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CSPI PodcastAbundance, Liberals, and the Future of ConservatismJesse Arm (X, Substack) is the Vice President of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute. He joins the podcast to talk about his recent article, “Ezra Klein’s Blindspot.” Along with Richard Hanania, he discusses whether there really is a pro-abundance future for the Democrats. The conversation involves a comparison of the two parties, and a debate over what is happening on both sides of the political spectrum. Hanania mentions self-driving cars as a perfect experiment to test which side is more likely to embrace progress, and thus far it has been red states that have been more open to the...
2025-11-241h 09
CSPI PodcastPopulism as a Backlash to ImmigrationLaurenz Guenther (X, website) is a Research Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. He joins the podcast to discuss his working paper, “Political Representation Gaps and Populism.” Relying on survey data of politicians and regular citizens across the EU, he finds a simple explanation for the rise of populism across the continent. Politicians are one standard deviation to the left of the public on social issues. As Guenther points out, the gap is larger than the difference between the typical communist and conservative MP. Immigrants are more conservative on migration and assimilation issues than politicians. These are quite rema...
2025-08-271h 03
CSPI PodcastDo We Need a More Assertive Congress?Philip Wallach (follow on X) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the book Why Congress, which he joins Richard Hanania to discuss. In this conversation, Hanania and Wallach review the historical role of Congress in American politics, focusing on key events from the FDR administration to the present. Wallach explains the important role Congress played in making sure that Roosevelt did not take the country too far down the path of economic statism, a history that Hanania points out is in tension with some of the ideas of Curtis Yarvin.
2025-03-131h 01
Ken Cook Is Having Another EpisodeGoodbye Red Dye 3Ken Cook is having another episode, and this one is all about two R’s: Red Dye 3 and RFK Jr. Ken is joined by his fellow public interest leader Dr. Peter Lurie, the president and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI. He has a storied career in public health, including a stint as the Food and Drug Administration’s associate commissioner for public health strategy and analysis during the Obama administration.Thanks to a petition CSPI filed with the FDA in 2022 FDA petition, Red Dye 3 is now b...
2025-02-1125 min
CSPI PodcastAnswering the Anti-Vaxxers | Stephen Goldstein & Richard HananiaStephen Goldstein (follow on X) is a postdoc in Evolutionary Virology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he specializes in coronaviruses. In this interview, he addresses common misconceptions about vaccines, particularly the debunked link to autism, and emphasizes the rigorous safety testing that vaccines undergo. The conversation also explores the reactions to COVID-19 vaccines, and the challenges of communicating credible information to the public. Goldstein highlights the need for innovative methods to improve public acceptance and accessibility. He discusses the potential of certain vaccines, such as that against HPV, to save millions of lives and address...
2024-12-1758 min
CSPI PodcastHow the Race Taboo Swallowed Our Political Culture | Eric Kaufmann & Richard HananiaEric Kaufmann is a research fellow at CSPI and a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution. Eric explains its thesis, which holds that the taboos around race that arose in the 1960s expanded into other areas of life and eventually led to modern wokeness. He and Richard debate the plausibility of this idea, its similarities and differences with those put forth in The Origins of Woke, and what kind of policy responses might be appropriate to stem and...
2024-07-151h 17
CSPI PodcastSorting Through 498,000 Clinical TrialsBess Stillman (email) is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic and writes at Everything Is An Emergency. She is also an excellent storyteller who uses her skills to convey the hectic and at times heart wrenching experiences one faces as an ER doctor. Bess is married to Jake Seliger, who in 2022 was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. She has written a three-part series about the struggles that she and Jake have faced getting him into clinical trials. On the podcast, Bess describes the maddening and cruelly irrational processes that dying patients must go through in order to find access...
