EV - 237 Defining "religion" with Chris Kavanagh

April 21, 2022 / The Void

My returning guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), a cultural anthropologist and co-host of the Decoding the Gurus pod. We discuss competing accounts of how to define "religion" and their implications for church and state conflicts.

Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

Chris's article about defining religion: https://aeon.co/essays/can-religion-be-based-on-ritual-practice-without-belief

Convocation: Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w

Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject:

https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon!

Next week: Tracking right wing cultural collapse narratives with Martin Rooke

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EV - 236 Reengaging LGBTQ nonbelievers with Callie Wright

April 06, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Callie Wright (@calliegetsit). We discuss the recent history of movement secularism and why it's struggling with a reputation issue amongst LGBTQ communities.

Callie's podcast: http://www.queersplaining.com/

Convocation: Julian Ayala

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Recent appearances: I was on What's Left of Philosophy discussing my new paper on luck. It was the best chat I've had on the subject so far: https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: I'm going to be speaking at AAcon easter weekend, come hang out!

Next week: Taking the week off for American Atheist Convention, come hang out!

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EV - 234 Navigating Gender Criticism with Corrina Cohn

March 24, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Corinna Cohn (@heterodorx), a gender critical activist, self identifying transsexual and cohost of the Heterodorx podcast. We discuss her views on gender and policies regarding bathrooms, sports, and gender affirming care.

Heterdorx pod: https://www.heterodorx.com/

Convocation: George Takei

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Recent Appearances: I was on the Ultraviolet podcast talking about moral luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ31sIBgWKE

Next week: A Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit with Tom and Cecil

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EV - 233 Nonbeliever Community Organizing with Hemant Mehta

March 09, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta), co-host of the Friendly Atheist and host of the friendly atheist youtube channel. Hemant is also a contributor at OnlySky, a news and commentary website aimed at nonbelievers, as well as the author of several books including the Young Atheist’s Survival Guide and I Sold My Soul on eBay. We discuss nonbeliever communities, image problems with movement atheism, and what we should be focused on these days.

Hemant's list of links: https://linktr.ee/HemantMehta

Convocation: Stephen Charnock

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Mess We're In, where I accused them of promoting a moral panic and sharing laundered antisemitic conspiracism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_VfCKtrZPQ

Next week: Navigating Gender Critical Communities with Corinna Cohn

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EV - 232 Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves with Jeff Sebo

March 02, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo), director of the NYU animal studies MA program and author of Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves. We discuss his new book, what sort of progress non-human animal ethics is making and what it means for the rolling crises of COVID and climate change.

Jeff's website: https://jeffsebo.net/

Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/saving-animals-saving-ourselves-9780190861018?cc=us&lang=en&

Convocation: Jeff Sebo

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Mess We're In, where I accused them of promoting a moral panic and sharing laundered antisemitic conspiracism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_VfCKtrZPQ

Next week: Non-believer community organizing with Hemant Mehta

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EV - 231 Questioning The Placebo Effect with Mike Hall

February 23, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Mike Hall (@mikehall314), co-host of Skeptics with a K and one of the directors of the UK skeptic magazine. We discuss common misconceptions about the placebo effect, the possibility that it's just an artifact of flawed science, and the implications for things like alternative medicine.

Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/category/podcast/skeptics-with-a-k/

Convocation: Bruce Lipton

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Mess We're In, where I accused them of promoting a moral panic and sharing laundered antisemitic conspiracism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_VfCKtrZPQ

Next week: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves with Jeff Sebo

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EV - 229 Tracking in Schools with TracingWoodgrains

February 11, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) editorial assistant for the podcast blocked and reported and an online writer who focuses on education and cultural issues.

Tracking article: https://web.archive.org/web/20200102171922/http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/04/acc-entry-does-the-education-system-adequately-serve-advanced-students/

Convocation: Kristen Olson

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: Solidarity in Conflict with Rochelle DuFord

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EV - 228 Philosophers on Consciousness with Jack Symes

February 06, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Jack Symes (@_JackSymes), cohost of the Panpsycast podcast and editor of the new book in the talking about philosophy series, entitled Philosophers on Consciousness. We discuss his new book and the competing views on consciousness presented in the book.

