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Christmas Time and Regular Time
Damir Marusic has been reading the Bible this year for the first time. So Christine Emba and Santiago Ramos decided Christmas was the perfect occasion for interrogating him about what he’s learned and what he’s been thinking about.
The three discuss Freemasonry, Protestantism, Catholicism, Predestination and how Christianity is receiving new attention in Silicon Valley. Then, the conversation turns to Christmas traditions, and how the contemplative and party-going sides of Christmas complement each other.
Wishing you all the best with this bonus episode!
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A More (or Less) Perfect Union
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Yuval Levin on the American Constitution.
Episode 135: The Ideological Plates are Shifting | Wisdom of Crowds Podcast
มุมมอง 264ปีที่แล้ว
How important are ideological labels and how might they change over the next generation? A lot is on the minds of Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic this week as the two go on a winding discussion about political identity and ideological shifts amid a tribalistic political culture. The guys discussed the rarity of prominent figures publicly changing their political identity and the friction among Am...
Episode 134: Among the Unbelievers | Wisdom of Crowds Podcast
มุมมอง 283ปีที่แล้ว
Why is therapy replacing God on dating apps? If bad things happen, were they “meant to be”? When we say that everything happens for a reason, what do we even mean? This week, Shadi and Damir are back on the podcast together with close friend and guest Rachel Rizzo to discuss her stunning new essay, “Do Liberals Have a God Problem?” Recently, Rachel noted a striking contrast on dating apps: men ...
Episode 133: Is Spirituality Possible Without God? | Wisdom of Crowds Podcast
มุมมอง 202ปีที่แล้ว
As organized religion declines, particularly among younger Americans, a constellation of spiritual and sense-making phenomena appear to be taking its place. This week, Damir Marusic and Editor-at-Large Christine Emba are joined by the author Tara Isabella Burton whose upcoming book Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, chronicles how our sense of self has evolved ...
Ep. 132: Are Big Ideas Still Possible | Wisdom of Crowds
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Are there any “new” ideas left-and what makes an idea new in the first place? If we need new ideas to shake ourselves out of decadence, we should be careful what we wish for. Wokeness is one such “comprehensive framework.” Others might prove similarly frightening. This week, Shadi is joined by New York Times columnist and author of The Decadent Society Ross Douthat and the political philosopher...
Ep. 131: Looking for Happiness In All the Wrong Places | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 111ปีที่แล้ว
This week, Damir stages an intervention for Shadi. Lately, Shadi’s become gradually detached from the world of current events and political media. Damir probes to understand why, therein unraveling an episode that goes off the beaten path to discuss progress, happiness and meaning at a time when everything feels existential. Shadi maintains that while he isn’t divorcing himself from the comment...
Ep. 130: The Modern Nation Messed Everything Up | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 224ปีที่แล้ว
Can a cohesive nation survive without a common identity or shared values? That question is at the heart of this week’s podcast with political theorist David Polansky. Last week, David’s essay in Wisdom of Crowds rebutted the claim that the Israelites can be understood as a modern nation. Throughout history, various peoples, David argues, have coalesced around a shared sense of “peoplehood” with...
Ep. 128: What's There To Live For If You Only Live Online? | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 122ปีที่แล้ว
An anti-natalist subculture has flourished for years online. These days, it feels like it’s taking hold in the real world. This week, writer and internet historian Katherine Dee of Default Wisdomand Washington Post columnist and WoC Editor-at-Large Christine Emba join Shadi and Damir to make sense of this underground phenomenon-and its broader implications for how we live today. Do people reall...
Ep.129: The Charm of Anti-Competence | Wisdom of Crowds
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Why is Trump such a formidable candidate, despite everything? How can someone who lies so readily be seen as authentic? With the Republican presidential campaign heating up, Sam Adler-Bell-co-host of “Know Your Enemy” and one of the most fascinating leftist writers around today-returns to the podcast to argue that Trump has something special that Ron DeSantis doesn’t have and likely never will....
Ep. 127: Dare to Cross the Red Line | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 122ปีที่แล้ว
