Aporia Podcast

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'What an interesting question!' | Bryan Caplan May 21, 2023

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Aporia Magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and the New York Times Bestselling author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders, and Labor Econ Versus the World. In this podcast, Diana speaks with Bryan about many topics (timestamps below), but centres the conversation around his book Don’t Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. You should subscribe to Bryan’s superb Substack: https://betonit.substack.com/

Based Feminism | Louise Perry May 06, 2023

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Louise Perry is a journalist and author based in London, UK. She is a columnist for UnHerd and a features writer for the Daily Mail. Louise hosts Maiden Mother Matriarch, a podcast about sexual politics, which is available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast platforms. Subscribe to her Substack here: https://louiseperry.substack.com/

Our Magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/

Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine

Not without a fight! | Amy Wax Mar 25, 2023

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Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy attended and graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry in 1975. She then attended Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in Physiology and Psychology. Wax then went to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School, before doing a residency in neurology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and working as a consulting neurologist at a clinic in the Bronx and for a medical group in Brooklyn. She completed her legal education at Columbia Law School whilst working part-time.

Wax has argued 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court. She received both the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2015, she received a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, making her one of three Penn Law professors to have received the award in 20 years.

In 2017, the mob came for her tenure. In 2018, she was stripped of her teaching duties. You can support Amy’s fight below:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/amy-wax-legal-defense-fund

https://amywaxdefense.org/

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:32 How did Amy’s scientific training influence her opinions

2:54 ‘The beating heart of wokeism is race’

7:05 Asians & immigration

12:37 Jews and other immigrants

23:15 Have we reached a tipping point with immigration?

26:20 Sex education should be banned

29:14 Respectable girls did not have sex

30:37 Are shame and stigma good?

32:50 Neo-trads

36:07 Amy’s relationship advice her children

39:10 Your children are not you

41:52 How Amy planned her life

44:55 Jewish duty?

47:10 Dinner table talk about the West

49:15 Gratitude for our ancestors

50:15 The non-negotiables of dating

53:10 Politics is corroding dating

55:18 Feminization of the academy

1:04:20 Should we have male-only universities?

1:06:34 How you can help Amy!

1:11:08 Sneak preview of bonus questions

Make Behaviourism Great Again | Diana Fleischman - ISF Podcast E40 Mar 04, 2023

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Diana Fleischman is an American evolutionary psychologist. Her field of research includes the study of disgust, human sexuality, and hormones and behavior. Diana will be hosting her own show with us, so we thought you’d like to get to know her!

Diana’s Substack, Twitter, and website.

Meritocracy, HBD, and Embryo Selection | Adrian Wooldridge - ISF Podcast E39 Feb 25, 2023

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Adrian Wooldridge is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Adrian was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College. Before joining Bloomberg, Adrian worked at The Economist for over 20 years. He is the author of several books, including Capitalism in America: A History, co-authored with Alan Greenspan, and, most recently, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.

Enter our Dysgenics Award competition: https://www.ideassleepfuriously.com/p/the-first-dysgenics-awards

The Case For Pronatalism | Malcolm Collins - ISF Podcast E38 Jan 21, 2023

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Malcolm Collins is a neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur-turned-VC-turned-education innovator. Along with his wife Simone, he is one of Amazon's top 100 best-selling non-fiction writers. Learn more about their work below.

The Pragmatist Foundation: https://pragmatist.guide

The Collins Institute for the Gifted: https://collinsinstitute.org

Malcolm and Simone's latest books:

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatists-Guide-Governance-optimizing-governance/dp/B0BSJ5SXHM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Simone+H+Collins&qid=1674304558&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorr

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatists-Guide-Crafting-Religion-Demographic/dp/B0BSJ5SXK2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Simone+H+Collins&qid=1674304558&s=audible&sr=1-2-catcorr

Timestamps:

2:46 Malcolm explains why he and his wife did embryo selection

7:18 Do people realise what they’re arguing for?

10:15 Overlooking positive pleiotropy & other bad arguments

17:18 Malcolm’s theory of the cultural super virus

18:25 Malcolm's general pessimism & falling birth rates

22:02 The case for optimism: religiosity, ritual, and exogenous motivators

23:47 Should we talk about the dysgenic effect on IQ?

24:44 The role of religion in this brave new world

26:55 Religion as a cultural software package

30:18 Malcolm’s plan to save the world!

