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December 01, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Sabine Hossenfelder
The Wright Show
- Sabine's new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Sabine: There's no reason to think the four fundamental forces can be unified
- What "beauty" means to a physicist
- The weirdness of the Higgs Boson
- Must there be an explanation for the fundamental forces?
- Sabine: Multiverse theory isn't science
- What Sabine wants physicists to be doing instead of chasing beauty
August 02, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Karl Giberson
The Wright Show
- Why Adam is crucial to Christian theology
- What happens when the Biblical Adam encounters modern genetics
- The "slippery slope" of critical inquiry
- What do you need to believe to be a Christian?
- Trying to reconcile God as Creator with natural selection
- Evolutionary psychology and the doctrine of original sin
January 14, 2017 —
Robert Wright & Mark Juergensmeyer
The Wright Show
- How Mark got his start studying under Reinhold Niebuhr
- Using religion to justify violence
- The appeal of ISIS's apocalyptic vision
- What Obama got right--and wrong--in his response to terrorism
- Will Trump's war on terrorism lead to another 9/11?
- What would Reinhold Niebuhr say about religion and violence today?
- Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism
December 18, 2016 —
Nikita Petrov & George Young
- Does Russian thought have anything to contribute to the world?
- Nikolay Fedorov, an eccentric thinker who influenced Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
- Fedorov's plan: Immortality for everyone
- "Kinship" as a fundamental property of all matter
- A mass movement for the spiritual unity of humankind
- Vladimir Solovyov's The Meaning of Love: Sexuality as a path to a Christian utopia
- Christ as the ultimate role model
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