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Would humans invent God if they had never encountered religion? Is religious belief an inevitable part of human civilization?Ilan Stavans examines the relationship between language, religion, and human thought. He argues that language enables us to conceptualize the divine and th ...  Show more

We welcome Alexander Klein to examine the role of consciousness in behavior. Drawing on William James’s evolutionary theory and nineteenth-century experiments on frogs, Klein considers whether consciousness is essential to purposeful action or merely accompanies it. The conversat ...  Show more

We are joined by philosopher Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader, the Dean of Research at Bethlehem University in Palestine for a roundtable on the war on Gaza, otherwise known as the "2023 Hamas-Israel war". We discuss the politics of the current war, the status of Islamist polit ...

Israel says Hamas has just weeks to release all remaining hostages before it launches a deadly assault on the Gazan city of Rafah. Prime Minister Netanyahu has rejected the latest round of negotiations as “delusional.” But with the Palestinian death toll now exceeding 29,000, pre ...  Show more

Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the events of October 7th and the resulting war in Gaza. They discuss the unraveling of global order, the failure of the IDF, the incompetence of the Netanyahu government, the goals of Hamas, the Saudi peace treaty, the right of I ...