Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman
How much of what we call "basic morality" is actually inherited from Christianity? Bart Ehrman joins Michael Shermer for a wide-ranging conversation about one of the biggest moral questions in history...
28 Mar 1h 12min
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West
Michael Shermer sits down with novelist and essayist Lionel Shriver for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when old political labels stop making sense. Shriver reflects on the strange mora...
24 Mar 1h 25min
The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy
Zion Lights used to be deep inside the environmental movement: protests, arrests, road blockades, the whole thing. Then she started looking closely at the evidence around nuclear power and found that ...
17 Mar 1h 8min
DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits
Jeremy Jones joins Michael Shermer to talk about DOGE AI, government fraud, and the strange reality that some of the biggest problems in public life are both widely known and somehow never fixed. Jone...
14 Mar 1h 28min
Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right
Why do some world-changing ideas get ignored, attacked, or buried for years before anyone takes them seriously? Michael Shermer sits down with The Economist science correspondent Matt Kaplan to discus...
12 Mar 1h 2min
Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"
Michael Shermer responds to a remarkable letter from a group of eighth graders at a Christian school in Texas who say they've been praying for him and want to talk about Christianity, Jesus, and the B...
8 Mar 52min
Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way
For decades, developmental psychologist Jay Belsky has focused on one of the biggest questions in human development: how do early experiences shape the lives we go on to live? In this conversation wit...
6 Mar 1h 37min
Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing
Publishing likes to imagine itself as a marketplace of ideas with a strong immune system: good arguments win, bad ones fade, and editors act as principled gatekeepers. In practice, it's also an indust...
26 Feb 1h 31min
