The past 18 months have opened my eyes in ways I could not have imagined. I would say I’m taking the red pill, but that has been co-opted as a phrase by the same people who took the word woke – to paraphrase Homer Simpson, that used to be our word. Regardless, I…
Author: Josh Hamilton
Chatter #175 – Peter Boghossian On The Cult of Woke, Idea Viruses, And Renewing Our Institutions
Dr. Peter Boghossian’s main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years and 30 thousand students – in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies, and small businesses. His…
Chatter #174 – James Lindsay On Woke Ideology, Shared Stories, And The Decline Of Liberalism
An American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and…
Chatter #173 – Dr Martin Libicki On Information Warfare, Espionage, And Cyber Sovereignty
Martin Libicki (PhD, U.C. Berkeley 1978) holds the Keyser Chair of cybersecurity studies at the U.S. Naval Academy. In addition to teaching, he carries out research in cyberwar and the general impact of information technology on domestic and national security. He is the author of a 2016 textbook on cyberwar, Cyberspace in Peace…
Chatter #172 – Gavin Esler On English Nationalism, Scottish Independence And The Breakup Of The UK
Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and four non-fiction books, most recently How Britain Ends – English Nationalism and the Re-birth of Four Nations. It’s a forensic examination of the way in which resurgent English nationalism is pulling the United…
Chatter #171 – Mo Hormozzadeh On Escaping Iran, GameStop, And Price Manipulation
Mo Hormozzadeh is a CFA level 3 candidate, holds a Masters degree in Financial Engineering, from NYU, and a Bachelors in Economics. He fled Iran after being arrested for publishing magazines on his university campus speaking out against the government that led to him spending 16 days in jail and being expelled from…
