The Michael Shermer Show

The Science of Revenge: Why Getting Even Feels So Good

Why No One Thinks They’re in a Cult

Was Benjamin Franklin America’s First Scientist?

COVID-19: What We Learned (and Didn’t) About Masks, Lockdowns, and Vaccines

The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment

Jim Lampley on Hosting the Super Bowl, Calling Tyson’s Fights, and His Friendship with O.J.

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Shermer Reflects on Political Violence

The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics

Why Do Humans Speak?

Depopulation: The Silent Global Emergency

Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion

Can We Prevent Aging? Eric Topol on Genes, Lifestyle, and AI in Healthcare

Why the Left Needs Its Own Reckoning

Drowning in Decisions: Do We Have Too Many Choices?

Are We Alone? Martin Rees on Aliens, The Fermi Paradox & The Fate of Humanity

The True Cost of Conviction

Debra Soh and Michael Shermer at FreedomFest 2025

Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution

Can Politics and Truth Coexist?

Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife

Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism

The Myths of American Capitalism Explained

Believing Is Seeing: Inside the Modern Paranormal Movement

Inside the CIA’s Mind Control Experiments

Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization

AI, Trade Wars, Degrowth: What's Next for the Global Economy?

Is Modern Life Making Us Miserable? What’s Fueling the Mental Health Crisis & What Can Help?

Free Speech Under Fire? From Campus Protests to Deportations

Is It Possible to Change Your Entire Personality?

The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions

Did Shutting Down Schools Help or Hurt? A COVID-19 Postmortem

What’s Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility

Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control

Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn’t Hers

What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning

What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?

Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin’s Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley)

The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain

Does the West Need a Religious Revival? (Shermer Solo)

Money, Lies, and God

Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI

New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life

Sex Work, Ethics, and Evolutionary Psychology: What REALLY Happens on Sugar Daddy Websites?

Half a Thousand Episodes: Still Chasing Truth

The Faith Deficit: Does America Need a Spiritual Backbone?

The Psychology of Serial Killers

What if Death Isn’t the End? The Science of Forever

What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology

How to Start a New Country

How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets