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Thanksgiving and the art of disagreement
How to have a thoughtful holiday dinner conversation in the age of algorithms, binary thinking, and cancel culture.
Oct 30
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One queue is not like the other
Queues beget clues. But please, don't mistake this story as a redux of Tuesday's. There's something far more important going on in the line-ups beyond…
Oct 23
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When patterns reveal hidden evil
Brook DeLorme talks about apophenia, storytelling, and why some people see through the stories we are being told.
Sep 27
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Is 9/10 the new 9/11? Dr. Madhava Setty on truth, fear, and forbidden questions
Listen now | Twenty-four years after 9/11, the same patterns of censorship, narrative-setting, and public fear are playing out in real time. What does…
Sep 23
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The politics of the “perfect” yard
Why messy abundance is punished, curated rewilding is celebrated, and conformity still rules the ground beneath us.
Sep 16
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College is broken — here’s what to do instead
Forget college debt. Forget dead-end jobs. Matt and Maxim Smith share the blueprint for becoming capable, courageous, and even dangerous in today’s…
Sep 13
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Notes from the edge of civilization: August 31, 2025
In California, smoke gets in your eyes (and lungs!); in the Caribbean, a Syrian-style proxy war heats up; in Canada, organ transplants are MAiD to…
Aug 31
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How regimes of “compassion” are rewriting rights
Canadian lawyer Daniel Freiheit shares how Canada’s safety culture is mutating the country into a speech-policing, hike-banning, snitch-encouraging…
Aug 30
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'Don’t be a sucker' — 1947 had it figured out
Seventy-eight years on, this vintage film warning Americans not to fall for fearmongers still hits uncomfortably close to home.
Aug 19
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The rehearsal for Mars that's happening under Nashville
What does Elon Musk’s Music City tunnel have to do with civilizational collapse, Martian colonization, and technocratic control? Everything…
Aug 7
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Notes from the edge of civilization: August 3, 2025
Venmo the empire; programmable pricing = programmable behavior; how many seconds to the Singularity; the coming cognitive caste system.
Aug 3
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Who's really rebooting the world?
Courtenay Turner maps the hubris and characters influencing policy, culture, and the very architecture of civilization.
Aug 2
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