2024-06-181h 08
CSPI PodcastNature, Nurture, and Overcoming Hardship | Rob Henderson and Richard Hanania on "Troubled"Rob Henderson joins the podcast to talk about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. The conversation starts with a discussion about the recent controversy in which Rob was unable to find a book store that would host his launch. Rob also shares insights into his writing style, which focuses on conveying his experiences in a matter-of-fact way rather than dwelling on his internal emotional state. Richard then questions him about the story of his biological parents, and whether he would ever want to reconnect with them, particularly the Korean grandfather who started out a...
2024-05-061h 02
Conservation FridaysOutdoors & Wellness with Backcountry Hunters & Anglers' Jameson Hibbs & Jeffery PetersonMore Resource Links Below...
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Today, we are joined by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers' Jeffrey Petersen and Jameson Hibbs.
Jameson is a Chapter Coordinator for Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Throughout his life, he has developed a deep passion for a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities and conservation. He spent sixteen years as a county parks director with two different departments in Indiana where he learned the vital role that recreation and the outdoors attributes to both mental and physical wellbeing.
Jeffrey is the board chair for the Michigan chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Angl...
2024-05-0351 min
Energia ScuolaEnergia Scuola - Speciale elezioni CSPI - 3.05.2024🎙️Energia Scuola, il podcast della Uil Scuola Rua 🔵Episodio 29 - Elezioni CSPI, diamo voce ai nostri candidati 🎤Nella quinta e ultima parte ascoltiamo:➡️Pasquale Raimondo, Personale Ata➡️Carmela Rolli, Scuola Primaria➡️Alexander Sini, Lingua Tedesca➡️Roberta Vannini, Scuola Primaria➡️Antonio Ziveri, Dirigenti Scolastici
2024-05-0312 min
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2024-04-0610 min
CSPI PodcastDebt Commission to the Rescue? | Romina Boccia & Richard HananiaRomina Boccia is the director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she writes about government spending, the debt problem, and entitlement reform. She also has a Substack called the Debt Dispatch that you can subscribe to here. Romina joins the podcast to discuss available paths to deal with the coming entitlement crisis. One potential way to get politicians out of making tough choices is to create a debt commission that takes responsibility for unpopular reforms. Romina has written about using the model of the BRAC commission, which was relied on to close down...
2024-04-0156 min
CSPI PodcastThe Threat of AI Regulation with Brian ChauBrian Chau writes and hosts a podcast at the From the New World Substack, and recently established a new think tank, the Alliance for the Future.He joins the podcast to discuss why he’s not worried about the alignment problem, where he disagrees with “doomers,” the accomplishments of ChatGPT versus DALL-E, the dangers of regulating AI until progress comes to a halt in the way it did with nuclear power, and more. With his background in computer science, Brian takes issue with many of those who write on this topic, arguing that they think in terms of fla...
2024-03-181h 12
CSPI PodcastIdeology, Trade, and War | Andrew Roberts & Richard Hanania on NapoleonAndrew Roberts (website, follow on X) is a historian, Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a member of the House of Lords. He joins the podcast to talk about his Napoleon: A Life. The conversation begins with a discussion of different counterfactuals regarding ways in which Napoleon might have been able to stay in power, which leads to Roberts explaining his view that the wars of the era could be understood at least in part as resulting from a rejection of free trade. Other topics include:* Meritocracy as a guiding...
2024-01-2247 min
The Tennessee InformerSEX AND HAMAS w/ Dr. Bill Warner, PhDBILL WARNER, Ph.D. is a highly respected expert on political Islam. In 2006, he founded the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) to further the study of the politics of the ideology of Islam and its ramifications for Western Civilization. Warner defines political Islam as that part of Islamic doctrine which concerns the non-Muslim. Warner is the author of fifteen books, including the Amazon bestseller, Sharia Law for Non-Muslims, which is published in 20 languages. His Simple Koran is the first Koran that can be easily understood by integrating Mohammed’s life into the Koran verses. This me...
2024-01-2149 min
CSPI PodcastHeading Towards the Fiscal Cliff | Brian Riedl & Richard HananiaBrian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. His previous jobs include chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), and positions on the Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney presidential campaigns. He joins the podcast to talk about the financial future of the United States, with a special focus on entitlements. Medicare is projected to run out by 2031, and Social Security only two years later. Because of politicians kicking the can down the road for so long, this will mean that the federal government will at that point have...
