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303 - Professor Jiang: Trump Picked the Wrong War | On Iran, Israel, and America’s Decline

Support the Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxwneBx6apV1mQ7CbWKfXQ/join Jiang Xueqin, known online as Professor Jiang, is an educator and the creator of the YouT

Oct 31
3 h 13 min

302 - Michael Hudson: Trump Is Looting America | On Billionaires, Wall Street, and the Oil Wars

Support the Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxwneBx6apV1mQ7CbWKfXQ/join Michael Hudson is an economist, financial historian, and distinguished research professor

Oct 24
3 h 05 min

301 - Jessica Tarlov: Trump’s Economy Is Pricing You Out | On Fox News, Healthcare, Billionaires, and 2026

Support the Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxwneBx6apV1mQ7CbWKfXQ/join Jessica Tarlov is a political strategist and co-host of The Five on Fox News and Raging M

Oct 22
1 h 01 min

300 - Richard Wolff, Cornel West, & Norman Finkelstein: America Is in DENIAL | On Mamdani, Tucker, & Trump

Support the Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxwneBx6apV1mQ7CbWKfXQ/join Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amher

Oct 17
2 h 11 min

299 - Robert Pape: Trump Is Making Iran STRONGER—and America WEAKER

Support the Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxwneBx6apV1mQ7CbWKfXQ/join Robert Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and director o

Oct 15
1 h 25 min

298 - Rick Wilson: Trump Killed the Republican Party | On MAGA, Tucker Carlson, and 2028

Rick Wilson is a political strategist, author, and co-founder of The Lincoln Project. After decades working in Republican politics, he became a prominent conservative cri

Oct 13
1 h 01 min

297 - Anne Applebaum: Trump Is Building an Autocracy | On Putin, Kushner, and America’s Future

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic. Her work focuses on authoritarianism, democracy, and the history of Central and Eas

Oct 10
47 min

296 - Norman Finkelstein: Gaza SHATTERED Israel’s Story | October 7, Three Years Later

Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist and author who received his PhD in politics from Princeton University. His work focuses on political theory, the Israel-Palest

Oct 7
2 h 14 min

295 - Richard Wolff: Trump’s America Is OVER

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs a

Oct 3
2 h 29 min

294 - Michael Hudson: Iran, Oil, and Global Depression

Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Econo

Sep 28
2 h 02 min

293 - Justin Wolfers: AI, Inflation, & The 2026 Elections

Platypus Economics on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PlatypusEconomics Justin Wolfers is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan, where

Sep 26
1 h 03 min

292 - Jason Stanley: Breaking Down Trump’s Propaganda

Jason Stanley is the Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he is also

Sep 23
1 h 24 min

291 - Daron Acemoglu: AI Is Destroying American Democracy

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics at MIT and a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Simon Johnson and

Sep 20
1 h 00 min

290 - Nicholas Humphrey: Why Does Beauty Exist?

Why Is the World So Beautiful?: https://a.co/d/0d3LsupA Nicholas Humphrey is a theoretical psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the London School of Econ

Sep 13
1 h 17 min

289 - Joe Henrich: How Culture Made Humans Weird

Joe Henrich is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research focuses on cultural evo

Sep 6
1 h 01 min

288 - Richard Wrangham: How Humans Caught Fire

Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Emeritus, at Harvard University. A primatologist and biological anthropologist, he has studied wi

Aug 30
1 h 14 min

287: Daniel Lieberman: Evolution and the Human Diet

Daniel Lieberman is the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where he studies the evolut

Aug 23
1 h 12 min

286: Adam Mockler: Trump, Newsom, and the Dark Future of American Politics

Adam Mockler is a liberal political commentator, YouTube host, and digital media creator who has become one of the most prominent Gen Z voices in American political media

Aug 16
1 h 02 min

285 - Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: The Destruction of Modern Nations

Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the

Aug 9
1 h 59 min

284 - Steve Keen: The Economics of Global Warfare

Steve Keen is an economist and was most recently Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He has done research on a wide va

Aug 1
2 h 02 min

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What listeners say

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This is one of my favorite podcasts I’ve ever listened to. The interviewees are often people who explain their ideas for a living, so they can talk about even quite complicated things in very clear, understandable ways. Instead of simplifying ideas, they clarify their communication. The interviewer also has a background in philosophy and it shows. It stands out from the majority of podcasts about academic topics, because it gets into the meat of specific ideas rather than introducing broad topics. You’ll leave feeling like you actually have a grasp of the idea at hand.

wild monarch · Mar 2026

I discovered this podcast while looking for AI information from outside the usual (albeit valuable) tech silo. I’ve been delighted to find the discussions here so deep and wide-ranging. Excellent interviews. I rank this alongside Sean Carroll’s Mindscape and the better Lex Friedman stuff. I play new episodes as fast as they drop, and am gleefully working through the back catalog.

Jinx Dinkum · Jun 2025

Robinson is free to choose his guests in whatever way he wishes. That said, it’s worth noting that of his 250 episodes so far, only 13% feature women. As his guests are primarily from the fields of philosophy, mathematics and economics, the gender disparity of his podcast could be explained by the existing male dominance of these fields. But, of the academics working in those fields, approximately 25%- at least- are women. So, Robinson features even less women than the average percent of women in the field, which is already quite small. The best research on why this disparity exists rightfully concludes that it’s complicated, and there’s no way to know. Arguments about whether the male brain is predisposed to the types of thought required by these fields, or arguments about implicit bias or explicit hostility (which are generally anecdotal and cannot be proven)- each of these explanations fall apart under scrutiny, thetefore I can’t make any assumptions about Robinson’s reasoning for having so few women on his show. Maybe gender is not an important consideration in deciding who to platform. Or maybe women are not interesting. Maybe he invites them but they don’t want to talk to him, out of fear of stereotype threat. Maybe he doesn’t think about it, implicit bias. Maybe, and I doubt this but there’s no way to know, maybe he has an explicit hostility towards women. Again, on this issue, one can only conclude “there’s no way to know” and “we’re not sure it’s even important” and “for whatever reason, Robinson, who has full control of who he chooses to speak with, overwhelmingly chooses to speak to men”. I enjoy aspects of the podcast, and am not writing this with intent to smear, cancel or even persuade him to have more women guests (again, it’s his choice), but only to say the disparity is unusual and significant enough to be worth noting.

Lizzzzzzxxxxxxxxxxxxx · Apr 2025

The best podcast episode of any podcast I’ve listened to this year, Loewer and Robinson. Excellent questions and the responses will leave me researching through 2025.

AltasDad · Dec 2024

Please consider lowering the volume of commercials during the show. They are so much louder than the content that they significantly detract from a great podcast. I can’t listen with earbuds because they are so loud.

ixnu · Dec 2024

This podcast was once a unique place that one could hear academic philosophy discussed in depth with experts. Now it seems to be one of several dozen other podcasts that covers politics. It’s not necessarily bad, it just seems to be losing some of what made it special.

SeaJayy!!$ · Oct 2024

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