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Why can't we have real debates anymore?  Peter Boghossian talks with anthropologist Calum Nicholson about two forces eroding public life. First, we've lost the ability to argue in good faith, because we increasingly assume the other side is acting in bad faith. Second, science itself has become so subjective that it's turning anti-scientific, drifting away from finding truth and toward pushing political narratives. Together, they argue, these two trends have created the low-trust society we live in today.  So how did we get here, and how do we rebuild public trust? Follow Calum Nicholson • X • Substack Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Are some people's perspectives better than others?  Peter Boghossian and host of Debatology Peter Barrett start with that question and follow it wherever it leads: The collectivist mind versus the individual mind, and what role emotions should play when people talk across deep divides. Barrett argues that real conversation requires people to feel psychologically safe and willing to be vulnerable. Boghossian pushes back. The safety that matters isn't psychological, it is epistemic: An environment where people can question their beliefs, admit they were wrong, and change their minds without losing face. This is not semantics. It is a real, substantive difference. Follow Peter Barrett • Substack • X • YouTube • TikTok • Instagram Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Peter Boghossian cannot get a pro-trans activist to come on for these conversations, so he took on the role himself and interrogated James Esses with the strongest pro-trans arguments. Follow James Esses • X • Substack Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

A pastor says America should ban mosques. Now, he defends it LIVE. Dale Partridge is a Reformed pastor and open Christian nationalist. He leads King's Way Reformed Church in Prescott, Arizona, hosts the American Glory podcast, and wrote "The Israel Delusion." He doesn't hedge. Peter Boghossian will press him on what he believes, why he believes it, and how confident he should be. What you'll hear: • Islam as an "existential threat to Western civilization": Is it true, and what follows? • America as a Christian nation. • Freedom of religion as "a really bad idea": What replaces it? No safe spaces. No talking points. Just two people who disagree and test each other's ideas. Follow Dale Partridge • X   • YouTube • Instagram Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Her job is to protect Parliament. She just won an award for service. And in the photo: Finger on the trigger, muzzle pointed at a fellow officer. "It wasn't loaded." Rule #1 of gun safety: Treat every gun as if it is. Thousands noticed. The Met didn't order remedial training. It said the criticism was because she's Muslim. What would you trust this police force with? Policing? Gun safety? Evidence? And can an institution this corrupted by ideology ever recover? Peter Boghossian goes live with Paul Sharp: Retired police officer, firearms instructor, and BJJ black belt martial artist with over 40 years of experience.  Follow Paul Sharp ​​• X • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Did you know there's such a thing as "queer anthropology"? Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss says it's a sign of a much bigger problem. When a field abandons logic, falsifiability, and consistency, it stops being science and starts being ideology. Falsehoods get presented as truth, real problems go unsolved, and the past gets molded to fit the narrative instead of discovered. Peter Boghossian and Elizabeth dig into how anthropology got captured, what it costs, and what it will take to bring the field back, valuing evidence. Follow Elizabeth Weiss: • X • Website In Collaboration with Heterodox Centre  • YouTube   • X Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Rewrite the past, control the present. Professor Elizabeth Rata (University of Auckland) joins Peter to explain how invented history has become a key strategy of the new indigenist movement, and what it means for schools, science, and democratic citizenship. Follow Elizabeth Rata • Website • YouTube Elizabeth's new education series • https://elizabethrata.com/documentary Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

"We're going to graduate students who aren't faking it." AI can now write the essay, pass the exam, and fake the thinking. So what happens to education? Are universities making sure students can think for themselves, or are they producing graduates who outsource their minds to AI? Peter Boghossian sits down with Loren Rotner, associate provost at the University of Austin (UATX), to dig into it. What's actually wrong with legacy institutions? Why have so many stopped teaching students how to think? And what safeguards is UATX putting in place to make sure its graduates can reason, write, and argue on their own? Follow Loren Rotner • X To learn more about UATX:  • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Why is Gen Z killing themselves? Is therapy culture making it worse? Peter Boghossian sits down with author Pierre Valentin to examine how mental illness became part of identity. "It's okay not to be okay" started as a message of comfort. Has it instead turned the abnormal into the normal? Should every struggle be voiced publicly, or are some things better worked through privately? Have we outsourced to therapists what families used to provide? Has modern therapy, by encouraging a victim mentality, become part of the problem it claims to solve? Follow Pierre Valentin • X • YouTube   Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Is Canada broken? Mira Metter spent the last few years trying to answer that question, and the result is her new documentary, Broken Country. Join Peter Boghossian live with Mira and Mike Werry to dig into it. What's actually going on in Canada, how did it get here, and is there a way back? Peter also wants to know what Mira found that surprised her, and how she knows what she thinks she knows. Watch Broken Country: https://www.brokencountry.com Follow Broken Country • X Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Has the West lost sight of morality? And is that why it struggles to confront the spread of Islam? In this conversation, the roles are reversed. Raymond Ibrahim asks the questions, and Peter Boghossian answers. It starts with epistemology: What is it about how people in the West decide what's true that has left them unable, or unwilling, to confront Islam's spread? Where does the Western moral compass come from? What broke it? And is there hope? Follow Raymond Ibrahim • YouTube • X • Facebook • Instagram Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Is mass migration working for France, Britain, Austria, or anywhere in the West? Peter Boghossian sits down with the father of remigration, the hyper controversial Austrian "far right" Martin Sellner. Peter interrogates Sellner's proposed answer to mass immigration and Islam in Europe: Remigration. Peter presses Sellner throughout their conversation: Who decides who gets deported? What about citizens born in the West? Is Islam a unique threat to Western civilization? Peter even asked Sellner if he would support Peter's bid for Austrian citizenship. His answer should come as no surprise. Follow Martin Sellner • X Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

This one's personal.   Three years after October 7, Jew-hatred is nastier and more aggressive, yet most people turn a blind eye. Dave Silverman joins Peter Boghossian and UNLEASHES: Islam's rise. Jew-hatred. The Democratic Party. He calls the press a propaganda machine. Dave thinks they are the enemies of civil society.   Is he correct? Why are so few people willing to say it? Why won't those who disagree converse? And what's the cost of remaining silent?   Follow Dave Silverman • X   Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Viktor Orbán is out. Péter Magyar and the Tisza party promised Hungary real change. Can they deliver? Peter Boghossian is joined by Péter Krekó, a political scientist, social psychologist, and executive director of the Political Capital Institute in Budapest. Krekó has been one of Viktor Orbán's harshest critics for years, and now he's hopeful about Hungary's political change. Is that hope warranted, and how would we know if Magyar and Tisza fall short? Follow Péter Krekó • X • Facebook Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials

Peter Boghossian and Canadian political scientist Frances Widdowson discuss Cultural Genocide. Would the world be better off if some cultures were eradicated? We need to start having real conversations about societal decay. Follow Frances here:  • YouTube • Facebook • TikTok Find Peter Boghossian • X • Newsletter • Donate • Podcast • All Socials