2023-11-2054 min
CSPI PodcastNo Need to Argue. Just Build | Niklas Anzinger & Richard HananiaNiklas Anzinger is the founder and General Partner of Infinita, the first Próspera-based VC fund, which invests in founders overcoming regulatory capture in crypto, biotech and hardware through network states and startup cities. He’s also one of the 100 or so residents of Próspera.This was quite an optimistic conversation. The title of the podcast comes from the last thing Niklas said, which was that you don’t actually need attention or to talk about grand projects, but just to show the world what you can do. Niklas is part of the charter city mov...
2023-10-3057 min
Ralph Nader Radio HourThe San Quentin NewsRalph welcomes newspaper publisher, Steve McNamara, to discuss the "San Quentin News," California's largest resident-run newspaper and the birthplace of the San Quentin News Forum— where incarcerated men and visiting police, attorneys, and judges share their perspectives on the criminal justice system. Then Peter Lurie, President of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) joins us to talk about CSPI's work advocating for a safer, healthier food system, as well as their newsletter "NutritionAction." Plus, Ralph questions why the US still hasn't ratified the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child— everyone else has done it!
2023-09-021h 37
英语每日一听 | 每天少于5分钟第1909期:US Agency Permits Sesame to be Added to FoodsThe United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently said that by law food makers are permitted to add sesame to their products. They also must identify sesame content in their foods on product packaging. Sesame is the seed of the sesamum or benne plant. It is used to make oil and the seeds themselves are often used on bread or baked goods. The seeds come in black and white colors. Sesame is used in many foods to add a nutty flavor or some crunch. But the American non-profit group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), s...
2023-08-1005 min
CSPI PodcastPropaganda and Power | Chris Rufo & Richard HananiaChris Rufo joins the podcast to talk about his new book, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.Rufo begins by talking about his background and his theory of political change. The conversation then shifts to his new book, the strengths of Ron DeSantis as an administrator, and finally what he’s doing on the board of the New College of Florida. Topics include:* Where did all of the crazy ideas that seem to have taken over institutions in the last few years come from? * What took conservatives so long to wa...
2023-07-241h 20
CSPI PodcastAI Alignment as a Solvable Problem | Leopold Aschenbrenner & Richard HananiaIn the popular imagination, the AI alignment debate is between those who say everything is hopeless, and others who tell us there is nothing to worry about.Leopold Aschenbrenner graduated valedictorian from Columbia in 2021 when he was 19 years old. He is currently a research affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford, and previously helped run Future Fund, which works on philanthropy in AI and biosecurity. He contends that, contrary to popular perceptions, there aren’t that many people working on the alignment issue. Not only that, but he argues that the problem is actually so...
2023-05-151h 02
CSPI PodcastUnderstanding Right and Left | Bryan Caplan & Richard HananiaBryan Caplan joins the podcast to talk about his new book, Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrationality.Bryan begins by explaining why he hates politics. Much of the conversation then centers around Caplan’s simplistic theory of the right and left. This is compared and contrasted with Scott Alexander’s thrive/survive theory of the political spectrum, Robin Hanson’s theory of farmers and foragers, and Hanania’s “Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV.”Near the end, the discussion turns to the political climate at GMU, and whether the intellectual community that has been built can su...
2023-05-011h 32
CSPI PodcastMarc Andreessen On Venture Capital, Science, Tech, Progress, and More (Rerelease)This week we’re rereleasing a previous episode with Marc Andreessen, originally released on August 16, 2021. He is co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Earlier in life, he was the co-founder of Opsware, Ning, and Netscape. Marc joins the podcast to talk about what’s gone wrong with science, the prerequisites for progress, and how tech has changed our lives and has the potential to disrupt stagnant institutions. Topics also include how the internet has influenced dating, what venture capitalists actually do, and whether there is too much – or too little – money in politics.For a...
