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April 12, 2019 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & B. D. McClay
Culturally Determined
B. D.'s essay on mononucleosis and gnosticism
What the ancient gnostics believed about body and spirit
Fingernail clippings and other problems with bodily resurrection
Pros and cons of living in a body
Did George H.W. Bush get to walk out of his wheelchair at the gates of Heaven?
B. D. explains the Children's Crusade of 1212
The Children's Crusade's contemporary resonances
Queer Eye, the reality show that makes you feel good about humanity
April 26, 2018 — Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Sophia
Is masculinity treated as a pathology?
Why girls are outperforming boys in class
Disentangling gender and sex, culture and biology
"Girl power" was a success, but at what social cost?
Crispin's years as a teen revolutionary
The modern school as a totalitarian institution
What really explains high-security schools?
How safe can we reasonably expect to be in society?
Is the media distorting our narratives of crime and danger?
March 07, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Helen Joyce
Sophia
Helen's forthcoming book on gender
Why are younger women attracted to novel gender theories?
Social constructivism vs. self-constructivism
Did feminists bring this upon themselves?
Helen: Immigration caused Britain's political realignment
Helen's narrative of the evolution of trans identity
Why is it harder to be a girl now, when society is less sexist?
Dan: Online porn has made teenage boys undateable
September 08, 2015 — Temple Grandin, Steve Silberman, & Brian Degenhart
Unraveling the history of autism
Preparing autistic children for productive lives
Successful adults on the autism spectrum
Temple and Steve recall first meeting Oliver Sacks
The link between genius and disability
The immortal life of Oliver Sacks
October 21, 2015 — Joshua Knobe & Abigail Marsh
Abby's research on children with psychopathic traits
Why psychopaths are good manipulators
Are psychopaths born or made?
Inside the brain of a psychopath
"Anti-psychopaths"--people with very high empathy
The link between empathy and recognizing fear
March 05, 2018 — Philip Menchaca & Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble
Growing up Very Catholic
Sister Theresa's atheist youth and subsequent return to faith
Finding a calling within the Church
Why remembering her own mortality is essential to Sister Theresa's faith
Sister Theresa: Not all believers understand their children's doubt
March 03, 2020 — Nikita Petrov & John Horgan
Nikita's new project, Psychopolitica.com
A collection of DMT stories
The drama and the silliness of life as experienced by children
The ontological status of DMT entities
Three big pretenses: "I exist," "I know what's going on," "Everything is ok"
Between a zombie and a madman
The paradoxical writings of Jorge Luis Borges
John's new book, Pay Attention
Podcasting is the new rock'n'roll
June 02, 2019 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Marshall
Culturally Determined
Remembering the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s
How the McMartin case launched the panic
Sarah: Recovered memory therapy created the idea of Satanic ritual abuse
Why hasn't there been a large-scale reckoning with the panic?
Contemporary resonances: witch hunts and moral panics
Sarah visits Disney World and thinks about desire
Why are there so many absent mothers in the Disney canon?
July 29, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katie Herzog
Culturally Determined
What Katie saw at the Jordan Peterson roadshow
Is Peterson peddling bunkum?
Katie defends Peterson against charges of racism
Peterson's views on gender: traditionalist, sexist, or misogynist?
Peterson as a holy fool
Jesse Singal's controversial Atlantic cover story on detransitioning
Is the media telling the wrong stories about trans people?
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