Conversations with Peter Boghossian

Is higher education completely broken, or is it worse than we think? Join me as I dissect the shocking systemic failures exposed by the Jason Arday scandal.
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Randy Pitchford joins Peter Boghossian to unpack how magic methods exploit human vulnerability to deception. If our brains instantly scramble to invent comforting lies to cope with a simple stage trick, how can we expect to spot the illusions deployed by politicians and charlatans?
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Peter Boghossian evaluates the weak, performative cowardice of public shaming with filmmaker Rob Feld. Their discussion shows how online tribal signaling prioritizes social status over truth and actively destroys authentic human relationships. Citizens must reject this self-indulgent behavior to survive political disagreement.
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Peter Boghossian and former New Zealand National Party MP Simon O'Connor expose how naive democracies choose comfortable blindness over imminent CCP threats. By bartering core values (liberties, freedoms) for Chinese trade (cheap goodies), the West invites cultural collapse. Ignorance currently costs nothing, but deep apathy erodes our security. If we keep it up, we'll sink our ship, and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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Can you cheat quantum entanglement using a mirror? Peter Boghossian asks physics researcher Maxime Desalle to reconcile bizarre parallel universes with the reality we observe. They dissect academic taboos, the Fermi paradox, and whether human consciousness creates its own illusions.
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