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Two for Tea Podcast

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  • 57 - Buster Benson - The Value of Arguing
    You can find Buster’s book Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement here:
    https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-We-Yelling-hardcover/dp/0525540105.
    For my Letter exchange with Buster (one of my two favourite conversations I’ve ever had on the site) see:
    https://letter.wiki/conversation/225.
    Buster’s Letter exchange with B. J. Campbell on guns see:
    https://letter.wiki/conversation/129.
    Belief tracking:
    https://busterbenson.com/beliefs/
    Write to Buster at Letter:
    https://letter.wiki/BusterBenson/conversations
    Write to me at Letter:
    https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations
    Further References
    James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (2019)
    My review of Impossible Conversations for Areo magazine:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/09/03/impossible-conversations/
    Oliver Traldi’s review of Impossible Conversations for Arc Digital:
    https://arcdigital.media/the-political-pick-up-artists-6bcece72bb92
    Timestamps
    2:49 Persuasion vs. changing your own mind
    5:02 The value of honest, open conflict
    9:11 The voice of power, the voice of avoidance, the voice of truth
    13:12 How to make disagreements feel less threatening and more exploratory
    17:42 Techniques for helping a group to have more productive disagreements
    25:12 Conflicts of head, heart and hands
    35:06 Disagreements with people you’re close to
    44:22 Opinion tracking
    51:40 Tribalism
    52:45 Iterated prisoner’s dilemma games
    55:10 Lessons in cooperation from Covid-19
    1:01:46 How to improve good will.
    1 hr 15 min
  • 56 - Jonathan Church - White Fragility
    Jonathan’s book Reinventing Racism:
    Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial Inequality is forthcoming. To join the mailing list for preorders, write to [email protected].
    Write to Jonathan and read his correspondence with Matt McManus:
    https://letter.wiki/JonathanChurch/conversations
    Jonathan’s 2019 Areo article “An Economy Theory of Whiteness” is here:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/11/26/an-economic-theory-of-whiteness/
    You can find more of Jonathan’s writing here:
    http://www.jonathandavidchurch.com/
    Write to me here: https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations
    Further References
    Robin DiAngelo, Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2016):
    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/
    Glenn Loury, “How to Mend Affirmative Action” (1997):
    https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/cvandbio/How%20to%20Mend%20Affirmative%20Action.pdf
    For more on the scholar John A. Powell, see:
    https://belonging.berkeley.edu/johnpowell
    Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (1989)
    https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
    Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness as Property (1993):
    https://sph.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/Harris_Whiteness%20as%20Property_106HarvLRev-1.pdf
    For more on the scholar Lawrence Blum, see:
    http://www.lawrenceblum.net/
    Lawrence Blum, “White Privilege: A Mild Critique” (2008):
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1477878508095586
    For more on the Coase theorum:
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/environmental-economics/The-Coase-theorem
    Coleman Hughes, “The Racism Treadmill” (2018):
    https://quillette.com/2018/05/14/the-racism-treadmill/
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The Nightmare from which Ta Nehisi-Coates Is Trying not to Awake” in Areo 2017:
    https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/17/the-nightmare-from-which-ta-nehisi-coates-is-trying-not-to-awake/
    Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities (2018):
    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306352/whiteshift/9780141986630.html
    Razib Khan’s 2018 Areo article, “Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future”:
    https://areomagazine.com/2018/11/28/why-there-will-not-be-a-beige-future-skin-color-genetics-race-and-racism/
    Timestamps
    3:35 The central thesis of Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility
    8:05 The Kafka trap
    11:39 The reification of whiteness
    17:40 The Implicit As sociation Test
    31:23 The legacy of historical racism
    32:20 Racism vs. racial inequality
    34:52 Preferential vs. developmental affirmative action
    39:00 African-Americans and the race burden
    41:35 What is racism?
    44:00 Majorities and minorities
    46:32 Jonathan’s economic theory of racial injustice
    1:09:36 Will pervasive societal racism always be with us?
