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37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke
37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke
New Yorker writer and book author Andrew Marantz and Eric became friends shortly before the 2016 election when Andrew se... Read more
1 Jul 2020
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2: What Is The Portal?
2: What Is The Portal?
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17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”
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Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works ... Read more
21 Dec 2019
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35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus
35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus
Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in bet... Read more
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7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X
7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X
Eric sits down with Bret Easton Ellis; the two Gen X’ers graduated from rival high schools in a disaffected 1982 Los Ang... Read more
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10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree
10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree
Eric sits down with Julie Lindahl, author of "The Pendulum". What happens when an ethnically German girl growing up in B... Read more
31 Oct 2019
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1hr 41mins
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30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ro... Read more
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21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart
21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart
Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free speech movement. Jim M... Read more
1 Feb 2020
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36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. ... Read more
11 Jun 2020
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11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends
11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends
On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru... Read more
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6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual
6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual
Jocko Willink is a man who radiates decency. He is also part of a community of warriors drawn to test themselves in the ... Read more
7 Sep 2019
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33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future
33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future
Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital is a leading mind in the current wave of venture capitalists making waves. While aware of eac... Read more
3 May 2020
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4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception
4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception
What if everything we are taught in economics 101 is not only wrong, but may even be setting us up for populism, dictato... Read more
20 Aug 2019
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20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy
20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy
Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this... Read more
25 Jan 2020
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32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares
32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares
It is said that there is not one American dream but many, and few have lived more than JD Vance. Growing up in Appalachi... Read more
30 Apr 2020
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19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC
19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC
All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first ti... Read more
18 Jan 2020
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25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein
25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein
Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein, Eric recorded a solo episode that he ... Read more
7 Mar 2020
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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine
12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine
In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox econom... Read more
21 Nov 2019
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23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits
23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits
Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes i... Read more
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8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore
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In this episode of the Portal, Eric checks in with his friend Andrew Yang to discuss the meteoric rise of his candidacy;... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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