom is a professor who teaches a course in calling out BS science that he teaches with his co-author Jevin West. In this episode, we chat with Carl about how we can be better skeptics about the research, data, and statistics we come across on a daily basis. We also get to ask him if polling data really matters.

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Benjamin Boyce is a controversial figure who gained popularity from his in-depth documentary on the situation that happened at Evergreen College a few years ago. Since then, he's been interviewing people on his YouTube channel and being pretty vocal on Twitter. In this episode, we chat with him about social issues like CRT.

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Bryan Caplan wrote a much-needed and extremely controversial book about how we view education. Bryan is a professor and economist who argues that for the most part, education is just about social signaling and doesn't provide much value or great outcomes. In this episode, we chat with him about his views on education and what we can do to fix the system for everyone.

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It's no secret that it's difficult to talk about race. It's a polarizing topic, but it's one we need to discuss. Today's guest is Celeste Headlee to chat about her brand new book Speaking of Race. We talk about how we can keep our cool when talking about race as well as our experiences as biracial people when having these discussions.

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