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February 08, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Douglas Rushkoff
The Wright Show
- Douglas's new book, Team Human
- Remembering when people behaved better online than IRL
- Douglas was optimistic about the Internet. Then came capitalism.
- Imagining a better Facebook
- Douglas: "Being human is a team sport"
- Tribalism and the Internet
- The false promise of "disruption"
- How capitalism complicates Douglas's life
June 29, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Nathan Eckstrand
Sophia
- Nathan's recent essay, "Is it Time for the Humanities to Strike?"
- The attack on the humanities goes international
- Are non-college graduates deficient voters?
- Why the educated elite aren't the most ethical people
- Could a strike re-engage the public with the humanities?
- How to win over those who most thoroughly reject the humanities
October 23, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Max Read
Culturally Determined
- Viewing the Trump-Kanye meeting through the lens of mental illness
- The shared traits that make Trump and Kanye irresistible to the media
- How online news and social media created the "attention economy"
- Did reality TV remake reality?
- Jake and Logan Paul: brothers, YouTube superstars, and possible sociopaths
- How social media helps people with mental illness
March 08, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
- Puppet show: Why are human emotions unique?
- Does self-restraint make us human?
- Considering emotions as social constructs
- Stephen: If you have emotions, you have consciousness
- Artificial intelligence doesn't necessarily defer to it its creator
- How insects are like robots
- Does culture change how the brain reads emotion in faces?
March 03, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Richard Prum
The Wright Show
- Darwin's approach to explaining the peacock's cumbersome plumage
- Could beauty have evolved, in part, for beauty's sake?
- The sense in which traits favored via mate selection may not be 'adaptive'
- Mate preference and aesthetics
- What can we learn from ducks' miserable sex lives?
- How paternal investment in offspring became part of human life
- When sex isn't for reproduction
- Richard's misgivings about evolutionary psychology
June 14, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
- Where do culture, emotion, and cognition intersect?
- Is altruism a fluke of humans' inherently selfish nature?
- How Western individualism clouds our view of human nature
- Stephen: The strongest cultural adaptations are shared unconsciously
- An evolutionary explanation of Trump's cult of personality
- Complicating the narrative on immigrant cultural values and success
- Reactions to Stephen's new book, Why We Need Religion
March 02, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Sophia
- Crispin's "Why They Suck" essay series
- Why in particular does Michelangelo suck?
- The contrasts in humanism represented in Italian and Northern Renaissance art
- The "ennobling quality" of human emotion in early Renaissance art
- Why Dan is a humanist and Crispin is not
- Identifying the internal incoherence of Michelangelo's work
- Dan: Judaism's approach to moral agency begins in the Garden of Eden
- Crispin questions emphasizing human endeavors over all others
August 23, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
- What is pleasure, and what isn't?
- How human will fits into philosophies of pleasure
- Addiction, brain chemistry, and the lies we tell ourselves
- Why are some people more prone to addiction than others?
- Addiction as a disease of deprivation
- Antonio Demasio's new book that rethinks culture and the roots of consciousness
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