2023-03-271h 56
CSPI PodcastWaiting for the Betterness Explosion | Robin Hanson & Richard HananiaRobin Hanson joins the podcast to talk about the AI debate. He explains his reasons for being skeptical about “foom,” or the idea that there will emerge a sudden superintelligence that will be able to improve itself quickly and potentially destroy humanity in the service of its goals. Among his arguments are:* We should start with a very low prior about something like this happening, given the history of the world. We already have “superintelligences” in the form of firms, for example, and they only improve slowly and incrementally * There are different levels of abstraction with reg...
2023-03-131h 42
CSPI PodcastAdministrative Procedure and the Common Good | Nicholas Bagley & Richard HananiaNicholas Bagley is a professor of law at the University of Michigan, former Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and a former attorney in the US Department of Justice. He joins the podcast to talk about his article, “The Procedure Fetish,” in which he calls for liberals to embrace reforms to make federal government agencies less sclerotic and more capable of addressing social problems. Richard presents Bagley with questions surrounding issues such as why we should trust government agencies with more power, the role of cost-benefit analysis, the performance of the FDA during Covid-19, and civil service reform, incl...
2023-02-271h 04
CSPI PodcastRight-Wing Populism and Moral Corrosion | Tim Miller & Richard HananiaTim Miller is a former political operative who has worked for Jeb Bush and John Huntsman, and is currently a writer for The Bulwark and an MSNBC analyst. He joins the podcast to talk about his political memoir, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell. With a former insider’s perspective, Miller discusses* Where the Republican Party went wrong* The importance of character in politics* Mistakes made by Clinton and George W. Bush that led us to this point* To what extent right-wing populists have legitimate gr...
2023-02-131h 18
CSPI PodcastWhy the Singularity Might Never Come | Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, and Richard HananiaJobst Landgrebe is a German scientist and entrepreneur. He began his career as a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, then moved on to become a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen, working in cell biology and biomathematics. In April 2013, he founded Cognotekt, an AI based language technology company.Barry Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, with joint appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Neurology, and Computer Science and Engineering. He is also Director of the National Center for Ontological Research and Visiting Professor in the Università della S...
2023-01-301h 09
CSPI PodcastWhy is the West Special? | Joe Henrich & Richard HananiaJoe Henrich is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of Why Humans Cooperate, The Secret of Our Success, and The WEIRDest People in the World. He joins the podcast to talk about his work. Topics include:* The implications of Henrich’s theories for the debate over AI alignment* The nature of intelligence* Whether genetic differences between populations explain societal outcomes* If the Ancient Greeks and Romans were already WEIRD* How to understand the group selection de...
2023-01-1654 min
Food Sleuth RadioThomas Galligan, Ph.D., Principal Scientist for Food Additives and Supplements at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.Did you know that many food additives allowed in the U.S. have been banned in the EU? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Thomas Galligan, Ph.D., Principal Scientist for Food Additives and Supplements at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Galligan explains that more than 1800 brand name food products contain titanium dioxide, yet in 2021, the European Food Safety Authority concluded that the cosmetic additive is no longer safe in foods. Galligan describes CSPI’s “Chemical Cuisine Guide,” which ranks food additives from “safe” to “avoid.”Related websit...
2023-01-1328 min
CSPI PodcastUnderstanding the Flows of History | Garett Jones & Richard HananiaGarett Jones is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book, The Culture Transplant. Richard asks whether IQ is superior to other measures used to predict prosperity, and the relationship between Garett’s new book and Hive Mind. He also presses the author on whether there is a selection effect in data showing that people preserve the traits of their original culture over time. The conversation then gets into issues of causal inference, namely whether we should focus more on American history or cross-national trends to inform ou...