33:28 Malcolm's idea of “descendant worship” & his thoughts on belief

34:28 Can artificial beliefs really take hold?

38:35 Is our current progress a blip & how a neo-Byzantium can survive

41:08 How many people would actually use genetic technology?

45:20 The ick factor of genetic tech

46:42 The costs and pains of IVF

52:40 Malcolm's 'theological mandate' to create a technophilic culture

54:35 Malcolm and Simone's gifted school and thoughts on improving education

1:04:17 Taking the precautionary principle when introducing new technology to children

1:06:32 A critique Malcolm respects

1:08:37 Malcolm’s recommended reading

1:09:59 Malcolm’s most controversial opinion

The Post-IDW World | Auron Macintyre - Ideas Sleep Furiously Podcast E37 Jan 14, 2023

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Auron Macintyre is a columnist and host at The Blaze. He also writes on Substack. Auron rose to prominence as a “dissident right” thinker, making popular YouTube videos on topics from what’s come to be called elite theory.

Timestamps:

1:17 Auron introduces himself

3:20 Racial imposter syndrome

6:03 Whites looking for valid status

8:27 "Nonsense as a uniform”

12:42 The failure of the Intellectual Dark Web

16:18 Steelmanning the popularity of Jordan Peterson

18:40 The Overton Window of Intellectuals

22:40 Controlled opposition without a controller

24:31 What does victory look like in the face of total institutional capture?

27:53 Secessionism, federalism, and societal breakdown

30:40 Cultural decline vs material progress

36:12 Right-wing tensions

40:00 Our role in the cycle of civilisation

43:03 Reconciling theology and techno-optimism

52:36 Can biotech be deployed responsibly in our current political climate?

55:15 What will post-liberalism look like?

57:30 If Auron could only undo one aspect of post-60s culture, what would it be?

Migrants & Cultural Change | Garett Jones - Ideas Sleep Furiously Podcast E36 Dec 24, 2022

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Garett Jones is Associate Professor of Economics and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. His first book, published in 2015 by Stanford University Press, is entitled Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own, and was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. His second book, also with Stanford, published in 2020, is entitled 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less, and was reviewed in The Economist.

Garett's most controversial opinion: https://www.ideassleepfuriously.com/p/garett-jones-most-controversial-opinion

Pig Men Shall Inherit The Earth | Razib Khan - Ideas Sleep Furiously Podcast E35 Dec 04, 2022

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Razib Khan is a master of decoding ancient DNA to tell fascinating stories about our history and heritage.

Timestamps:

2:39: Three mindblowing facts from ancient DNA research

6:10 Will it be possible to know the average IQ of classical Athens?

8:35 How much signal do we lose if the population is representative?

10:15 Is there really more genetic diversity within Africa?

15:02 Is gene-culture co-evolution a kind of bottleneck or sieve?

18:45 Fighting between hunter-gatherers and farmers

24:15 Psychopaths as a development of mass society & the need for security

27:20 Dysgenics and the cyclical theory of civilizations

40:40 Modalities of innovation

44:15 The timeline for genetic engineering, speciation, and runaway selection 56:10 People are masturbating

57:00 Is immortality on the cards?

1:05:00 Is this the last century of technological civilization?

1:08:20 Changing aesthetic standards, the need for wisdom, and werewolves

1:15:43 When will we be able to talk about group differences freely?

1:16:52 Will conservatives inherit the Earth?

Hanania's Greatest Hits (So Far) | Richard Hanania - Ideas Sleep Furiously Podcast E34 Nov 20, 2022

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Richard is President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, whose Substack output you can find here.

He also has his own Substack. His academic interests include nuclear policy, American grand strategy, political psychology, the politics of the Middle East, and international law. In today’s podcast we do a deep dive into his most interesting articles.

You can find him on Twitter here.

Timestamps:

2:31 Richard’s background and journey through academia

6:07 Is academia really that bad?

9:15 Is international relations a lost cause?

12:55 Why women’s tears win

16:20 Do conservatives like foreign policy because they get to be macho?

18:50 Should most women leave the academy and have children?

22:50 Should most people walk away from the academy?

28:25 Why is understanding civil rights important for fighting wokeism?

32:00 Is wokeness inevitably downstream from civil rights law?

41:40 Blank slatism and left-wing conformism