Best Jeremy Segal Podcasts (2024)

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May 6, 2024 - Dr. Guy Ziv | Jeremi Suri | Eugene Rumer 1:00:11

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The Gaza Impasses With Hamas Wanting a Permanent Ceasefire and Israel a Temporary One | A Possible Change in the US's Israel/Palestinian Policy as Grassroots and Student Protests Ended Support For South Africa's Apartheid Regime | Russia Announces Drills For the Use of Tactical Nukes Ahead of Putin's Inauguration Tomorrowbackgroundbriefing.org/dona…

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May 5, 2024 - John Nichols | Harold Meyerson | Brian Levin 1:03:15

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The House Speaker Uses an Antisemitic Trope Blaming George Soros as he Launches Hearings on Anti Semitism on Campuses | The Role of Right Wing, Christian Zionist and MAGA Provocateurs in Campus Violence | Models of Dialogue and Deescalation as Outside Opportunists Stoke Violence on Campusesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafac…

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EP 237 Simon DeDeo on the Odds of Major Civil Violence 1:32:49

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Jim talks with Simon DeDeo about their wager concerning the likelihood of civil violence and mass killings in America in the next decade. They discuss the terms of the wager, the appropriate orders of magnitude, Alex Garland's Civil War, the American readiness to use violence, honor cultures, the movement from violence to political violence, indust…

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May 2, 2024 - Paul Pillar | David Pozen | Cat Packer 1:01:18

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On the Brink of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Are Deadlocked | The DEA's Decriminalization of Marijuana as Too Little Too Late | Could a Change in DEA Policy Revive California's Troubled Marijuana Industry?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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May 1, 2024 - Ananya Roy | Aziz Rana 58:04

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A Pro-Israel Mob Invades the UCLA Campus to Beat up Pro-Palestinian Students While the Police Look On | Assessing the Flaws and Exploring the Fixes to a Constitution That is Failing Americans As Fascism Threatens Our DemocracyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan GreenBy Ian Masters

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April 30, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Timothy Ryback 58:55

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As Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model For Deescalation | The Disturbingly Accurate Analogies Between Hitler's Rise to Power and Trump's Threat to Democracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters

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April 29, 2024 - Raz Segal | Dennis Aftergut | Sumit Ganguly 1:02:29

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The Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's Indiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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April 28, 2024 - Lara Friedman | Leah Litman | Allan Lichtman 1:00:57

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The House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Right Since 1984backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.co…

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April 25, 2024 - Aziz Huq | Aynne Kokas | David Austin Walsh 59:37

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More Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters

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April 24, 2024 - George Beebe | Dr. Rob Davidson | Ari Berman 1:00:08

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Supreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than CompeteHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan GreenBy Ian Masters

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EP 236 Gregg Henriques on Free Will vs Determinism 36:32

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Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his take on the free will versus determinism debate. They discuss the importance of definitions, the enlightenment gap, the complexity lens, why "will" is confusing & choice is a better referent, free choice vs determinism, levels of analysis, description vs explanation, freedom as description, the tree of knowl…

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April 23, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Sidney Blumenthal | Garrett Epps 1:01:45

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Trump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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April 22, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Anne Nelson | Natalie Foster 59:39

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Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next EconomyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green…

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April 21, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Nataliya Gumenyuk | Steven Simon 1:04:02

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Meeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive | How Ukraine Will Survive and Adjust to Permanent War | The Deadly War in Gaza and Israel's Tenuous Standoff With Iran as Both Israel and Palestine Appear to be Leaderless and Directionlessbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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April 18, 2024 - Illia Ponomarenko | Scott Horton | Steven Greenhouse 1:02:01

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A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the Southbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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April 17, 2024 - Rebecca Roiphe | Anders Åslund | Chuck Marr 59:11

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The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionairesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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EP 235 Robin Hanson on Beware Cultural Drift