Philosophers on Consciousness: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Consciousness-Talking-about-Philosophy/dp/1350190411/ref=asc_df_1350190411/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=532655309268&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9709633510350875215&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003469&hvtargid=pla-1463149919210&psc=1

Panpsycast: https://thepanpsycast.com/

Convocation: Terence McKenna

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: Tracking in Schools with TracingWoodgrains

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EV - 227 Techno-epistemic crisis with Philipp Markolin

January 27, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin), a former data analyst at ETH who writes on the role of technology in our epistemic crisis. We discuss why all issues inevitably get co-opted by commenters and what might short circuit the process.

Algorithmic curation article: https://protagonist-science.medium.com/85e9cde79189

Convocation: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2020/10/monster-island-free-speech-experiment/

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: Philosophers on Consciousness with Jack Symes

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EV - 226 Sowell's History of Slavery with Charles Boyd

January 21, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Charles Boyd (@MinorityOfOne75), a historian, writer, and activist who teaches at Georgia state university and host of the Minority of One podcast. We discuss the chapter from Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals about the history of slavery.

The real history of slavery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrfjUzYvPo

Convocation: Sowell

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: Technoepistemic crisis with Philipp Markolin

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EV - 225 Reconsidering Reparations with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

January 14, 2022 / The Void

My guest this week is Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor at Georgetown university pan african community action. We discuss his new book Reconsidering Reparations and the scale of change needed to bring about global justice.

Reconsidering Reparations: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reconsidering-reparations-9780197508893?cc=us&lang=en&

Convocation: Cedric Robinson

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: Sowell's History of Slavery with Charles Boyd

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EV - 224 Teaching During a Moral Panic with Heather Redmond Leise

December 31, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Heather Redmond Leise, my civics teacher from Atlee High School. We discuss her 2+ decades teaching high school and her experiences with the rise of the CRT moral panic in Virginia.

Convocation: Langston Hughes

Aaron's non-believer stereotype workshop: https://evergreen.humanitru.com/web/campaigns/the-innerwork-center~winter-spring-2022?attend=id%3A4465&sharer_id=3509&medium=&notes=Listing+Card&remote_id=RSgy

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: Reconsidering Reparations with @OlufemiOTaiwo

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EV - 222 American Shade with Brittany Talissa King

December 17, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Brittany Talissa King (@KingTalissa), a freelance writer, journalist, and writing instructor at Indiana University host of American Shade. We discuss black heterodoxy in politics and the work she's doing to provide a genuine perspective at American Shade.

Convocation: Brittany Talissa King

American Shade: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVlAwsrGCKLA-3pUudSRjQ

"Free Black Thought" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/dubois-washington-black-lives-matter

"I Am Not Gonna Let You Finish, Kanye." https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-kanye-west-im-not-gonna-let-you-finish

"Our Skin Problem: America's Toxic Bias of Color." https://medium.com/@brtking.7/our-skin-problem-americas-toxic-bias-of-color-f4c6b432ef4a

"Racism-19, our other pandemic." http://www.therepublic.com/2020/06/05/racism19_our_other_pandemic/

"Banning Books Bans Freedom of Speech: Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ Isn’t Porn. It’s About Pain." https://zora.medium.com/banning-books-bans-freedom-of-speech-toni-morrisons-the-bluest-eye-isn-t-porn-it-s-about-pain-e124f69946f0?sk=906ded10600db7314eab9fcf86ec1cee

"Why ‘The Activist’ Should Not Shock You" https://zora.medium.com/why-the-activist-should-not-shock-you-f2dea3a6ca41?sk=f46e0e545a0c5fec0b82ac2372bafacf

"I Am Not Your #Hashtag: Why I Am Critical About White Allyship." https://medium.com/@brtking.7/iamnotyouhashtag-why-i-am-critical-of-white-allyship-b39e5d676f72

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: I was on Beyond Atheism talking about moral realism for non-believers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dZHGosvPM

Next week: CRT in Virginia schools with Heather Redmon Leise

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EV - 219 Online Shaming with Krista Thomason

November 26, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Krista Thomason (@kkthomason), an associate professor of philosophy at Swarthmore college and Philip Quinn fellow at national humanities center, author of Naked: The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life and a chapter on online shaming in the Oxford handbook of Digital Ethics. We discuss the potential harms of online shaming and how to criticize while not contributing to the problem.

Krista's chapter: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198857815.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198857815-e-8

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: I was on a panel discussing Chapelle's recent special and why I believe it was an objectively transphobic set, whether or not it was funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msCXuy7S75M

Next week: Resisting Moral Panics with Rod Graham

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EV - 216 Freedom with Toby Buckle

November 05, 2021 / The Void

My returning guest this week is Toby Buckle, host of the Political Philosophy Podcast (@PolPhilPod) and Editor of the New Book What is Freedom? We discuss the concept of freedom and America's troubled relationship with that concept.

