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EP 275 Rachel Winkler on Mass Deportation

Jim talks with lawyer and former DHS policy person Rachel Winkler about Trump’s promise to carry out a large-scale deportation operation. They discuss estimates of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., mixed-status households & the aging undocumented population, the legal standing of an undocumented immigrant, types of undocumented immigrants, the process for pending deportation orders, potential […]

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EP 274 Richard Overy on Why War?

Jim talks with historian Richard Overy about his new book Why War? They discuss historians’ shyness in thinking about the nature of war, a correspondence between Einstein & Freud, the meaning of the term, the “pacified past,” the interplay between warfare & cooperation, recent ethological studies of chimpanzees, conformity, 4 major types of anthropological evidence, the status

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EP 273 Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge

Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his new book UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge. They discuss the problem the book addresses, 3 vectors of knowing, the metacrisis, avoiding despair & techno-optimism, the enlightenment gap, the iQuad coin, the UTOK garden frame, a descriptive metaphysics for science, behavior & mind, endo-naturalism, 3 kinds of mindedness, webs

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EP 272 Loribeth Ford Jarrell on Bespoke Education

Jim talks with Loribeth Ford Jarrell, the director of Sumplicity Math, a mathematics enrichment program for children. They discuss working with the neural characteristics & firing patterns of individual children, education going modular, the microschool movement vs supplementary education, tutorial services, individual assessment, 10 vector dials, Jim’s education in proving the teacher wrong, identifying Jim’s learning

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EP 270 Nancy Jacobson on No Labels and the 2024 Election

Jim talks with Nancy Jacobson, the founder and CEO of the No Labels political organization, in the last of four conversations featuring non-partisan thinkers on the upcoming US presidential election. They discuss No Labels’s mission, the Problem Solvers Caucus, the common sense platform, the quality of No Labels volunteers, the power of party leaders, issues

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EP 269 Alex Ebert on the War on Genius

Jim talks with Alex Ebert about his recent essay “Suboptimal Revolution: In Defense of Inefficiencies.” They discuss what optimization does, genius vs democracy, negating the spatiotemporal experience of becoming a master, the decision-by-committee problem, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, dimensional collapse, the app Shazam, what happened to movies, preferred energetic states & the feat of problematizing,

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EP 268 Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Meaning

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his new book, The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process. They discuss Jim’s love for the book, the thinking behind the title, future books in the series, why Brendan avoided the word “religion,” the nature of meaning, dissipative systems, Shannon information vs semantic information, relations vs static

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EP 267 Richard Hanania on the Presidential Election and More

Jim talks with Richard Hanania in the third of four interviews with heterodox political thinkers on the upcoming US presidential election. They discuss the danger of “heterodox orthodoxy,” Trump’s election denial, disagreeing with the Democrats on policy, Jim’s critiques of both parties, religion’s impact on policy, Republicans as the party of low human capital, the

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