With the world feeling increasingly unstable, Damir and Shadi turn to foreign policy. Can the United States can back its bluster abroad, including in defense of Taiwan? All of this is happening as Donald Trump re-enters the national spotlight. The guys contrast the former president's manic approach to deterrence with the current and preceding administrations. Shadi is comforted the White House ...
ChatGPT and the Consciousness Trap | Samuel Kimbriel | PART 1 FULL | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 127ปีที่แล้ว
With artificial intelligence threatening to take over our imaginations, Shadi and Damir this week decided to talk through some of the philosophical quandaries with none other than political philosopher and Wisdom of Crowds contributing writer Samuel Kimbriel. The Crowd takes on ChatGPT, existential risk, "the simulation", navigating uncertainty and whether we can know what is real. After a rece...
Iraq and the Folly of Hindsight | Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic | FULL PART 1 | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 188ปีที่แล้ว
Twenty years after the American invasion of Iraq, Damir and Shadi go head-to-head to revisit the right (and wrong) lessons learned. What results is an episode of stark contrasts. Recalling now-regretful supporters of the war, Damir prods Shadi to reconcile his opposition to the war and his claim that Iraq is undoubtedly better off today than it was under Saddam. The two also have a spirited deb...
Is the GOP Irredeemable? | Osita Nwanevu | FULL PART 1 | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 225ปีที่แล้ว
With Ron DeSantis embracing an aggressively illiberal agenda of cultural reaction, how worried should we be? This week on the podcast, The New Republic's Osita Nwanevu-one of the most original leftist thinkers working today-joined us to debate the future of the Republican Party and the dangers of 2024. Very quickly, the conversation morphed into a spirited exchange on whether it's American inst...
Who Decides Our Desires | Luke Burgis | Wisdom of Crowds
มุมมอง 108ปีที่แล้ว
Author Luke Burgis joined Shadi and Damir for a conversation on the ubiquity and power of mimesis across various domains of life and how it plays a role in our current politics. First theorized by French philosopher Rene Girard, mimetic desire centers around how what we desire is a form of subconscious imitation of others and acts as a potent means of consequential decision-making. How do we na...
"I Felt Like I Had Lost Myself | PREVIEW Part 2 | Luke Burgis | Wisdom of Crowds
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"I Felt Like I Had Lost Myself | PREVIEW Part 2 | Luke Burgis | Wisdom of Crowds
Can Liberalism Be Decoupled From Democracy? | Wisdom Of Crowds
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Can Liberalism Be Decoupled From Democracy? | Wisdom Of Crowds
"The Problem of Democracy" | Live from the University of Pittsburgh | Wisdom of Crowds
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"The Problem of Democracy" | Live from the University of Pittsburgh | Wisdom of Crowds
Who Decides Our Desires? | Luke Burgis on Mimetic Theory | Wisdom of Crowds
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Who Decides Our Desires? | Luke Burgis on Mimetic Theory | Wisdom of Crowds
Ep. 104: Never Bet Against America | Wisdom of Crowds
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Ep. 104: Never Bet Against America | Wisdom of Crowds
Episode 68 (with Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili): Who Wrecked Afghanistan?
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Episode 68 (with Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili): Who Wrecked Afghanistan?
Episode 67: Afghanistan and America's Liberal Empire
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Episode 67: Afghanistan and America's Liberal Empire
Episode 66: Are Vaccine Mandates Racist?
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Episode 66: Are Vaccine Mandates Racist?
Episode 65: Michael Brendan Dougherty on Identity, Culture, and the False Promise of Liberation Made
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Episode 65: Michael Brendan Dougherty on Identity, Culture, and the False Promise of Liberation Made
Episode 64: Donald Rumsfeld Knew He Was Right
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Episode 64: Donald Rumsfeld Knew He Was Right
Episode 63: Will Europe Become a Geopolitical Backwater?
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Episode 63: Will Europe Become a Geopolitical Backwater?
Episode 62: Nice Woke Parents
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Episode 62: Nice Woke Parents
Why did America's elite give up on Christianity?
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Why did America's elite give up on Christianity?
Episode 61: Ross Douthat on Decadence, Wokeness, and UFOs
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Episode 61: Ross Douthat on Decadence, Wokeness, and UFOs
Why not live with decadence?
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Why not live with decadence?