What is Freedom?: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-is-freedom-9780197572221?cc=us&lang=en&

Convocation: Goethe

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Next week: Neo-Rationalism with George Hemington

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EV - 215 Detransition Research with Jesse Singal

October 25, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Jesse Singal (@jessesingal), cohost of the Blocked and Reported podcast and a contributor New York mag and a range of other places, primarily Substack. We compare two recently published articles on detransition, Turban (2021) and Littman (2021).

Article citing Turban (2021): https://fenwayhealth.org/new-study-shows-discrimination-stigma-and-family-pressure-drive-detransition-among-transgender-people/

Turban (2021): https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0437

Criticism of Turban: https://medium.com/@JLCederblom/the-lukewarm-perjury-of-jack-turban-a85903109051

USTS 2015 Transgender survey: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports?fbclid=IwAR2uVJUhljZ1SQcVaLNAHCjtHqzuz-VrEXUzQiq139hB39i2oJk-YaIDWh0#USTS

Turban (2020): https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/01/21/peds.2019-1725/tab-e-letters?versioned=true

Jesse's thread announcing Littman: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1450504856666509317?s=20

Littman (2021): https://t.co/F9eKSCcbUj?amp=1

Twitter thread from Littman (2021) participant: https://twitter.com/reclaimingtrans/status/1450528282038898692

Twitter thread showing recruiting info for Littman (2021): https://twitter.com/ImplausibleGrrl/status/1261328400360275970

DysphoricWomen subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DysphoricWomen/

Criticism of Littman recruitment strategies during the survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/5ighgz/recruitment_call_individuals_who_received/

Call for participants on Cari Stella's blog: https://guideonragingstars.tumblr.com/post/159584327846/hi-id-like-to-announce-recruitment-for-a-new

Complete list of Littman (2021) questions: https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/Ns7EzZRCESHMqtDttHThtc9hM+D2cewT84ojyqZBG5Q/

Correction to Littman (2018): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214157

Littman's defense of her methods: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01631-z

Convocation: George Takei

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Next week: Freedom with Toby Buckle

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EV - 214 Liberal Currents with Adam Gurri

October 21, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Adam Gurri, founder and editor in chief of liberal currents. We discuss why we still identify as liberals, his recent article on cancel culture narratives, and whether those narratives are an unavoidable part of liberal society.

The Case Not Made: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-case-not-made-a-response-to-anne-applebaums-the-new-puritans/

Convocation: Zizek

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Next week: Gender Affirming Treatment for Trans Youth with Jesse Singal

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EV - 213 Warspeak with Michael Grenke

October 15, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Dr. Michael Grenke, a tutor at St John’s College and author of the introduction to the recently released Warspeak: Nietzsche’s victory over nihilism. We discuss Nietzsche's worldview, the risks and insights in that view, and how we wrestle with nihilism and meaning in the modern world.

Warspeak: https://www.amazon.com/Warspeak-Nietzsches-Victory-over-Nihilism/dp/1895131499

Convocation: Nietzsche

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Next week: Liberal Currents with Adam Gurri

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EV - 212 The Conspiracy Handbook with John Cook

October 07, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is John Cook (@johnfocook), a research fellow at Monash Climate Change Committee Research Hub, author of the book Cranky Uncle Vs. Climate Change and coauthor of The conspiracy Handbook. We discuss the common features of conspiracies and the challenges of applying this analysis in the modern world.

Conspiracy handbook: https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ConspiracyTheoryHandbook.pdf

Convocation: Christopher Hitchens

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was on The Rewired Soul podcast discussing all sorts of fun stuff: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-embracing-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/id1566130091?i=1000535921668

Next week: Warspeak with Michael Grenke

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EV - 210 Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt2

September 23, 2021 / The Void

My guest this week is Alan Levinovitz (@AlanLevinovitz), a professor of religion and science at James Madison University and the author of Natural: How Faith in Nature’s goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science. We discuss the role of naturalness in our political debates.

Alan's Website: https://www.alanlevinovitz.com/

Convocation: John Burroughs

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Recent Appearances: Got some stuff coming soon but have me on to chat in the meantime!

Next week: Live Kidney Donation with Alex Arnett

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