2023-01-021h 15
CSPI PodcastGetting at True Heritability | Alexander Young & Richard HananiaAlexander Young is a researcher at the UCLA Anderson School of Management Genomics Department and School of Medicine’s Human Genetics Department, working with the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC). He studies the genetics of cognitive ability and educational attainment, with a particular focus on developing methods to uncover true measures of heritability for important traits.Richard and Alexander talk about why siblings are so useful for this purpose, in the midst of a larger overview of the history of behavioral genetics and modern methods. Twin and adoption studies show much higher levels of heritability than ge...
2022-12-191h 02
CSPI PodcastThe Right-Wing Echo Chamber | Aaron Sibarium & Richard HananiaAaron Sibarium is a recent graduate of Yale University (2018) and journalist who writes for the Washington Free Beacon. He joins the podcast to discuss his work covering identity politics issues from a conservative perspective, along with his dream of eventually synthesizing his reporting with his own opinion writing. Aaron and Richard share many of the same frustrations with right-wing media and conservative journalism. They discuss the problems of the conservative movement, including it being prone to misinformation, a lack of interest in policy specifics, mindless tribalism, and the role of differences in intelligence between conservatives...
2022-12-051h 20
CSPI PodcastBuilding Better People | Jonathan Anomaly & Richard HananiaJonathan Anomaly is the academic director of a new philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) program at La Universidad de las Americas in Ecuador, co-hosts the Ideas Sleep Furiously Podcast, and works in the startup world. He has taught in PPE programs around the US, including at the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Arizona. He joins the podcast to talk about his book Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement. Topics covered include different technologies that may be used to change or select personality and cognitive traits, beauty enhancement, and addressing...
2022-11-211h 10
CSPI PodcastBlame Elites...or the Masses? | Rob Henderson, Zach Goldberg, & Richard HananiaRob Henderson recently received his PhD in psychology at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Zach Goldberg is a former research fellow at CSPI and currently affiliated with the Manhattan Institute. They both join the podcast to talk about Rob’s idea of “luxury beliefs” and Zach’s new paper testing the theory in the context of attitudes towards criminal justice policy. Richard wonders about the extent to which one can say any individual actually suffers the consequences of their political beliefs, since the views of one person rarely change a policy outcome.Later on in the conversation, Richard as...
2022-11-071h 32
CSPI PodcastIdentity and Elite Polarization | Eric Kaufmann & Richard HananiaEric Kaufmann is a distinguished researcher and a fellow at CSPI. He joins the podcast to talk about his latest CSPI report, “Diverse and Divided: A Political Demography of American Elite Students.” The data indicates that we can expect a future in which elites continue to be heavily divided by race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. Richard and Eric discuss what this means for our politics, how conservatives should address identity issues, and what one should be looking for when choosing a university.Listen in podcast form or watch on YouTube.Links:* Eric Kauf...
2022-10-241h 16
CSPI PodcastOperation Warp Speed and the Triumph of Governance | Alex Tabarrok & Richard HananiaAlex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk about his involvement in Operation Warp Speed, a uniquely successful federal government project. Richard asks how broadly applicable its lessons are, whether or not we could do something similar for cancer, and why economists and public health officials had such divergent opinions on the need to speed up the process of approving and distributing a vaccine. Alex also discusses the Baumol effect, which he argues can explain much about rising costs in healthcare and education. Richard pushes back on the...
2022-10-101h 34
CSPI PodcastThinking about "Social Justice" Like an Economist | Bryan Caplan & Richard HananiaBryan Caplan joins the podcast to talk about his new book Don’t Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. The lead essay is written as a letter to his daughter in the hopes that she will reject an ideology that is wrong on the facts and psychologically damaging. Richard asks whether Bryan grants too much to feminists in the first place by treating the relevant issue as whether society treats men better than women.The book also contains criticism of the political right’s nationalism and immigration restrictionism. Richard asks about some common objections to open immi...
2022-09-261h 16
ericmckay4 's Listen LaterRichard Hanania: Wokeness, Public Choice Theory, & Geostrategy — #3 Podcast: Manifold (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Richard Hanania: Wokeness, Public Choice Theory, & Geostrategy — #3Pub date: 2022-02-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRichard Hanania is President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). He is a former Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His interests include personality differences between conservatives and liberals, morality in international politics, machine learning algorithms for text analysis, and American foreign policy. In addition to his acade...
