Videos
A collection of 33 posts
Ritual Circumcision and Painful Initiation Rites in Aboriginal Australia
How Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey Help Russia Evade Sanctions
Communism's Christian Roots with Sean McMeekin
The Language of Soviet Propaganda (Narrated)
The Political Foundations of the DOGE Scam
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Podcast #272: The Great Divergence
Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.
This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
After October 7 with Pamela Paresky
Pamela Paresky interviews Israeli intellectuals, politicians, servicemen, and others in the wake of Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel.
An Interview with Jonathan Conricus
Pamela Paresky interviews the former IDF spokesman about the current war and the recent accidental killing of aid workers.
The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza
For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.
Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
The Life and Death of Unus Annus
The project provided a unique and occasionally profound experience and a new perspective with which many of its fans had not engaged before—and all that from a YouTube channel!
Australia’s Population Ponzi Scheme
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.