A conversation with entrepreneur Jaffer Ali about the inscrutable nature of marketing success, mainstream media manipulation, and the Big Data myth.
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A conversation with artist Bevan Ramsay about being, and pretending to be, an artist in postmodern America.
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A conversation with writer Jonathan Kay about his recent move to Quillette, Heterodox Academy’s conference in New York City, and the struggle to remain fair and objective in profoundly partisan times.
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A conversation with philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb about his new book: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018).
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A conversation with philosopher Patrick Lee Miller about parenting, love, relationships, death, mortality, honor, money, and the meaning of life.
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A conversation with historian Fred Bode about Paul Schrader’s First Reformed (2017), a thriller about despair, radicalization, terrorism, sin, and redemption.
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A conversation with historian Fred Bode and movie critic Matthew Hays about America’s love affair with disaster movies.
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A conversation with culture critic Ingrid Bejerman about growing up in Brazil, running a literary festival, and falling in love with Montreal.
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A conversation with entrepreneur Graeme Blake about teaching law school applicants how to game the LSAT, the strategies and challenges of starting and running a business, and the future of education.
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A conversation with film critic Matthew Hays about the Golden Age of Television, the demise of professional journalism, and the relationship between the idea of fake news and the media studies of the 1990s.
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A conversation with writer Stephen Marche about Toronto's heroic response to the recent van-attack, the 9/11 museum, and the relationship between celebrity and terrorism in a celebrity-obsessed age.
A conversation with historian François Furstenberg about French émigrés who fled the French Revolution and settled in Philadelphia, slavery in the French-speaking Caribbean, and the Haitian Revolution.
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A conversation with writer Joseph Rosen about Canadian Trumpsters, political polarization, Satan, Jordan Peterson, and rabbis on acid in Jerusalem.
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A conversation with columnist Barbara Kay about the return of the city-state, the problem with pit bulls, the Jordan Peterson phenomenon, and much else.
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A conversation with political scientist Kim Manning about leaving academia and running for public office with a frankly progressive agenda.
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A conversation with Princeton historian David Avrom Bell about his scathing critique of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now (2018).
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A conversation with writer Stephen Marche about Rob Ford, Jordan Peterson, celebrity politics, the male libido, the #MeToo Movement, werewolves, residential schools, fatherhood, and much else.
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A conversation with radiologist Francis Fortin about the role of doctors in the 21st century, hyper-specialization in medicine, artificial intelligence, physician-assisted suicide, and the right to die.
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A conversation with philosopher Daniel Weinstock about identity politics, the resurgence of populism, the relationship between city living and psychosis, and the future of liberalism.
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A conversation with Jonathan Kay, editor of The Walrus, about social media, right-wing populism, left-wing piety, Doug Ford, Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, and the future of journalism.
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