It's a Brutal Time to Be Even Remotely Intell...

Seth Andrews addresses an often unpopular reality: We're all human, and humans can be fooled. Check out some examples of popular links and memes (shared by progressives and atheists) that aren't tethered to sources or are outright lies.VIDEO of this speech.Become a supporter of t ...  Show more

Seth attempts to describe the human anchors around our cultural neck. Plus your calls.The West Point articleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/thethinkingatheist--3270347/support. 

Anti-intellectualism is on the rise. And by "anti-intellectualism" we mean the backlash to scholars in fields like the humanities.According to two intellectuals, Dr. Ally Louks and Jason Stanley, the humanities help us better connect to other humans. According to a lot of online ...  Show more

Higher education is under attack. You've probably heard about the cases of Mahmoud Kahlil, Rumeysa Ozturk, and Alireza Doroudi. Students, studying in American universities being arrested and disappeared for their political stances. And our academic institutions are all too willin ...  Show more

Sam Harris speaks with Andrew Marantz about his book "Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation." They discuss the effect of social media on politics, the distinction between publishers and platforms, the problem of guilt by ...

What can the Stanford Prison Experiment teach us about the dangers of censorship in the the modern world?