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June 08, 2018 —
Rev. William Dailey & Ross Douthat
- Ross's new book, To Change the Church
- The strengths and weaknesses of Ross's intellectual approach to faith
- Father Bill speaks from Ireland about the country's recent abortion referendum
- Ross challenges liberal Catholics to explain their logic of doctrinal change
- How marriage, divorce, and communion came back into Catholic conversation
- What will people who read Ross's book in a hundred years think of it?
September 01, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Ken Wharton
The Wright Show
- The future is real, and we could travel there
- Reasons to think the future may influence the present
- Can retro-causality explain quantum entanglement?
- Why our intuitions about time are wrong
- Is there a place for free will in a deterministic universe?
- The many worlds theory, quantum computers, and events without causes
June 22, 2019 —
John Horgan & Jeffrey Kripal
Mind-Body Problems
- Jeff's new book, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
- How John and Jeff make sense of Freud
- Jeff redefines the "paranormal"
- What belief in levitation or clairvoyance reveals about human nature
- Are hardcore atheists/materialists doing religious fundamentalism a favor?
- The death and rebirth of good old human narcissism
- Jeff on humanity's future and the nature of optimism
March 01, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Jason Pontin
The Wright Show
- Jason's tenure as editor of MIT's Technology Review
- Jason says he never, ever feels offended
- Why Jason's investment firm didn't back a new gene editing technology
- Is current gene-editing technology a "moral and therapeutic dead end"?
- How to regulate a future designer baby business
- What makes CRISPR gene-editing technology revolutionary?
- 3D-printing and the future of gun control
- Will mind-reading technology kill romantic love?
- The theoretical limits of "thought identification" technology
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