Hard Obscurantism
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA weekly discussion of the stupidest smart people you might have heard of and their failed misadventures in "Science"
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Episodes
Steven Pinker, Part 3
February 28, 2022 23:57 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBSteven Pinker slowly drains our will to live as we continue to discuss his book Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker, Part 2
February 12, 2022 18:22 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBOur conversation about the upstanding intellectual Steven Pinker and his book Enlightenment Now continues.
Steven Pinker, Part 1
November 09, 2021 03:24 - 51 minutes - 37.2 MBWe begin our discussion of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now and set off on our quest to save the Enlightenment from the evil hordes of populists and postmodernists. You can check out Pinker's book here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Enlightenment_Now/J6grDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
Malcolm Gladwell, Part 3
October 12, 2021 03:36 - 45 minutes - 31.9 MBWe finish our discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia with a little assist from a scathing review from the LA Review of Books. Check that out here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a-response-to-malcolm-gladwells-love-letter-to-american-air-power/
Malcolm Gladwell, Part 2
September 28, 2021 03:26 - 44 minutes - 30 MBWe discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly in Malcolm Gladwell's newest book, The Bomber Mafia. And its mostly bad!
Malcolm Gladwell, Part 1
September 21, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes - 31.1 MBAn introduction to Hard Obscurantism and a discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's "The Sure Thing" and "Thresholds of Violence". Articles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/01/18/the-sure-thing https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence