CSPI Podcast

Social Sciences #47

Discussions with CSPI scholars and leading thinkers in science, technology, and politics.

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Do We Need a More Assertive Congress?
Mar 13, 2025 – 01:01:00
Answering the Anti-Vaxxers | Stephen Goldstein & Richard Hanania
Dec 17, 2024 – 58:30
How the Race Taboo Swallowed Our Political Culture | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania
Jul 15, 2024 – 01:17:08
Sorting Through 498,000 Clinical Trials
Jun 17, 2024 – 01:08:04
Nature, Nurture, and Overcoming Hardship | Rob Henderson and Richard Hanania on "Troubled"
May 6, 2024 – 01:02:59
Debt Commission to the Rescue? | Romina Boccia & Richard Hanania
Apr 1, 2024 – 56:39
The Threat of AI Regulation with Brian Chau
Mar 18, 2024 – 01:12:49
Ideology, Trade, and War | Andrew Roberts & Richard Hanania on Napoleon
Jan 22, 2024 – 47:10
Heading Towards the Fiscal Cliff | Brian Riedl & Richard Hanania
Nov 20, 2023 – 54:04
No Need to Argue. Just Build | Niklas Anzinger & Richard Hanania
Oct 30, 2023 – 57:46
Propaganda and Power | Chris Rufo & Richard Hanania
Jul 24, 2023 – 01:20:39
AI Alignment as a Solvable Problem | Leopold Aschenbrenner & Richard Hanania
May 15, 2023 – 01:02:08
Understanding Right and Left | Bryan Caplan & Richard Hanania
May 1, 2023 – 01:32:49
Marc Andreessen On Venture Capital, Science, Tech, Progress, and More (Rerelease)
Mar 27, 2023 – 01:56:30
Waiting for the Betterness Explosion | Robin Hanson & Richard Hanania
Mar 13, 2023 – 01:42:06
Administrative Procedure and the Common Good | Nicholas Bagley & Richard Hanania
Feb 27, 2023 – 01:04:26
Right-Wing Populism and Moral Corrosion | Tim Miller & Richard Hanania
Feb 13, 2023 – 01:18:34
Why the Singularity Might Never Come | Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, and Richard Hanania
Jan 30, 2023 – 01:09:59
Why is the West Special? | Joe Henrich & Richard Hanania
Jan 16, 2023 – 54:00
Understanding the Flows of History | Garett Jones & Richard Hanania
Jan 2, 2023 – 01:15:23
Getting at True Heritability | Alexander Young & Richard Hanania
Dec 19, 2022 – 01:02:31
The Right-Wing Echo Chamber | Aaron Sibarium & Richard Hanania
Dec 5, 2022 – 01:20:25
Blame Elites...or the Masses? | Rob Henderson, Zach Goldberg, & Richard Hanania
Nov 7, 2022 – 01:32:25
Identity and Elite Polarization | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania
Oct 24, 2022 – 01:16:14
Operation Warp Speed and the Triumph of Governance | Alex Tabarrok & Richard Hanania
Oct 10, 2022 – 01:34:45
Thinking about "Social Justice" Like an Economist | Bryan Caplan & Richard Hanania
Sep 26, 2022 – 01:16:55
"How Ambitious Are You?" | Tyler Cowen & Richard Hanania
Sep 12, 2022 – 01:18:15
Diversity, Debate, Decline | Amy Wax & Richard Hanania
Aug 29, 2022 – 01:29:41
Mana from Heaven | Stephen Grugett, James Grugett, & Richard Hanania
Aug 15, 2022 – 33:57
Policy Reform for Progress | Andrew Kenneson, Maxwell Tabarrok, Brent Skorup & Richard Hanania
Aug 1, 2022 – 01:32:52
Lessons from the Frontlines of the University Wars | Richard Lowery & Richard Hanania
Jul 18, 2022 – 01:05:43
The American Race Regime | David Bernstein & Richard Hanania
Jul 4, 2022 – 01:39:49
Does Big Data Know Best? | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz & Richard Hanania
Jun 20, 2022 – 01:43:36
How LGBT Are the Kids? | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania
Jun 6, 2022 – 01:25:41
Social Desirability as the Enemy of Truth | Bryan Caplan & Richard Hanania
May 23, 2022 – 01:38:19
The Future of Tech (Bonus Episode) | Eron Wolf & Richard Hanania
May 18, 2022 – 45:35
Baby Brainwaves and Broken Science | Jordan Lasker & Richard Hanania
May 9, 2022 – 01:08:06
The Le Pen Curse | Philippe Lemoine & Richard Hanania
Apr 25, 2022 – 01:41:04
Towards an Anti-Woke Political Program | Gail Heriot & Richard Hanania
Apr 11, 2022 – 01:20:00
Is the West to Blame for Ukraine? | Noah Carl & Richard Hanania
Mar 28, 2022 – 57:03
"The Pressure to Conform is Enormous": Steve Hsu on Affirmative Action, Assimilation, and IQ Outliers | Steve Hsu & Richard Hanania
Mar 14, 2022 – 01:54:12
Vision, Beauty, and Creative Destruction in Silicon Valley | Jimmy Soni & Richard Hanania
Feb 28, 2022 – 01:17:09
The Future of Humanity Is IVF Babies and Chinese Domination | Steve Hsu & Richard Hanania
Feb 14, 2022 – 01:38:13
Practical Progress in DC | Alec Stapp & Richard Hanania
Jan 31, 2022 – 01:09:06
Darwin and Marx: Friends or Foes? | Freddie deBoer & Richard Hanania
Jan 17, 2022 – 01:08:19
Underwhelmed by Academia (Year in Review) | Jonah Davids & Richard Hanania
Jan 3, 2022 – 01:16:28
Wokeness and Civil Rights Law | Charles Fain Lehman, Gabriel Rossman & Richard Hanania
Dec 20, 2021 – 01:12:07
Population Structure: What Epidemiology Has Gotten Wrong | Philippe Lemoine & Richard Hanania
Dec 6, 2021 – 01:31:03
Is DEI Conquering Science? | Leif Rasmussen & Richard Hanania
Nov 22, 2021 – 01:10:08
The Queen of the Human Sciences | Robert Plomin & Richard Hanania
Nov 8, 2021 – 01:28:38

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good stuff

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Astachelek

Excellent

Incisive minds on a variety of topics; heterodox thought with rigor. With the IDW having grown stale and needing to maintain their invites to the dinner party circuit, Richard is the antidote to that.
Skateedge

Learning something from this show

I don’t know much about statistics and social science but this is helping me divide what I read into different slices. I like the guests who haven’t finished their books, so they are not saying the same thing in 20 other podcasts.