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  • @Bigrhythm4
    @Bigrhythm4 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Damir is the least intelligent part of this podcast.

  • @birdmandaddy1234
    @birdmandaddy1234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I LOVE HOW THIS AGED. LIBS ARE MENTALLY UNSTABLE AND EMOTIONALLY BROKEN PEOPLE. I SWIM IN YOUR SNOWFLAKE TEARS YOU SISSY “BOYS” 😂😂😂

  • @pwarme
    @pwarme ปีที่แล้ว

    good discussion, but surprised Rawls' conception of the self as prior to the 'good' did not come up, which is an extension of Kant's conception of people as autonomous moral agents capable of and responsible for choosing their own ends. Being free to choose is, in one sense, an agony (much easier to be told how to live your life), but in another deeply liberating - we all bump up against the constraints of family, norms, traditions, education, etc. Rawls talked about "the fact of pluralism" (not only across traditions, but even within traditions), and while messy, it is deeply "true" - at our core, I think, no matter how deeply we are enmeshed in community, we are all individuals

  • @fastsavannah7684
    @fastsavannah7684 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ideological plates as in “dominant ideology”? Because those are quite in place - it’s the whole reason contradiction (different believes, attitudes, political, theoretical ideas, etc.) coexist. What most people refer to as “ideology” is just discourse. And discourses shift because dominant ideology needs tweaking (virtually every second) in order to reproduce itself so it can legitimise the contradictions of the system.

  • @bengtturvey5005
    @bengtturvey5005 ปีที่แล้ว

    "promosm"

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 ปีที่แล้ว

    Noam Chomsky - who knows a lot about AI and language - said the idea of "existential risk from AI" is a fantasy. IMHO, the "machine learning-social network" interaction that exists since quite a while ago is, indirectly, an existential risk because it turns people's brains into jello. --- Thomas Aquinas once posited God can't do three things: 1) do evil, 2) sin and 3) make a triangle with the sum of all internal angles different than 180 degrees (an Euclidean triangle). That's not a point of view held by all monotheistic religions. --- You guys need to get Searle on your podcast to talk about the world as a simmulation! It will be really entertaining!

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 ปีที่แล้ว

    Peter Singer is a serious philosopher. I don't think he would agree with trans-humanism - whatever that is. Let's not get side-blinded by Singer's view on expanding his moral argument to non-humans.

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 ปีที่แล้ว

    The difference between APIs and bueurocracy (I can't spell it ...) is with the first yoy have well defined behavior ...

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 ปีที่แล้ว

    If Borland had done GPT it would be better than God from version 1! The problem is the company doesn't exist anymore.

  • @jatrain
    @jatrain ปีที่แล้ว

    Bravo Jen for your restraint

  • @usmanarif2004
    @usmanarif2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow MashAllah

  • @crazypaulinquebec
    @crazypaulinquebec 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guys, Megan! Great stuff!! Why did it take 10 months to get your first like?

  • @joshua_ch
    @joshua_ch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    All of this is theoretical b.s. Unless you get violence under some control its impossible to get governance or justice etc in society. People talk as if all the people in American bureaucracy are idiots and all the afghan leaders from Karzai to Ghani are the worst people ever. That is just pure b.s. The fact is that if an irridentist group were to pick up the gun in the US and be able to just walk over to mexico where they could indoctrinate sufficient numbers to keep their war going, the US would also fail. I am sick of hearing about this so called swift justice of taliban, if one of their neighbors say iran now decides to fuel strife they can just get in there and tell the losing parties in these cases that the taliban are sunnis and hence favoring their guys so you need to form your militia and revolt. The taliban won't survive such an insurgency either unless they crush it to insignificance. This notion that everyone is reconcilable or amenable to power sharing is another myth. The taliban wanted complete power to impose a vision they deeply believed in and they imposed their MILITARY solution. The liberal idea is just not strong enough or at least people aren't willing to really put their lives on the line for it. It is as simple as that.

  • @MohamedMutal
    @MohamedMutal 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Israel is a racist apartheid state. A genocidal ethnic cleansing occupier. A UN created myth. Colonial project

  • @MohamedMutal
    @MohamedMutal 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    They can't say it. Neocon Neolib failure.