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Jim talks with Robin Hanson about the ideas in his essay "Beware Cultural Drift: Thoughts on modernity's monoculture mistake." They discuss drift in fundamental cultural values, the current unprecedented rate of change, boutique multiculturalism, weak selection pressures, drift without selection, understanding small cultures, agency risk, comparing…

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April 16, 2024 - Assal Rad | Mansour Farhang | Claire Finkelstein 56:51

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A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/i…

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April 15, 2024 - Adam Weinstein | Jennifer Taub | Joshua Ferrer 1:00:19

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Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats Fr…

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April 14, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | Lisa Graves | Paul Glastris 1:03:32

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Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievementbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters

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April 11, 2024 - Dr. Nancy Okail | Ellis Krauss | Stephen Lemons 1:00:12

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Israel's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the 1864 Abortion Ban backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitte…

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April 10, 2024 - Jessica Mason Pieklo | Caroline Fredrickson | James Risen 1:00:31

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The Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracyback…

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EP 234 Richard Bartlett on an Experiment in Co-Living 1:03:09

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Jim talks with Richard Bartlett about the ideas in his essay "What we learned from a 3-month co-living experiment." They discuss Jim's visit to a co-living house, community & its recent decline, starting small & iterating, the co-living experiment in Andalusia, pre-registration, co-living plus events, finding the right place, the importance of land…

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April 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | Miles Taylor | Michael Graetz 1:00:22

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Did Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Further backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmasters…

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April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey 59:00

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April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters

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April 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert Hockett 59:46

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Iran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With Chinabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com…

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EP 233 Robert Conan Ryan on Seven Ethical Perspectives

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Jim talks with Robert Conan Ryan about seven ethical perspectives and why everyone should know them. They discuss why understanding ethical stances is valuable, a horseshoe spectrum, pragmatism, virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontology, elitist power, deification, social justice, stacking up ethical stances, Aristotle's golden mean, sociopaths i…

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April 4, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal | Tommy Miles 1:01:38

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Trump's Piety in Contrast to the Porn he Faces and the Cruelty and Hatred he Displays | The 100 Right Wing Tax-Exempt Organizations With Over $2 Billion to Elect Trump | AFRICOM Loses Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger to the Russiansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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EP 232 Matthew David Segall on Process Philosophy and the Origin of Life 1:26:50

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Jim talks with Matthew David Segall about the ideas in his and Bruce Damer's new essay, "The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis." They discuss the "philosophy as footnotes to Plato" idea, the hot springs origin of life hypothesis, closing the gap between chemistry & life, Whitehead's idea of…

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April 3, 2024 - Harry Litman | John Stoehr | Jeet Heer 1:00:26

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Jack Smith's Shot Across the Bow at the Trump-Friendly Judge on the Classified Documents Case | The Florida Supreme Court's 6 Week Abortion Ban and a Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Abortion Access in the Florida State Constitution | "Why Silicon Valley Reactionaries Love RFK Jr."Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Gr…

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April 2, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Thanassis Cambanis | Ahmet Yayla 59:32

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Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebo…

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April 1, 2024 - Michael Weiss | Marci Shore | Steven Hahn 1:00:39

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New evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in American Historybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.co…

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March 31, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Peter Pomerantsev | Martin Sixsmith 1:03:01

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The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despotbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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EP 231 Vance Crowe Interviews Jim Rutt on AI Risk 1:04:44

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Vance Crowe interviews Jim about how he maps the problem-space of current and future AI risk. They discuss the beginnings of AI, the era of broad AI, artificial general intelligence, the Wozniak test, artificial superintelligence, the paperclip maximizer problem, the timeline of AGI, FOOM, limitations of current governance structure, bad uses of na…

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March 27, 2024 - Jacob Silverman | Fred Turner | Brian Concannon 1:01:08

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Plutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haitibackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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March 26, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Michele Goodwin | Jay Ritter 56:04

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Is Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability For the United States? | Today's Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court on a Nationwide Ban of a Medication Abortion Drug | After Today's Trading, Trump's Essentially Worthless Company is Suddenly Worth $15 Billion?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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