Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss luxury beliefs and the concept of "elite misinformation."
Ruxandra Teslo is a PhD student in Genomics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She writes about science and culture at Ruxandra’s Substack.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss Rob Henderson’s concept of luxury beliefs, i ... Show More
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Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. He has been working in the field for over a decade, after previous experience at Microsoft an ... Show More
1h 29m
Nov 22
The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting
Edward Luce, Russell Muirhead, Lauren Harper Pope, and Yascha Mounk on this week’s news.
In this week’s conversation, Ed Luce, Russ Muirhead, Lauren Harper Pope, and Yascha Mounk discuss the recent Saudi visit and what it says about Donald Trump’s broader foreign policy, the dir ... Show More
44m 45s
Nov 18
James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators
James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and James Loxton explore different types of authoritarian regimes, why they fail, and ... Show More
1h 12m
Apr 2025
The Science and Ethics of De-Extinction
<p>Recently, a Dallas-based biotech company, Colossal Biosciences, announced that it has been able to resurrect a species of wolf that went extinct around 12,500 years ago. It claims these dire wolves are the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animals.” What does this mean ... Show More
35m 50s
Mar 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton UP, 2025). The book examines the institutional failures during the pandemic, including the politicization of science, inconsistent mes ... Show More
52m 57s
Oct 2024
Alex O’Connor on AI Consciousness, The Woke Agenda, and Debating Ben Shapiro
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2h 18m
Aug 20
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State’s Digital Evolution
There aren’t many Ivy League professors as bold as Dave Collum. It’s amazing he still has a job. (00:00) How Collum Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis (11:00) Collum’s Mission to Uncover the Truth About Covid (19:36) Government Experiments Being Conducted on Foster Care Children ... Show More
2h 23m
Feb 2025
English listening Practice with Health News Stories Ep 798
Is America about to shake up its entire health system? With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stepping into a powerful government role, big changes could be on the way. But why is he such a controversial figure? And what does his appointment mean for food safety, vaccines, and healthcare in ... Show More
14m 59s