    1 hr 16 min
  • 55 - Massimo Pigliucci - A Modern Stoic
    Massimo’s books include Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture (Syntheses in Ecology and Evolution) (2001):
    https://www.amazon.com/Phenotypic-Plasticity-Syntheses-Evolution-2001-07-17/dp/B01K17YKGQ
    Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, with co-author Jonathan Kaplan (2006):
    https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo4100801.html
    Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (2010):
    https://www.amazon.com/Nonsense-Stilts-Tell-Science-Bunk-dp-0226667863/dp/0226667863/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
    and
    How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (2017):
    https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Stoic-Ancient-Philosophy/dp/0465097952
    He is the co-author, with Gregory Lopez of Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life (2019):
    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116985/live-like-a-stoic/9781846045967.html
    He is the co-editor, with Maarten Boudry, of Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem:
    https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo15996988.html
    You can find Massimo’s Letter conversation with David Sloan Wilson here:
    https://letter.wiki/conversation/34
    And my article about this conversation here:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/07/10/human-cultural-evolution-a-letter-exchange
    You can find Massimo’s Letter conversaion with Philip Goff here:
    https://letter.wiki/conversation/277
    For more on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis:
    https://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/
    On Stoic Week: https://modernstoicism.com/about-stoic-week/
    Follow Massimo on Twitter: @mpigliucci
    Write to Open Letters at Letter here:
    https://letter.wiki/OpenLetters/conversations
    Write to me: https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations
    Further Notes
    Derren Brown, Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine (2016)
    My essay on Stoicism: https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/21/in-praise-of-stoicism-derren-browns-happy-book-review/
    For Karl Popper on the demarcation problem see:
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#ProbDema
    Larry Laudan on the demarcation problem:
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-7055-7_6
    For Wittgenstein on the definition of a game see:
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#LangGameFamiRese
    The SETI institute: https://www.seti.org/
    Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind: How Sexual Selection Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2001):
    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114577/the-mating-mind-by-geoffrey-miller/
    Richard Lewontin, 1929–
    Lawrence Kraus, A Universe from Nothing (2012)
    Massimo, Maarten Boudry, Lawrence Krauss and Daniel Dennett on the Limits of Science:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRzfCemXYLc
    For Wilfred Sellars on the stereoscopic vision of science see:
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sellars/#8
    Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel (1941):
    https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf
    Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010)
    Massimo’s review of The Moral Landscape:
    https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-02-02/#feature
    Ayn Rand’s objectivism: https://aynrand.org/ideas/overview/
    The Discourses of Epictetus: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.html
    Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations:
    http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
    Seneca, Of Anger: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Anger/Book_I
    For more on Chryssipus: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chrysippus
    Timestamps
    3:47 The demarcation problem, the difference between science and pseudoscience
    17:26 What made Massimo change fields from biology to philosophy
    21:45 What is the relationship between philosophy and science?
    38:32 Science and ethics
    45:59 The appeal of Stoicism
    57:17 Stoic practices
    1:11:31 The Stoic fork/dichotomy of control
    1:23:11 Free will
    1:34:00 The misrepresentation of Stoicism as repression of emotion
    1:43:18 The lessons of the pandemic
    1 hr 58 min
  • 54 - Razib Khan - Why We Were So Ill-Equipped for a Pandemic
    Razib’s podcast The Insight can be found here: http://insitome.libsyn.com/website;
    His blog Gene Expression can be found here:
    https://www.gnxp.com/
    You can find the Brown Pundits blog and podcast here:
    https://www.brownpundits.com/author/razib_k_khan/.
    Follow Razib on Twitter: @razibkhan
    Razib Khan’s previous appearance on this podcast:
    https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/09-razib-khan
    Razib’s article in the City Journal:
    https://www.city-journal.org/decay-of-the-american-system
    Further References
    Nicole Hannah Jones’ commentary (wrongly called “Hannah Nored-Jones” on the show:
    https://www.nytimes.com/by/nikole-hannah-jones
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
    On vaccines:
    https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine?fbclid=IwAR2AFUjBRxZvguVzCT4hQM4k7WlWO8ta13_sSOygtgkI2L_R2D4Q1VMalck
    Timestamps
    1:21 When and why did Razib become aware that things were going to get serious?
    10:06 Why were we so blindsided by this?
    13:30 Differences from SARS coronavirus 1
    18:04 Our false sense of control
    24:14 How our elites are trained and what they think is important.
