Conversations with Peter Boghossian

I asked Michael Shermer why the institutions built to find truth became its greatest liability. From alien life to Islamic immigration to the death of expert credibility, our institutions have betrayed public trust. More Michael Shermer Website Youtube Book:  Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters   See more from Peter here .

Britain is being transformed beyond recognition and nobody voted for it. I asked Matt Goodwin whether the mechanisms to stop it have already been dismantled. More from Matt Goodwin Writer, nearly 100k readers http://mattgoodwin.org   Author Suicide of a Nation https://shorturl.at/WHCLV   LinkTree https://linktr.ee/mattgoodwin More from Peter Boghossian .

Peter Boghossian walks through Central Park with poet, tarot reader, and bird whisperer Enrique Enriquez . They discuss augury, devotional joy, the language of birds, and the crisis of meaning plaguing young men. Contact Enrique here . Follow Peter Boghossian for more .

Hunter Ash left the left not out of disillusionment but logic. He and Peter Boghossian trace the path from progressive true believer to post-rationalist: Why language became a weapon, what the "progressive stack" is really doing, and whether liberal institutions can survive their own tolerance. See more Peter Boghossian here .

Global macro strategist Michael Every of Rabobank joins Peter Boghossian to dissect how conflict in the Middle East is fracturing global energy markets, exposing the fatal flaw in mainstream economic models: They assume everything returns to normal. From the Strait of Hormuz and dollar dynamics to "reverse perestroika" and the Taiwan question, Every builds a geopolitical and financial framework mo...

Is Islam compatible with liberal democracy? Peter and French economist Ferghane Azihari  follow the data where it leads. See what Peter's been up to here.

How did queer theory move from a deranged academic ideology to popular, received wisdom? Anita Bartholomew joins me to trace the ideology's rise and the cost to children. Watch full video here . Read more from Peter Boghossian

Philosophy professor and elite climber Bill Ramsey argues that a life without struggle cannot be fulfilling. The same honesty demanded by a rock face should be demanded of us by reason. Watch full video here . Follow Peter Boghossian

Angela Todd is the founder of PDX Real, a Portland Oregon based citizen journalist covering politics, crime, and the realities facing the city. Watch full video here . Follow Peter Boghossian

Europe is sleepwalking into a demographic crisis it may not survive. Jan Vandebeek , Dutch researcher and data scientist, joins Peter Boghossian to lay out the hard numbers behind mass immigration into Europe, the failure of multiculturalism, and what happens to liberal democracy when the population replacing it doesn't share its values. This is not a conversation about feelings. It's a conversati...

Hakim El Karoui is head of the Paris office of Brunswick, a UK-based communications consultancy. He has authored the report on Islam in France, Un islam français est possible, and Nouveau monde arabe, nouvelle politique arabe pour la France (the New Arab world, a new "Arab policy" for France). We discuss Islamism in France, the Far-Right and Far-Left, assimilation, and more. Watch this episode on ...

Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti is director and co-founder of the Observatoire de l'Immigration & de la Démographie (OID), a French think-tank that provides objective facts and data as well as legal recommendations for sensible immigration policies and effective border control in France and Europe. We discuss immigration data, integration challenges, the rise of Islam and anti-Semitism, political constrain...

Thibault de Montbrial is a prominent French lawyer, security expert, author, and public intellectual known especially for his work on internal security, counter-terrorism, and public order in France. He spent over 30 years working against radical Islam and its growing threat in France and Western Europe. He shares his firsthand experiences, insights on the socio-political dynamics, and the challen...

Franklin Camargo has a number of radioactive beliefs. He thinks America's incarceration rate is too low. That Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history (I baited him on that one). We get into his beliefs and I challenge him with arguments from left, right, center, and stratosphere. Franklin is a political commentator who fled Venezuela after the Maduro regime accused him of terrorism...

Shabbos Kestenbaum is a 26-year-old Orthodox Jewish Harvard graduate who sued his university for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment and violence on campus. A week earlier, we'd had Raymond Ibrahim on the show. During that taping, our cameraman, a young man, got heated enough about what he was hearing that he interrupted the recording to challenge Raymond's claims. So wh...

Peter Boghossian, Reid Nicewonder, and Brett Hall review the show "Pluribus." Watch this episode on  YouTube. Listen to Part 1 of this conversation. Follow Peter Boghossian

Eric Meder is a privacy advocate who teaches people how to escape the "surveillance state." Watch this episode on  YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

The resurgence of Nazi sympathizers on the American Right demands unflinching scrutiny. That's why I sat down with John Kirbow , a US Army PSYOP veteran and counter-extremism expert, to dissect "Hipster Nazism". Hipster Nazism is a slick, social media-savvy strain of Jew hatred that's infiltrated conservative circles. Our conversation cuts straight to the core: How do these narratives spread? Why...

There's really only one question for any economist or political scientist to be asking right now: What will we be post-Trump? An imperialist dictatorship rampaging across the world? An industrial superpower? Impoverished and corrupt? Michael Every and I took our stabs at answering the question.  Watch this episode on  YouTube  and read more on  Substack . Follow Peter Boghossian

During my in-person interview with Raymond Ibrahim in LA, both of the cameramen freaked out and walked off the set. Two out of two! Our conversations touched on various aspects of Islam. Raymond's book Raymond's YouTube channel & X Watch this episode on  YouTube  and read more on  Substack . Follow Peter Boghossian

Author and friend of the show Lionel Shriver comes on to discuss the immigration topics in her new novel, "A Better Life." Buy Lionel's new novel, "A Better Life"  Watch this episode on  YouTube .  Follow Peter Boghossian

Kevin Dahlgren covers what's going on on the streets of Portland, Oregon. His work covers homelessness, addiction, policy, and other factors that have led to the decline of this city. Truth on the Streets Substack Watch this episode on  YouTube .  Follow Peter Boghossian

Author Steven Goldman comes on the show to discuss Albert Einstein's impact on philosophy. Watch this episode on  YouTube .  Follow Peter Boghossian

I'm very grateful that British Muslim apologist Subboor Ahmad came on the show. Subboor is a debater, writer, and podcaster who engages topics in philosophy, atheism, and evolutionary biology from a staunchly Islamic perspective. He has a master's degree in philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London, and he focuses on critiquing evolution and atheism while traveling globally to teach Muslims h...

Dave Silverman remains the most uncompromising atheist I've ever met (coming from me, that's quite the statement), and we've been friends for over a decade. Even when we've been on opposite sides of culture-war issues, we've never traded a harsh word. In this conversation, we talk about why identitarian leftists are unwilling to defend their beliefs, the Atheist movement, #MeToo, and more.  Watch...