Non-religious people still need to think about meaning and selfhood

J. Eric Oliver on knowing yourself without gods

Sep 8 • Matthew Sheffield

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August 2026

How scientists are fighting the Trump administration’s attempts to silence them

Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg on how scientists are supporting each other and realizing that being apolitical is a luxury belief

Aug 19 • Matthew Sheffield

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July 2026

How corporations took over the federal courts

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on how ‘corporatocracy’ works and why

Jul 22 • Matthew Sheffield

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Liberals want Trump gone, but what do they want instead?

Adam Gurri, founder and publisher of Liberal Currents joins to discuss ‘The Reconstruction Papers’

Jul 14 • Matthew Sheffield and Adam Gurri

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How Jeffrey Epstein did it

Greg Olear on the life and crimes of the deceased billionaire

Jul 7 • Matthew Sheffield and Greg Olear

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June 2026

Antivax arguments haven’t gotten any better in 300 years

Science writer Thomas Levenson on his new book, ‘A Pox on Fools,’ a history of anti-vaccine movements

Jun 16 • Matthew Sheffield

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The U.S. is inexperienced as a democracy, and it’s showing

Historian Lisa Corrigan on how Democrats haven’t learned how to wield power to preserve democracy

Jun 9 • Matthew Sheffield

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May 2026

Trump is at record-low approval, but Democrats have not been able to build their own public support

Historian Rick Perlstein on how America got this way

May 30 • Matthew Sheffield

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Pope Leo, Opus Dei, and the battle for the soul of Catholicism

Author Gareth Gore on Opus Dei and reactionary Catholics’ battle against modernity

May 25 • Matthew Sheffield

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Uncertainty makes science powerful — and incredibly vulnerable

John Horgan, author of ‘The End of Science,’ on how the biggest threat to science was not its own limitations

May 19 • Matthew Sheffield

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Chatbots aren’t conscious, but the specific details as to why are important

A discussion about minds, meaning, and artificial intelligence

May 15 • Matthew Sheffield

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MAGA is not a monolith, and that’s why Trump’s poll numbers have fallen

Pollster Stephen Hawkins on a new report that examines the seams in the MAGA coalition

May 8 • Matthew Sheffield

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