    25:14 Herd immunity
    32:37 Are there long-term sequelae from the virus, after recovery?
    36:09 Likelihood of having a severe case
    38:06 Obesity
    39:48 India
    41:40 Seasonality and climate
    43:41 Uncertainties
    48:28 Social and economic effects of lockdown
    59:46 Race
    1:00:45 The Chinese virus. Trump, the woke, semantics, names
    1:13:38 Updating our priorities
    1:16:18 Vaccines, mutation rates, virulence
    1:19:29 The future; the difficulty of predictions
    1 hr 32 min
  • 53 - Matt McManus, Ben Burgis and Marion Trejo - Jordan Peterson: The Man and his Myths
    Together with Conrad Hamilton, Matt, Ben and Marion are the authors of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, with an introduction by Slavoj Zizek (2020):
    https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mayhem-Leftist-Critique-Peterson-ebook/dp/B085WB8FXF
    More about Marion:
    http://itesm.academia.edu/MarionTrejo/CurriculumVitae
    More about Ben:
    Ben’s book Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left (2019):
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100
    Ben’s segment on the Michael Brooks show:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNucPQW8aGvIq7dazojH0ykvk88RkfjoW
    Ben’s writing for Arc Digital: https://arcdigital.media/@benburgis
    Ben’s writing for Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/author/ben-burgis
    Review of Give Them an Argument in Areo:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/05/08/give-them-an-argument-logic-for-the-left-book-review/
    Write to Ben: https://letter.wiki/BenjaminBurgis/conversations
    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis
    More about Matt:
    Matt’s book The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics (2019):
    https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030246815
    Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law: A Critical Legal Argument (2019):
    https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo50460306.html
    Matt’s writing for Areo magazine can be found here:
    https://areomagazine.com/author/mattmcmanus303/
    Review of Postmodern Conservatism in Areo:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/12/20/a-peculiar-phenomenon-review-of-the-rise-of-post-modern-conservatism-by-matthew-mcmanus/
    Write to Matt: https://letter.wiki/MatthewMcManus/conversations
    Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf
    Further Notes
    The previous episode with Ben Burgis and Jon Rosen, on Free Will and Moral Responsibility:
    https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/41-jon-rosen-and-ben-burgis
    Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)
    Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999)
    Slavoj Zizek’s debate with Peterson:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWndfzuOc4
    Peterson’s interview with the Grievance Studies hoaxers, which includes Helen Pluckrose’s pushback against the concept of postmodern neo-Marxism:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWhuQOVTFGw
    Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression -
    And the Unexpected Solution (2018)
    Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (1956)
    John Rawles, Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical (1985)
    George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871–82)
    Jordan Peterson’s interview on Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast:
    https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/
    Maarten Boudry’s letter exchange with Peter Boghossian on belief:
    https://letter.wiki/conversation/22
    My article on that exchange, for Areo:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/18/can-we-make-ourselves-believe-a-letter-exchange/
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1978)
    Richard Rorty:
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/
    Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Studies in Popular Beliefs in
    Mark Fisher, “Exiting the Vampire Castle” (2013):
    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
    Democratic Socialists of America, Fox news clip from 2019:
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-socialists-convention-erupts-due-to-sensory-overload-gendered-pronoun-usage
    Contrapoints (Natalie Wynn)’s video on cancelling:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8
    Timestamps
    4:53 Slavoj Zizek
    6:45 12 Rules of Life: self-help and politics
    28:27 Capitalism
    41:46 Jungian archetypes: chaos and order
    42:59 Chaos and the feminine
    52:37 The West
    54:54 His critiques of woke excesses at university
    1:05:02 “Postmodern neo-Marxism”
    1:17:36 Peterson’s own postmodernism
    1:21:21 Peterson’s concept of truth
    1:35:47 The desacralisation of the world
    1:41:52 Ben’s new book advocating for a more compassionate left
    1:48:28 Taking Peterson seriously
    1 hr 59 min
  • 52 - Brian D. Earp - Drugs to Help Us Handle Love
    Brian’s book, jointly written with Julian Savulescu, can be found here:
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192
    and here:
    https://www.amazon.com/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192.