  • @alexjoy9693
    @alexjoy9693 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love these talks. Please do more

  • @lucylee2338
    @lucylee2338 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, I just stumbled upon this, so glad it’s not anywhere that I’d actually be looking for something interesting.!!!

  • @justomunoz7168
    @justomunoz7168 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tough on Lula a real bitch on Trump 😅 a true grifter

  • @jared_r
    @jared_r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glenn is very unfairly attacked every single day and its really sad b

  • @envy9086
    @envy9086 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glenn has become one of, if not my favorite political/cultural commentator and for what it’s worth I’d consider myself relatively right wing. Love all the interviews and content he puts out.

  • @markstephens2709
    @markstephens2709 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Controversial”. Yeah clicking on this is worse. Name calling Glenn means I’ll never engage you guys in any way after this unfortunate click.

    • @wisdomofcrowdspodcast7595
      @wisdomofcrowdspodcast7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saying Glenn is controversial is not name-calling. He does inspire controversy (just look at how people react to him on Twitter). Obviously we respect him enough to want him on the show are grateful he joined us.

    • @jared_r
      @jared_r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wisdomofcrowdspodcast7595 it’s 75% bots

  • @dylancasey7426
    @dylancasey7426 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m here to stay after interviewing Glenn!

  • @muhammadsaputra1004
    @muhammadsaputra1004 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @BasicLib
    @BasicLib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m making a point to like and comment on all the videos on this channel Doing my part to support the project.

  • @BasicLib
    @BasicLib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    We’re slowly building a community

  • @BasicLib
    @BasicLib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing work

  • @BasicLib
    @BasicLib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this As a Nigerian Living in the US (not Naturalized) I feel the exact same way

  • @BasicLib
    @BasicLib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been looking for more Bruno Macaes. Bravo

  • @joshua_ch
    @joshua_ch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really liked Damir's question about a sort of weakness in 'realism' and actual costs of restraint that might be far beyond immediate things. Her answer wasn't particularly convincing and sounded like a worrywart, that shouldn't be the policy lens for a super power that wants to stay a serous global power.

    • @BasicLib
      @BasicLib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly And to that point too often people assume the US is acting independent of external constraints As tho the US would prefer a pre 1945 world where the strong to what they can and the Weak endure what they must I’m sure a colonized Canada or conquers Mexico or genocide Cuba would be great for the US more territories more subjects But something fundamentally changed in the US conception of geopolitics after WW2. It embraced a theory of geopolitical action centered on common values rather than power That value was Liberal, Democratic Capitalism as oppressed to Soviet authoritarianism And the US embodied this narrative because it was in their best interest to not have to worry about a world in constant pain and struggle I think a large part of this had to do with the Invention of Nuclear Weapons. The realist don’t seem to think much on this or the fact that should the US not act, there’s genuine cause for concern that the world will spiral into the militarism they so fear and the Nuclear balance of power will be shattered. Humanity will no suffering the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Black Death.

  • @kirasussane1556
    @kirasussane1556 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh boy you weren't kidding when you say you two are misanthropic .😂😂

  • @dannyferguson9415
    @dannyferguson9415 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes that's right "they are all on the same spectrum of badness" Fact free fear.

  • @joshua_ch
    @joshua_ch 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am sorry NYT is not some hallowed institution. It is just another media organization that is selling a narrative to its subscribers. IMO it offers low quality journalism and is rather harmful especially because the readers think they are reading something objective and of high quality.

  • @BrianBoroughNY
    @BrianBoroughNY 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guy on the left (Damir?) sounds like Bob Odenkirk

    • @damir1666
      @damir1666 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think I’m OK with that. I’ve not watched Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, just Mr. Show. But I think I’m OK with that.

  • @yky0674
    @yky0674 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like Damir but Shadi compliments him well.

  • @hcwcars1
    @hcwcars1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The madness of crowds.

  • @mikeyjr1512
    @mikeyjr1512 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    First like too..

  • @mikeyjr1512
    @mikeyjr1512 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    one of the first six subscribers..I feel so elite