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#1315 Samantha Waite: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Death

Oct 5, 2026

Samantha Waite is a PACFA-accredited psychotherapist, certified practicing counsellor, and international speaker on death literacy. She is the founder of Taboo Education, an independent business based in Perth, Western Australia, dedicated to improving how medical professionals approach death, dying, and end-of-life care. Taboo Education provides psychological education, consultation, and resources to reduce death anxiety and challenge the “death is a failure” mindset often found in clinical environments. She also has a YouTube channel, Taboo Education - Let's Talk Death (@TabooEducation). More»
#1314 Roderick Beaton - Europe: A New History

Oct 2, 2026

Dr. Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature at King’s College London. He is the author of Europe: A New History. More»
#1313 Ryan Burge: The Vanishing Church

Oct 1, 2026

Dr. Ryan Burge is Professor of Practice at the John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Burge is a political scientist whose research focuses on the impact of religion on American life, especially politics. His popular Substack newsletter “Graphs about Religion” has tens of thousands of subscribers and is read millions of times annually. He is the author of The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us. More»
#1312 Kevin Mitchell: How to Understand Individual Differences in Psychological Traits

Sep 28, 2026

Dr. Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is interested in the development of connectivity in the brain, specifically in how this process is controlled by genes and how mutations in such genes affect the connectivity of neuronal circuits, influence behavior and perception and contribute to disease. His latest book is Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. More»
#1311 Séamus Power - Inequality: A View from Manywheres

Sep 25, 2026

Dr. Séamus Power is an Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology at the University of Copenhagen. He is a visiting senior fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been a visiting associate professor at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. His work has been featured in numerous international media outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Inequality: A View from Manywheres. More»
#1310 George Boss: Marx and the Politics of Need

Sep 24, 2026

Dr. George Boss is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is a political theorist working on human needs, voice, poverty, and Marx. His first book is Marx and the Politics of Need. More»
#1309 Espen Hammer: Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche

Sep 21, 2026

Dr. Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. He is the author of After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche. More»
#1308 Stephen Vaisey: The Sociology of Morality and Political Beliefs

Sep 18, 2026

Dr. Stephen Vaisey is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Duke University. The main goal of his research is to understand moral and political beliefs: what they are, where they come from, and what they do. He pursues these questions in the broader interdisciplinary context of cultural evolution. More»
#1307 James Tilley & Sara Hobolt - Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain

Sep 17, 2026

Dr. James Tilley is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He works primarily in the fields of public opinion and electoral behavior, with a focus on Britain and the EU. More»
#1306 Steve Keen: The Existential Risk of Climate Change, and the War in Iran

Sep 14, 2026

Dr. Steve Keen is former Associate Professor of Economics at University of Western Sydney, and former Professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He is now an independent researcher in Economics, as well as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security at University College London. He is the author of several books, the latest one being Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down. More»