    You can review Brian’s academic work here:
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Earp
    Follow Brian YouTube channel here:
    https://www.youtube.com/user/earptube
    Follow Brian on Twitter: @briandavidearp
    Brian’s previous appearance on this podcast can be found here:
    https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/13-brian-earp
    Additional References
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). I discuss the book briefly here:
    https://uncommongroundmedia.com/ursula-le-guin-left-hand-darkness/
    Harry Frankfurt’s “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” (1971) is paywalled, but you can find a summary here:
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desire/
    Rhys Southan, “Re-Orientation”: https://medium.com/@rhys/re-orientation-fb131ba7bd9b
    Timestamps
    4:51 The therapeutic possibilities of pro-love drugs
    5:37 Biological theories of love: modulating brain chemicals
    14:42 The Left Hand of Darkness
    17:05 Using MDMA
    17:58 Questions of authenticity, first-order & second-order desires
    21:05 Changing your sexuality
    23:09 Online dating
    29:31 The real thing and its imitations: Argentine tango & theatre
    38:46 When should we use pro-love drugs, should they be medically prescribed?
    45:48 Anti-love drugs. Dampening the libido with antidepressants.
    49:10 High-tech conversion therapies
    1:03:24 The medicalization of love
    1:06:49 Leaving dysfunctional relationships
    1:15:19 The future of love and anti-love drugs
    1 hr 21 min
  • 50 - Maarten Boudry - Science and Optimism
    You can find Maarten’s scholarly work here:
    https://ugent.academia.edu/MaartenBoudry
    Many of Maarten’s more popular articles are available here:
    https://sites.google.com/site/maartenboudry/blog
    He is the co-editor with Massimo Pigliucci of the 2013 Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem:
    https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Pseudoscience-Reconsidering-Demarcation-ebook/dp/B00EARH246/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381938709&sr=8-1&keywords=boudry+pigliucci
    And, also with Massimo Pigliucci, is the co-editor of
    https://www.amazon.com/Science-Unlimited-Challenges-Maarten-Boudry-ebook/dp/B078BXMPM4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516100822&sr=8-1&keywords=science+unlimited
    You can start a conversation with Maarten at Letter here:
    https://letter.wiki/MaartenBoudry/conversations
    Follow Maarten on Twitter: @mboudry
    Further References
    Maarten’s conversation with Peter Boghossian on the nature of belief at Letter:
    https://letter.wiki/conversation/22
    For more on Popper and the demarcation problem:
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/
    Larry Laudan, “The Demise of the Demarcation Problem” (1983):
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-7055-7_6
    Tanner Edis on religious belief and conspiracy theories:
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329780971_Cosmic_Conspiracy_Theories_How_Theologies_Evade_Science_From_Genesis_to_Astrobiology
    See Maarten’s take on Tanner Edis’ paper here, on Jerry Coyne’s blog:
    https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/why-theological-challenges-to-science-resemble-conspiracy-theories/
    H. Benson et al, “Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer”:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567
    Maarten’s essay on the four flavours of contemporary pessimism can be foud here:
    https://quillette.com/2019/06/26/four-flavors-of-doom-a-taxonomy-of-contemporary-pessimism/
    Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018)
    Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (2018)
    Iona’s article on Aarey can be found here:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/10/15/the-word-for-world-is-forest-an-ode-to-aarey/
    Timestamps
    3:38 The demarcation problem and the difference between science and pseudoscience
    14:57 Religion and other conspiracy theories
    30:31 The four flavours of contemporary pessimism
    49:20 Ecomodernism
    51:50 Do activists present a greater hurdle to our ability to prevent climate change than denialists?
    1 hr 7 min
  • 51 - Saloni Dattani - Tackling the Pandemic
    Saloni’s article on the UK policy is here:
    https://unherd.com/2020/03/the-scientific-case-against-herd-immunity/
    Follow Saloni on Twitter @salonium
    Further References
    More on the UK policy:
    https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
    More resources on the Coronavirus:
    https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
    https://nextstrain.org/
    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
    https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
    Why the Corona Virus Has Been So Successful:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/
    For some of the best information on the virus, follow epidemiologist @NAChristakis on Twitter or Facebook (Nicholas Christakis).