2022-09-141h 20
CSPI Podcast"How Ambitious Are You?" | Tyler Cowen & Richard HananiaTyler Cowen needs no introduction. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book, co-authored with Daniel Gross, called Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. Richard asks him about whether intelligence is overrated or underrated, the idea of “State Capacity Libertarianism” as an improvement over old-fashioned libertarianism, cultural differences between China and India, how optimistic to be about the future of the United States, different kinds of courage, free speech, and whether the world has too much or too little wokeness. The conversation also covers the feminization of intellectual life, with Tyler being opti...
2022-09-121h 18
CSPI PodcastDiversity, Debate, Decline | Amy Wax & Richard HananiaAmy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She joins the podcast to talk about the ongoing attempt to cancel and possibly fire her for making politically incorrect remarks. Usually there is some pretext that a professor actually engaged in forbidden conduct in these kinds of investigations, but this is as clear an example as one can find of a university trying to punish speech. This leads to a conversation about whether higher education is worth saving, and if it is, the best way to go about doing so. ...
2022-08-291h 29
CSPI PodcastMana from Heaven | Stephen Grugett, James Grugett, & Richard HananiaStephen and James Grugett are programmers, entrepreneurs, and cofounders of the website Manifold Markets, which hosts user-created prediction markets. They join the podcast to discuss the CSPI/Salem Tournament on Manifold Markets, which launched last week. The Grugetts and Richard talk about the origins of Manifold, what differentiates it from other prediction markets, and how their version of creating a new Listen in podcast form or watch on YouTube.Links:* Manifold Markets* CSPI/Salem Tournament on Manifold Markets * Richard Hanania, “Introducing th...
2022-08-1533 min
CSPI PodcastPolicy Reform for Progress | Andrew Kenneson, Maxwell Tabarrok, Brent Skorup & Richard HananiaOn this week’s CSPI Podcast, Richard interviews the top three winners of the CSPI Essay Contest: Policy Reform For Progress. The first interview is with contest winner Andrew Kenneson, a program navigator at a public housing authority in Kodiak, Alaska and former reporter. In “Gathering Steam: Unlocking Geothermal Potential in the United States,” Andrew explains why exempting geothermal exploration on federally owned lands from NEPA requirements could set off a cascade of energy innovation. The second interview (starting at 29:12) is with Maxwell Tabarrok, an Econ and Math student at the University of Virginia whose essay...
2022-08-011h 32
CSPI PodcastLessons from the Frontlines of the University Wars | Richard Lowery & Richard HananiaRichard Lowery is an Associate Professor of Finance at The University of Texas at Austin and a senior scholar at the Salem Center for Public Policy. He joins the podcast to talk about his recent article “How UT-Austin Administrators Destroyed an Intellectual Diversity Initiative,” which details what went wrong with plans to build the Liberty Institute.Lowery and Hanania discuss the politicization of academia and how it has even reached finance, why developing new educational institutions is difficult, how “fake conservatives” on campus provide cover for the Left to control universities, and the failure of Republican donors and poli...
2022-07-181h 05
CSPI PodcastThe American Race Regime | David Bernstein & Richard HananiaDavid Bernstein is a Law Professor and Executive Director of the Liberty and Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America.David and Richard discuss the history of racial conflict and classification in America, the political construction of ethnic identities like AAPI and Hispanic, how wealthy immigrants hijacked government set-asides, why medical researchers care so little about actual physiological and anthropological distinctions between ethnic groups, and the political feasibility of colorblindness in a world o...
2022-07-041h 39
CSPI PodcastDoes Big Data Know Best? | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz & Richard HananiaSeth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist, author, and keynote speaker. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard and is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times. He joins the podcast to talk about his two books, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (2017) and Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life (2022). He and Richard discuss the behavioral genetics of sports, whether we pay too much attention to hate crimes, physiognomy as a science, the limits of evolutionary psychology in...
