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The Portal is an exploration into discovery, including conversations with thought leaders. Host Eric Weinstein, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, brings his unique expertise and diverse roster of guests for a wide range of discussions, including science, culture, business, and capitalism. The show will feature people whose lives demonstrate that portals into what we would normally consider impossible, are indeed possible. Guests include presidential candidate Andrew Yang, NY Times bestsell ...
Political commentator Jamie Weinstein sits down with the most powerful names in politics, business and media to get a better understanding of how they got to where they are, and how they see the world. You'll learn about their biographies, their core beliefs and what they think about what is going on in the world today.
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In this solo episode, Eric shares three related audio essays. In the first essay, Eric admits that he has spent the last four years asserting that Donald Trump represented an Existential Risk, but without the usual contempt for his supporters. Here, Eric finally responds to the frequent requests for clarification of his unusual position, by beginni…
Ben Smith may write the one column that politicos of all ideological stripes can't wait to read every week. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the media columnist for The New York Times discusses how the Biden administration will be different in treating the media than the Trump administration, whether Trump's exit will be bad for b…
For over two decades, Rich Lowry has edited arguably the most important magazine in modern American conservatism. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the longtime editor of National Review opens up about his thoughts on Donald Trump's presidential tenure, what happens to the GOP after Trump, whether he regrets the magazine's "Against…
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Episode 103: Matt Lewis Interviews Jamie Weinstein
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Jamie Weinstein should be familiar to The Jamie Weinstein Show listeners because, well, he is the host of the show. In this very special episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the tables are turned on Jamie as Matt Lewis joins the show to ask Jamie many of the questions Jamie often asks guests.
Many consider Victor Davis Hanson the top intellectual defender of President Donald J. Trump. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein, with one week before the 2020 presidential election, Professor Hanson makes his case for Trump's re-election against strident pushback.
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41: Douglas Murray - Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization
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If you don't know Douglas Murray, in the estimation of the The Portal, this may well be the most important voice you will hear from the United Kingdom for some time. In the tradition of De Tocqueville and Alistair Cook's famous "Letter from America," Douglas Murray is America's true friend. He is not the man who tells you that you look great and la…
Retired Gen. H.R. McMaster is not only a decorated soldier but a well-respected historian. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the former National Security Adviser to President Trump opens up about what it is like working for Trump, his new book "Battlegrounds," his influences and much more.…
Michael Medved speaks his mind, consequences be damned. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the long-time conservative radio host and author opens up about why he's supporting Biden for president, what he makes of the Trump administration, why he left (or was forced out of) Salem Radio, his influences and much more.…
Bill Ayers is back. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein, the founder of The Weather Underground opens up about the current protest movement in the U.S., his thoughts on Defund the Police, his son becoming the DA of San Francisco, the 2020 election and much more.
Brian Stelter returns. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the chief media correspondent for CNN and author of the new book "Hoax" discusses his new book, Trump's effect on the media, Fox News and how it is different from other cable news networks, and much more.
If you are a listener of this podcast, John Bolton needs no introduction. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump discusses his new book "The Room Where It Happened," the fallout from his criticism of President Trump, his influences and much more.…
Tim Miller is a longtime Republican operative turned leader of the Never Trump movement. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the former top level communications aide to both the Jon Huntsman for President and Jeb Bush for President campaigns opens up about how his views have evolved, what has surprised him about the Trump administrat…
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40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?
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If you have ever wondered whether you were crazy when everyone else claims to see things differently than you do, this is the episode for you. Book clubs are everywhere and we are always asked for book recommendations. But what about the great Essays, Interviews, Conversations, Aphorisms, Shaggy Dog Stories, Lyrics, Courtroom Testimonies, Poems, Mo…
One of the pillars of the American Dream has been that of seeing your children go to college. And, for the many families that can't afford the cost of soaring university tuitions, a new controversial institution has arisen to address the problem. That institution is Sugar Baby University, a tuition assistance campaign that attempts to allow attract…
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38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A
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With this release, we try something a little different on The Portal. We begin an initiative to search for ways to feature members of the vibrant Portal sub-communities as part of the podcast itself, by requesting that listeners send in their questions around the prompt: “Mass media, markets, and human malware.” The questions that came in were inte…
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37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke
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New Yorker writer and book author Andrew Marantz and Eric became friends shortly before the 2016 election when Andrew set off to write the first profile of Eric and Geometric Unity, his theory of Physics. Coming from similar ethnic and politically progressive backgrounds they found plenty of common cause. With the rise of Trump, they then found the…
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36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
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Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down with Stephon over a good deal of wine to discuss particles, politics, blackness and STEM, and other matters as they look back on the last decade of t…
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35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus
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Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Corona virus and was ridiculed for his efforts by many in the world of institutional sense-making. That is before people realized he was not wrong, but simply early. …
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34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z
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This is the first episode of The Portal which was 100% recorded at home, during quarantine, under social isolation. The guest is none other than my own son Zev Weinstein and the recording was timed to straddle his midnight transition from being 14 into being 15 years old. Zev is currently a 9th grader who occasionally posts to his YouTube Channel G…
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33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future
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Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital is a leading mind in the current wave of venture capitalists making waves. While aware of each other for some time, in this episode Josh sits down with Eric for their first meeting. Together the two explore various topics from comparing notes on their encounters with Jim Watson of DNA fame, to talking about what society ge…
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32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares
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It is said that there is not one American dream but many, and few have lived more than JD Vance. Growing up in Appalachia on the border between poverty and the lower working class, JD knew economic fear first hand as well as the cultural devastation of the region's post-coal era. Working his way up, he joined the elite US Marine Corps and entered Y…
Ben Askren is a champion several times over. In the latest episode of "The Jamie Weinstein," the retired combat sports superstar opens up about his political views, the Coronavirus pandemic, what it takes to be a champion athlete, his career and much, much more.
