Is Julian Assange Being Unjustly Persecuted By The U.S. Government?
A UK court recently ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States. Assange faces serious charges over violating the Espionage Act, based on WikiLeaks' publication ...
2 Feb 202256min
We Took Hillary Clinton's MasterClass So That You Don't Have To
Hillary Clinton has just released an online course on "The Power of Resilience" through the website MasterClass, where celebrities teach their skills. The course has made the news because in it, she d...
19 Jan 202256min
Have Feminists Been Too Quick To Embrace Criminal Punishment?
Prof. Aya Gruber teaches criminal law at the University of Colorado Law School. Her book The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration makes the case that ...
19 Jan 202258min
What's Useful and Correct About Critical Race Theory? (w/ Randall Kennedy)
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy has been known for decades as a critic of Critical Race Theory, which was developed in part by his late colleague Derrick Bell. But Kennedy's critiques com...
19 Jan 20221h 9min
How Have Elon Musk and Tesla Gotten Away With So Much Lying and Fraudulence?
Today Nathan is joined by Edward Niedermeyer, an investigative journalist whose book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors remains the definitive critical account of the rise of Elon Musk a...
19 Jan 20221h 13min
Has "Wokeness" Become a "Religion"?
In this contentious conversation, Nathan speaks to Prof. John McWhorter about his book Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. Prof. McWhorter is a linguist at Columbia University,...
17 Jan 202239min
How Did The COVID-19 Pandemic Actually Start? (w/ Alina Chan)
Today's guest is molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan, a fellow at the Broad Institute and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She has been one of the most prominent commentators ...
17 Jan 202251min
Why We Should Reclaim Thomas Paine and FDR (w/ Harvey Kaye)
Prof. Harvey J. Kaye is the author of books like Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, and most recently Take...
13 Jan 20221h 2min