2022-06-201h 43
CSPI PodcastHow LGBT Are the Kids? | Eric Kaufmann & Richard HananiaEric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, a CSPI research fellow, and the author of several books, including Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities. He returns to the podcast to discuss his new report for CPSI, Born This Way? The Rise of LGBT as a Social and Political Identity. He and Richard talk about the factors underlying recent increases in LGBT identification and same-sex sexual behavior, the connection between being very liberal, LGBT, and having mental health issues, and the influence of modernism on left-wing ideology and right-wing political movements. They conclude...
2022-06-061h 25
CSPI PodcastSocial Desirability as the Enemy of Truth | Bryan Caplan & Richard HananiaBryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a visiting senior scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of several books, including The Myth of the Rational Voter and The Case Against Education. He returns to the podcast to talk about his two new collections of essays released as books, Labor Econ Versus the World: Essays on the World’s Greatest Market and How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery. The conversation centers around how much Richard and Bryan have in common when it comes to how they think through social and political is...
2022-05-231h 38
CSPI PodcastThe Future of Tech (Bonus Episode) | Eron Wolf & Richard HananiaEron Wolf is the founder of Yahoo! Games, a WhatsApp seed investor, and the founder and CEO of FUTO, an Austin-based organization dedicated to developing technologies to fight the centralization and consolidation of the tech industry. He and Richard talk about the business model of Big Tech and how machine learning and algorithms can shape human behavior. Eron discusses his plans for FUTO, and how he hopes it will remake the internet. FUTO is hosting a Fellowship program in Austin this summer for programmers, which offers $20,000, housing, incubator space, mentorship, and networking events for those selected.
2022-05-1845 min
CSPI PodcastBaby Brainwaves and Broken Science | Jordan Lasker & Richard HananiaJordan Lasker is a PhD student at Texas Tech University and a bioinformatician. He joins the podcast to discuss his recent report for CSPI, “About Those Baby Brainwaves: Why ‘Policy Relevant’ Social Science is Mostly a Fraud.” The report critically examined a recent study claiming small cash transfers to the parents of newborns improved their babies’ brain activity. The study was lauded in the media and by D.C. policymakers, who argued its results supported redistributive policies, most notably the child tax credit. Jordan demonstrated that the study in question wildly overstated its claims, was methodologically suspect, and that its authors en...
2022-05-091h 08
CSPI PodcastThe Le Pen Curse | Philippe Lemoine & Richard HananiaPhilippe Lemoine returns to the CSPI Podcast to discuss his prediction for the 2022 French Presidential election. This episode was recorded on April 22nd, two days before Macron’s victory on April 24th, because Philippe was so confident in his forecast that he didn’t think it was necessary to wait until after the election to discuss the results. He and Richard talk about the differences between French and American politics, right-wing ideology in France, class and age as predictors of voting for conservative candidates, and why Éric Zemmour’s campaign failed. They also discuss how best to think...
2022-04-251h 41
CSPI PodcastTowards an Anti-Woke Political Program | Gail Heriot & Richard HananiaGail Heriot is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She joins the podcast to explain the connections between civil rights law and wokeness, how disparate impact criminalizes everything and leads to arbitrary government power, and the real-world consequences of these laws in corporate and university settings. She and Richard also discuss why Republicans are afraid to push back against civil rights law, the current Critical Race Theory controversy as a sign things are changing, and the importance of politicians being pressured by...
2022-04-111h 20
CSPI PodcastIs the West to Blame for Ukraine? | Noah Carl & Richard HananiaNoah Carl is an independent researcher, writer, and free speech advocate. He invited Richard on his new podcast (which you can find at Noah’s Substack) to discuss whether the West is to blame for the conflict in Ukraine. We’re re-releasing that episode, which originally came out on March 1st. Although much has happened since then, the topics discussed in the conversation remain relevant for understanding the current war and how we got here. Noah and Richard talk about moralism and paranoia in American foreign policy, the multicausal nature of war, and whether the US is a consistent defender of d...
