Dilemma Podcast

Ex-Settler Explains Why Israel Is Spiraling and Why Zionism Can Shapeshift So Easily

Daniel Klein was born and raised in Efrat, one of the largest religious Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank. His family helped build the settlement movement, an

Trump, Greenland, The Fight For the Top of the World - Militarization of the Arctic w/ Mia Bennett

In this conversation with geopolitical scholar Mia Bennett, we explore why the Arctic is no longer a frozen periphery but the front line of global power. From Vladimir Pu

What Do We Owe People Who Commit Horrific Crimes? Joseph Margulies on Forgiveness & Punishment

In this conversation, Joseph Margulies and I explore the difficult moral territory at the heart of his new book Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Inca

AI Acceleration, Climate Heating, Nuclear War: When The Global Goliath Collapses w/ Luke Kemp

Luke Kemp is a researcher of existential risk whose work spans the rise and fall of civilizations, the psychology of empire, and the future of humanity. In this wide-rang

From the Middle Passage to Elijah McClain: The Persistence Of Anti-Black Bewilderment

Michael Sawyer is the author of The Door of No Return, a sweeping work that challenges conventional ideas about race, history, memory, and modernity. In this conversation

Sam Harris's Israel Defense & The Unchallenged Assumption He Seems To Know Is A Problem

In this essay, I respond to Sam Harris's recent comments on Israel, Gaza, Hamas, and why he refuses to debate many of his critics. My argument is not primarily about geno

The Overlooked Idea That Could Solve The "Genocide" Problem with Scholar Dirk Moses

For decades, the word "genocide" has occupied a unique place in international law, collective memory, and political debate. But what exactly does it mean—and has the defi

Trita Parsi on Iran, Israel, Zionism, and America Finding It's Limits in Iran

Born in Iran in 1974, just years before the Iranian Revolution transformed the country forever, Trita Parsi has spent his life at the intersection of some of the most con

DEBATE: Did Zionism Steal Judaism? | Joshua and Amalek | The Jewish God | Animals and Morality

In round two with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, the conversation expands far beyond politics into morality, theology, identity, and the strange psychological world created by mod

Why This Holocaust Survivor Is So RARE In His Opposition to Zionism w/ Stephen Kapos

In this conversation, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos reflects on surviving Nazi-occupied Hungary, the trauma of the Holocaust, and why he believes Israel’s actions in G

Is There Something Modernity Refuses to See? | Justin Smith-Ruiu

Philosopher Justin Smith-Ruiu joins me for a deep conversation on Metaphysics, Consciousness, Philosophy of Science, Anthropology of Mind. Psychedelics, Ritual, Religion,

Deepfakes, AI Influencers, and Why Verification Is Failing

How do we know what is real anymore?In this conversation with Professor Siwei Lyu of the University at Buffalo, one of the leading researchers in AI generated imagery and

Elon Musk, The 22-Point Manifesto, "Muskism" & Tech's Antihumanism Philosophy | Tarnoff & Slobodian

What is “Muskism”? In this conversation, I sit down with Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian to unpack the political and moral philosophy behind Elon Musk—not just the man, b

This Rabbi Explains How Zionism Turned Jews Into Symbolic Human Shields | Yaakov Shapiro

In this long-form conversation, I sit down with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro—one of the most outspoken anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox rabbis—to explore one of the most misunderstood

The Most Absurd Dataset I’ve Ever Seen and A Troubling Truth About Liberation

The attitudes in American on Israel and Palestine have flipped, we can't ignore the fact that violence may have "worked."There’s a deeply uncomfortable question at the ce

Racism, Memory, and Erasure of the Roma People | The Acceptable Racism in Europe | Margareta Matache

I went into this conversation knowing almost nothing about the Roma. Which, as it turns out, is kind of an intentional result.Margareta Matache is a historian, author, an

Emily Jashinsky: Conservatives and Leftists | What Remains Unbridgeable in the Horseshoe? | Iran War

This conversation with Emily Jashinsky dives into one of the strangest political moments in recent memory — where parts of the left and right are beginning to sound eeril

Professor Jiang on His Painful Personal Path | Truth and Myth | A Search for Reality | Internet Fame

This conversation started with hesitation — both from my audience and from me. Professor Jiang has become a rapidly growing and deeply controversial figure online, with m

Peter Beinart on Epstein's Religion| Israel’s Iran Influence | Judaism at a Breaking Point

I sat down again with Peter Beinart to talk through what feels like a rapidly escalating and confusing moment — not just politically, but inside Judaism itself. We start

The Hiroshima Myth | Israel, Iran Escalation | Why Nukes Are Pointless but Possible - Ward Wilson

As tensions escalate between Iran, Israel, and the United States, the question of nuclear war no longer feels abstract—it feels immediate. With ongoing strikes, threats t