Aporia Podcast

Today I'm speaking with the Australian writer and retired lawyer, Helen Dale. Helen is best known for writing The Hand that Signed the Paper , a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in The Holocaust. The book was published in in 1994 and won the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's top literary prize. Helen became the award's youngest winner. However, controversy ensued afte...

Noah Carl is a British sociologist and independent researcher. He currently writes for a number of outlets, but his most consistent output can be found on Substack (link below). Apologies in advance if this conversation isn't up to the usual standard, Noah actually messaged me out of the blue asking if I wanted to do a podcast, so I only had an hour or two to put some questions together. We only h...

This week I’m speaking with Parker Settecase, a philosopher and host of the Parker’s Pensées podcast, which you can find here:   https://www.youtube.com/c/ParkersPens... I really enjoy Parker’s show. He interviews fascinating philosophers and theologians and gets deep into the weeds with them. Parker is also a Christian, so I thought it’d be interesting to chat about how his views have evolve...

Torill Kornfeldt is a Swedish science journalist, author and speaker focusing on biology and biotechnology. She is the author of two books. The first, The Re-Origin of Species, discusses the reconstruction of extinct animals using gene modifications. However, in this conversation we mostly speak about Torill’s second book, The Unnatural Selection of Us. We talk about the power of CRISPR, why China...

Nicholas Colangelo is a world-famous scholar in gifted education. He is the author of numerous articles on counselling gifted students and acceleration. He has edited three editions of the Handbook of Gifted Education. He co-authored the famous national report “A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students.  My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substa...

What you’re about to watch or listen to is my most important podcast so far. Today I’m speaking with Zac Kriegman.  Zac is a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters, perhaps the world’s most important news organisation. He’s a former director because he was fired after sharing research on the company's internal social media platform showing that American police killed more una...

John Jost talks about his childhood, education, cowboys and Indians, the psychology of political conservatism and system justification, the horseshoe theory of political orientation, ideological asymmetries, political polarization, capitalism, fear of socialism, the existence of racial microaggressions, being misunderstood by the left and the right, and the work of Ezra Klein, Mahzarin Banaji, Jos...

Peter is a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and a PhD candidate at Sheffield University. He is a multi-award-winning author for Bloomsbury Education and author and editor for Crown House Publishing on The Philosophy Foundation Series of books. He is a commissioning editor for The Philosophers' Magazine.  Peter read philosophy at University College London and Birkbeck Colle...

Emil Kirkegaard is a social scientist and prominent blogger focussing on a range of topics deemed controversial (and therefore interesting), from intelligence, to crime and migration. He publishes a very popular blog and Substack (links below). https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/   https://kirkegaard.substack.com/   My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  Patr...

Bo Winegard received his Ph. D. in Social Psychology from Florida State University in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Roy Baumeister. Winegard became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marietta College in 2018; he was fired in 2020. In this podcast, Bo shares his story. We talk about all things controversial in psychology and much, much more.  You can find Bo's writing here: http...

John Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and...

Jason Miller is an American communications strategist, political adviser and CEO, best known as the chief spokesman for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and transition of Donald Trump. He was a Senior Adviser to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. In March 2021, Miller became a contributor for Newsmax. Miller left his position as Trump's spokesman in June 2021 to become the CEO of GETT...

Ed Dutton is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Poland. Find out more about him here: https://edwarddutton.com/  If you'd like to subscribe to my Substack and learn more about giftedness, stupidity, and other interesting things: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and priva...

David Roberts studied undergraduate International Relations and Politics with an emphasis on the developing world. Inspired by a tutor, he undertook and completed a PhD on peacebuilding in Cambodia, at the time of biggest ever post-Cold War United Nations peacekeeping operation. His research centred on why the Khmer Rouge guerrillas refused to participate in the peacebuilding operation, and he fol...

Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. His research and teaching interests include political violence, pacifism and nonviolence studies, anarchist studies, political thought, politics and religion, and critical security studies. Read Alex's article here:  https://theconversation.com/ukraine-nonviolent-resistance-is-a-brave-and-often-effec...

Dr. Joseph Renzulli is a leader and pioneer in gifted education and applying the pedagogy of gifted education teaching strategies to all students. The American Psychological Association named him among the 25 most influential psychologists in the world. Dr. Renzulli received the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Award for Innovation in Education, considered by many to be “the Nobel” for educators, and was a c...

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist and prominent proponent of Blue Labour. He is a regular columnist for UnHerd.

Peter Hitchens is an English journalist and author. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. Peter has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, and the New Statesman. Peter has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and T...

Matt Wilson is the author of Rules Without Rulers: The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism. He is currently doing his second PhD at the University of Nottingham. The book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it woul...

Prof Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University and he reviews books for the The Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. We mainly talk about his magnum opus, The Intellectual Life of the Bri...

Anthony Magnabosco is a skeptic, well-known for his YouTube channel where he practices Street Epistemology (SE). Like a modern day Socrates he stops random people to have conversations about factual claims they make, in order to see if they have a good reason to believe them. His calm demeanour and ability to set people at ease makes for a wonderful antidote to a world of "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS SJW...

David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine. He's probably most famous for his 2017 book The Road to Somewhere in which  he argued that a fault line existed in Britain between "Somewheres", those people firmly connected to a specific community which consists of about half the population, and "Anywheres", those usua...

Macer Gifford is the pseudonym of a British former currency trader who travelled to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG militia against the Islamic State group. Macer went to fight ISIS not just once but twice. First in 2015 and again in 2016. In 2020, he released a book called Fighting Evil about his experience in Syria.  I got good Tweets:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep​  Suppor...

Eric Schwitzgebel is an American philosopher and professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind and the nature of belief. Support the show with a dollar/pound per video and get your name in the credits and my heart:   https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideo...