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Point of Inquiry

Point of Inquiry is the Center for Inquiry's flagship podcast, where the brightest minds of our time sound off on all the things you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table: science, religio... Read more

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Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference

Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference

 This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Richard Dawkins for a special episode recorded before a live audience at the Cente... Read more

22 Jun 2015

1hr 9mins

Ranked #2

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Trying to Throw Science at Them: Yvette d'Entremont and Kavin Senapathy on Food, Fads, and Fear

Trying to Throw Science at Them: Yvette d'Entremont and Kavin Senapathy on Food, Fads, and Fear

We are living in a land of confusion, as the band Genesis warned us back in 1986, but even they could not have predicted... Read more

30 Dec 2017

59mins

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Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing

Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing

Host: Chris Mooney We had Lawrence Krauss on Point of Inquiry less than a year ago, to discuss his recent book on the sc... Read more

7 Feb 2012

32mins

Ranked #4

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Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites

Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites

Host: Chris Mooney  Our guest this week is Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes and editor at large of The N... Read more

19 Jun 2012

36mins

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Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind

Host: Chris Mooney Why is it that some of us are religious, some of us not... some of us liberal, some of us not? If you... Read more

19 Mar 2012

38mins

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Sarah Posner: How Trump Got His Hands on the Religious Right

Sarah Posner: How Trump Got His Hands on the Religious Right

How did a man living an ostensibly godless, hedonistic life become the champion of the very groups who one would expect... Read more

11 Apr 2017

30mins

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Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic

Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic

Daniel C. Dennett is one of the most influential philosophers of our time, perhaps best known in cognitive science for h... Read more

17 Jan 2017

33mins

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Be Not Constrained: James Croft on Humanists’ Responsibility to Fight Oppression

Be Not Constrained: James Croft on Humanists’ Responsibility to Fight Oppression

The modern conception of secular humanism arose in large part as a response to the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust, ... Read more

24 Aug 2017

1hr

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David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation

David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation

Host: Chris Mooney Can people who care about secularism take America back from the religious right? Of all the questions... Read more

16 Jul 2012

41mins

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles

Host: Chris Mooney This week, Point of Inquiry is thrilled to welcome back one of our most popular guests: Neil deGrasse... Read more

2 Apr 2012

37mins

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Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion

Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion

It’s been ten years since the publication of Sam Harris’s book The End of Faith kicked off the cultural phenomenon of “n... Read more

2 Sep 2014

49mins

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D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy

D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy

Host: Robert Price D.M. Murdock, who also goes by the pen name "Acharya S.," is the author of The Christ Conspiracy, the... Read more

28 Jun 2011

1hr 3mins

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Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

Host: Indre Viskontas There is no doubt that our world is populated with cheats and liars. Most of us, slaves to the ava... Read more

25 Sep 2012

32mins

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies

This week on Point of Inquiry, our guest is Ta-Nehisi Coates, a renowned journalist and celebrated essayist on culture, ... Read more

3 Aug 2015

31mins

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Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God

Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God

Richard Dawkins is the recipient of a number of awards for his writing on science, including the Royal Society of Litera... Read more

12 Dec 2019

45mins

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Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty on the Death Industry's Dirty Secrets

Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty on the Death Industry's Dirty Secrets

Point of Inquiry welcomes Caitlin Doughty, creator of the cult classic web series Ask A Mortician, which gives unvarnish... Read more

8 Sep 2014

30mins

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Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion

Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion

Host: Chris Mooney In late April, a study came out in Science that really got the secular blogosphere hopping. It was a ... Read more

4 Jun 2012

32mins

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Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

Host: Indre Viskontas According to the USDA, Americans produce and consume more beef, veal, and chicken than any other n... Read more

28 Aug 2012

44mins

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Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion

Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion

We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in caves rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than wear s... Read more

23 Jun 2014

34mins

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Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet

Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet

We want to believe that climate change can be stopped, that humanity can summon the political will to take decisive and ... Read more

12 Jun 2017

48mins

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