    To write an open letter about your experiences with Coronavirus or create a daily journal:
    https://letter.wiki/OpenLetters/conversations.
    If you would like to start a correspondence with someone on this or any other topic and don’t have a suitable interlocutor, contact [email protected] or tweet to me or @JacksonAEdwards.
    Write to me at Letter:
    https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations
    Timestamps
    2:03 The situation in Hong Kong
    4:40 My personal situation
    11:21 Herd immunity
    14:04 Psychological impacts of quarantine & social distancing
    19:06 More on herd immunity and secondary effects of the epidemic
    30:33 The reproduction number
    32:18 The second wave
    32:57 Seasonality
    38:01 Does having had the virus confer immunity?
    40:46 Treatments
    46:33 Reasons to be optimistic
    49:05 Developing a vaccine
    51:24 How did the virus evolve?
    54:46 How many young people are liable to suffer from serious complications or die?
    57:15 Why are we testing so few people?
    58:32 Panic buying
    1:02:40 What we can do
    1:14:35 Why the numbers sound so small
    1:20:08 Open letters about your experiences with social isolation and a call for expertise
    1 hr 25 min
  • 49 - Nick Cohen - The Left and Its Discontents
    Nick is the author of five books:
    Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous (1999):
    https://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Britannia-Reports-Sinister-Preposterous/dp/1859842887
    Pretty Straight Guys (2003):
    https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Straight-Guys-Nick-Cohen/dp/0571220045
    What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way (2007):
    https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Left-How-Lost-its/dp/0007229704
    Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England (2009):
    https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Etonians-Reports-Sickbed-Liberal/dp/0007308922
    You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom (2012):
    https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Read-This-Book/dp/0007308906
    Further references
    Zubin Madon’s podcast on the history of totalitarism can be found here:
    https://medium.com/@ZMadon/flirting-with-fascism-podcast-70c6296a3f21
    Timestamps
    2:33 What things have stayed the same since Nick wrote What’s Left? The anti-western left. The criticisms he received after publishing the book.
    5:58 Is this just left-bashing?
    7:25 The leftist arguments against Jeremy Corbyn
    9:36 The rise of the illiberal right
    12:46 How the fringe can become the mainstream
    13:35 Hindu nationalism and fascism
    14:52 Brexit
    18:40 The cult of Corbyn and the future of the British Labour party
    25:31 Social media and news
    32:46 Fatalism
    35:39 The Iraq War
    40:28 Pacifism
    42:42 Bolivia
    46:18 More on Brexit
    48:32 Threats to freedom of speech
    55:18 The UK libel laws
    57:52 Moral relativism on the left
    1 hr 7 min
  • 48 - Colin Wright - No One is Born in the Wrong Body
    You can find Colin’s Quillette article, “The New Evolution Deniers” here:
    https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/
    And his article with William Malone and Julia Robinson, “No One is Born in the Wrong Body” here:
    https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/no-one-is-born-in-the-wrong-body/
    Colin’s article with Emma Hilton, “The Dangerous Denial of Sex” can be found here:
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
    You can find Colin’s academic work on social spiders, etc. here:
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y6HdvgcAAAAJ&hl=en
    Further References
    Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
    Derren Brown, Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine (2016)
    I review Brown’s book for Areo magazine here:
    https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/21/in-praise-of-stoicism-derren-browns-happy-book-review/
    My interview with intersex activist Claire Graham:
    https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/36-claire-graham
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
    My interview with Steve Stewart-Williams:
    https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/43-steve-stewart-williams-an-astonishing-ape
    Timestamps
    3:04 Why study social insects?
    4:50 Personality in insects and humans.
    23:44 Is no one born in the wrong body?
    29:05 Does everyone have a gender identity?
    37:50 Sex and sexuality
    47:45 Is transgenderism the new gay conversion therapy?
    54:54 Why are so many people identifying as trans, even at very young ages?
    57:59 How is trans activism affecting academia, science and wider society?
    1:00:46 How Colin defines sex.
    1:03:41 Non-binary; de Beauvoir’s idea that woman is born not made; gender free
    1:06:58 The hatred faced by non-passing transwomen; intrasexual gender policing
    1:24:29 How will things develop in the future?
    1 hr 38 min

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