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31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes
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Ryan Holiday is a master manipulator with a cool head, and keen eye for social observation and a big heart. Eric sits down with the Author of "Conspiracy" and tries to get a self-confessed former manipulator and one of the top emerging millennial social analysts to tell us how he unweaves society's artifices to see what is really driving our curren…
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30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
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Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success." Over champagne flutes filled with bubbly, the two discussed the various ways that the success and excesses of American Capitalism…
Matt Lewis is back. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the first-ever to be recorded remotely, the Daily Beast columnist and CNN columnist talks all things Coronavirus.
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29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not
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Former National Security analyst turned author Jamie Metzel has written a book called Hacking Darwin. The book attempts to use storytelling to explore where we are as the new era of rewriting our cells and ourselves gets into full swing. Here he sits down with Eric to explore the negatives and positives of our seemingly ineluctable future of God-li…
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A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
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28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew
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Eric Lewis is an open portal, a wonderful friend and one of the most important pianists in the world by our measure. As such, we will not bother with further notes for this episode. If you love the quest of the show as well as authentic soulful music, this is your guy. We simply sat down at a famous Yamaha grand piano at The Village recording studi…
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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses
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In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet. Daniel is seen as a leader of the growing Game B subcultu…
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26: James O’Keefe - What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century
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James O'Keefe is a dangerous man. He records people without their knowledge and publishes the results using the full power of our technological toolkit. He is well versed in the details of the law as to what can and cannot be legally recorded and/or published without the consent or even awareness of his targets. He is willing to risk prison to capt…
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25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein
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Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein, Eric recorded a solo episode that he never released in hopes that its subject matter would be overtaken by investigative journalism. As this has not happened, it is being released with some trepidation in March of 2020 due to the issue of state involvement with Jeffr…
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24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants
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In a world which is often slow-moving and even stagnant, there are always sectors and individuals who buck the trends. In this episode of The Portal, Eric sits down with his favorite surfing hero Kai Lenny who is pioneering a new approach to big wave surfing. By availing himself of the latest technology and dedicating his life to innovation and dis…
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23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits
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Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to detach the capacity for inquiry and reason from the fog of feelings and societal taboos that often keep us from delving deeper into the questions that animate our lives.…
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22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness
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Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world's most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature. The academic and medical literature in health and medicine is a disaster. Studies are performed and reported in non-s…
For two decades, Jonah Goldberg has been one of America's premiere conservative polemicists. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the long-time conservative commentator and founder of the new publication The Dispatch opens up about being a Trump-skeptical conservative in the Age of Trump, why he left the National Review, the state of …
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21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart
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Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free speech movement. Jim Morrison, Mae West, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin have all been arrested for exciting the public in ways that authorities have found threatening. Recently, however, the erotic and comedic arts have undergone more cryptic attacks vi…
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20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy
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Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back to ask about the current status of his thinking on what would have been called “Unified Fiel…
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19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC
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All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan. There was however, a remarkable story of science at its both best and worst that had not been told in years. After an initial tussle, we dusted off the cobwebs and decided to reconstruct it raw and…
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18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020
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This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or "DISC". From "Terms of Service" changes, to selective enforcement of rules, peer review, "Strategic Silence", 'authoritative sources o…
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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 through a bottle of Red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist Anna Khachiyan (co-host of the explosive and popular Red Scare podcast) to find out what is brewing on the anti-woke Left among the intellectual daugh…
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16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized
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In this episode, Eric sits down with Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy would choose a commuter school to launch a stealth attack on the self-satisfied economic establishment, various forms of existential risk, tech/social stagnation and more. On first glance, Tyler Cowen is an unlikely candidate for America's most infl…
If you're a listener of political podcasts, I'm guessing Sen. Ted Cruz needs no introduction. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the Texas senator discuses his relationship with Donald Trump, impeachment, foreign policy, the ideological fight within conservatism, his influences and so much more.…
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15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself.
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Garrett Lisi, the so called "Surf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)", is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd investments, he has avoided holding meaningful employment for his entire adult life. Instead, he lives in Maui and travels the world chasing the perfect …
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14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians
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What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground. In this episode of the Portal, Eric begins tracking down the leaders of this hidden movement; one that is smuggling higher level science into transcendent art forms. Eric had to coax one the movement’s foremost members, London Tsai, to come out of ob…
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13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics
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In this cordially combative episode, Eric sits down with Russian chess legend, multiple-year champion and (inarguably) one of the greatest players of all time, Garry Kasparov. The two discuss transcending AI-induced demotivation, AI brilliancy (and lack thereof), the perilous time for global democracy in Russia, America and globally and Garry's pen…
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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine
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In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox economics. Taking note of the new development of blockchain in 2010, Eric wrote an essay called “Go Virtual Young Man”. A few years later, a Thiel Fellow named Vitalik created a virtual machine with an idiosyncratic smart contract syste…
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11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends
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On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, Sam Harris. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to high…
Jim Antle knows the Right as well as anybody. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, the editor of The American Conservative opens up about what he sees as the pros and cons of the Trump presidency, how Trump came to win the 2016 Republican primary, Trump's scandals, the fall of the Weekly Standard and much more.…
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10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree
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Eric sits down with Julie Lindahl, author of "The Pendulum". What happens when an ethnically German girl growing up in Brazil gets curious to finally make sense of her family history to stop the cycle of dysfunction? Julie Lindahl’s new book "The Pendulum" shows us what it can take to find a portal out of inter-generational trauma. Eric welcomes hi…
