Two for Tea Podcast

Further References

https://onelawforall.org.uk/

Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe (2017)

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014)

Will Declining Monogamy Lead to an Increase in Violence? - Areo:

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/10/will-declining-monogamy-lead-to-an-increase-in-violence/

Argument Clinic - Monty Python's Flying Circus:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hwqn9

Razib Khan on the history of caste in India:

https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/09-razib-khan

Timestamps

2:10 Contrasts between UK, US and Argentine secularism

7:52 Faith schools

10:27 Why secularism is the best deal even for Christian believers

13:28 Collective Christian worship in schools and at councils

14:40 The religious arms race in India

15:12 Sharia courts in the UK

23:30 Self-appointed mouthpieces for interest groups like MEND and the Muslim Council of Britain, costuming, Marks & Spencer’s hijabs, imposing religion on children

32:54 Lack of sexual education in faith schools

33:29 Integration

34:55 Should people identify with a watered-down Christian heritage to counteract the growing influence of Islam and to provide a sense of identity? The search for an alternative to traditional religion. People who hold on to religion as a means of connecting with their heritage.

43:07 Is the UK version of secularism tainted by a protestant perspective?

~45:00 The benefits of monogamy

47:17 Tribalism, social media

48:28 Grooming gangs

57:17 Dogwhistles and language policing

~59:00 Diversity, human rights, individualism

~1:00:02 Religion and nationalism in India

1:14:36 Child sex abuse and Islamic culture

1:29:44 Circumcision

You can find Jon and Greg’s book here:

https://www.thecoddling.com/

Jon’s book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012) can be found here:

https://righteousmind.com/

For more on FIRE:

https://www.thefire.org/

Greg’s book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate (2012) can be found here:

http://www.unlearningliberty.com/

Timestamps

1:44 How campus culture has changed since 2011.

1:39 From honour culture, through dignity culture, to victimhood culture

7:26 When did Bradley and Jason first become aware of the shift in culture

9:27 Microaggressions

14:30 Standpoint theory and identity politics

18:30 How campus culture has changed

23:39 The spillover into larger society

27:00 Has this brought any positive developments?

33:38 Campbell and Manning’s theoretical and philosophical background

36:31 Diversity training

40:00 Privilege

43:25 Spillover into personal relationships

50:10 Threats to free speech on campus

55:30 Some ways to combat all this

Further References

Emile Durkheim:

https://www.iep.utm.edu/durkheim/

Donald Black’s theory of law and social control, reviewed by Bradley:

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0067.xml

For the free-range parenting, see:

http://www.freerangekids.com/

And Lenore Skenazy’s Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry (2009)

FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education):

https://www.thefire.org/

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018):

https://www.thecoddling.com/

For Haidt and Lukianoff’s original article is here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

I reviewed The Coddling of the American Mind for Areo magazine:

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/26/good-intentions-gone-awry-jonathan-haidt-and-greg-lukianoffs-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-book-review/

And Haidt and Lukianoff have also appeared on this podcast, to discuss the book:

https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/06-jonathan-haidt-and-greg-lukianoff

Episode 04 - Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning by Iona Italia and Helen Pluckrose

1:23 How Jesse first became interested in trans issues and how his views have evolved

19:00 The N-word

24:09 Trans children

30:42 Puberty blockers

40:16 Non-binary people

46:00 How and why Jesse has fallen foul of some trans activists

50:01 Jesse’s upcoming book on the replication crisis

Jesse’s writing for New York Magazine can be found here:

http://nymag.com/author/jesse-singal/

Especially relevant articles:

https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html;

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/

Sign up for Jesse’s blog here: https://jessesingal.substack.com/

Follow Jesse on Twitter @jessesingal

Further References:

Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists and One Scholar’s Search for Justice (2015)

Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would be Queen: The Science of Genderbending and Transsexualism (2003)

Hannah Louise Poston, “The News from the World of Beauty: A Close Reading of a Snapchat Scandal” (2018):

https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/06/news-world-beauty

Natalie Wynn (“Contra Points”):

https://www.youtube.com/user/ContraPoints/videos

Natalie Reed’s blog:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/

Tea for Two: A podcast about politics, culture and society and about how everyone is wrong except us. With Iona Italia, Helen Pluckrose and guests.

Episode 2: Sarah Haider

More on Sarah's organisation, Ex Muslims of North America, can be found here: http://exmuslims.org. You can follow Sarah Haider on Twitter, https://www.twitter.com/SarahTheHaider.

You'll also find her published articles in the online magazine, Free Inquiry. Sarah's talks have been featured on YouTube.

This podcast has been brought to you in association with Areo magazine. To support us, visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/Areo

2:17 Why Sarah hates the term community

11:15 The different types of atheists

15:00 Cleaning up the left, why we focus on that

23:32 Atheists in India

25:00 Arguments that now’s not the time to stick to certain principles because we need to fight Trump

27:00 Intersectionality and the prioritising of certain groups over others

28:21 Opposing both racism & Islamic extremism

28:57 The Left and Islam

33:56 Insincerity in dialogue, language as signalling

45:17 Separating ideas from people in the case of Muslims

49:05 The Intellectual Dark Web

55:47 The risks of honesty and activism—Sarah’s experience of the smears & taints that come with that. The temptation to join a tribe.

1:07:29 Sarah on genetic differences, race & the idea of human dignity

1:10 Science, ethics and how to use data; dealing with embarrassing facts

1:15 Second-generation Muslims in the US versus in Europe

1:17 The melting pot versus the mosaic model of integration: immigrants and identity, including Sarah’s own experiences

1:26 Sarah’s own relationship to religion

Tea for Two: A podcast about politics, culture and society and about how everyone is wrong except us. With Iona Italia, Helen Pluckrose and guests.

Episode 1: Introduction to our podcast.

0:00. Our backgrounds and how we came to hold our current ideas of secularism & universal liberalism

10:27 A summary of my political views—Iona

14:00 Why we dislike the concept of privilege

19:07 Universal liberalism: strengths and shortcomings—Helen

23:31 The social justice left approach versus the universal liberal approach—Helen

26:00 Why I mostly critique the left—Iona

30:00 Free speech

34:08 Why I mostly critique the left—Helen

38:16 Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve—Iona; our views on Murray and race and IQ in general

45:00 Differences between men & women

47:10 James Damore’s memo

55:38 The importance of amicable disagreement

1:01 Cross-generational connections—Iona

1:04 Separating the people from the ideas

1:06 Anti-black/brown racism and anti-white racism; FGM & circumcision

1:12 Similarities and differences between Helen and me.