2022-03-2857 min
CSPI Podcast"The Pressure to Conform is Enormous": Steve Hsu on Affirmative Action, Assimilation, and IQ Outliers | Steve Hsu & Richard HananiaSteve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and Professor of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. He returns to the CSPI Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion of various personal, political, and technical topics, including his attempted cancelation from Michigan State, thoughts on Russia-Ukraine, affirmative action, macroeconomics, and why top physics talents prefer theoretical over practical pursuits (If you haven’t seen Steve’s first appearance on the podcast, click here to watch or listen). The conversation begins with Steve explaining what it was like growing up one of the few Asian kids in a...
2022-03-141h 54
CSPI PodcastVision, Beauty, and Creative Destruction in Silicon Valley | Jimmy Soni & Richard HananiaJimmy Soni is a biographer and speechwriter. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book, “The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley,” which explores the early days, history, and legacy of PayPal. It also outlines the unique qualities, business savvy, and technological vision that led to the founders’ success at PayPal and elsewhere. Jimmy and Richard discuss the value of “founders,” the cultural impact of Elon Musk, and why so much high-level talent was concentrated at the University of Illinois in the ‘90s. They consider the role of productive tribalism and Peter Thiel’s meme...
2022-02-281h 17
CSPI PodcastThe Future of Humanity Is IVF Babies and Chinese Domination | Steve Hsu & Richard HananiaStephen Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and Professor of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. He is also a serial entrepreneur and has published on genomics, in addition to blogging on a wide range of topics from econometrics and geopolitics to mixed martial arts. Hsu joins the Podcast, where he and Richard begin by talking about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and American military power relative to that of China and Russia. What would a Chinese attempt to conquer Taiwan look like, and what would the US be able to do in response? This is followed by...
2022-02-141h 38
ManifoldRichard Hanania: Wokeness, Public Choice Theory, & Geostrategy — #3Richard Hanania is President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). He is a former Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His interests include personality differences between conservatives and liberals, morality in international politics, machine learning algorithms for text analysis, and American foreign policy. In addition to his academic work, he has written in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Hanania holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA and a JD from the University of Chicago.He...
2022-02-101h 20
CSPI PodcastPractical Progress in DC | Alec Stapp & Richard HananiaAlec Stapp is co-CEO of the Institute for Progress, a new think tank that focuses on accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress. He joins Richard to talk about why he started his think tank and what policymaking looks like in DC behind the scenes. They also discuss the idea of Secret Congress, the backgrounds of DC staffers, meta-science, biosecurity and immigration as policy issues, and the pros and cons of state capacity.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for vi...
2022-01-311h 09
CSPI PodcastDarwin and Marx: Friends or Foes? | Freddie deBoer & Richard HananiaFreddie deBoer joins the podcast to talk about his book “The Cult of Smart,” which argues that many problems in the education system and American society are due to the failure to grapple with the fixed nature of individual differences in intelligence. He and Richard discuss the effectiveness of charter schools vs. public schools, how the economic value of traits changes over time, if American despair is a spiritual or economic issue, and whether college degrees have peaked in value. They also explore their differences over economic philosophy, which includes a discussion of why Freddie calls himself a Marxist, different kind...
2022-01-171h 08
CSPI PodcastUnderwhelmed by Academia (Year in Review) | Jonah Davids & Richard HananiaJonah Davids is CSPI’s director of communications. He joins Richard to talk about his essay on leaving academia, how social science is mostly storytelling, and what CSPI accomplished in 2021. They also discuss why reaching out to people is underrated, the recent study on racial discrimination in emailing, reasons to stay in or leave academia, the effectiveness of advertising, why CSPI has been successful so far, and wokeness as stupid vs. evil in the aftermath of the IDW.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2022-01-031h 16
CSPI PodcastWokeness and Civil Rights Law | Charles Fain Lehman, Gabriel Rossman & Richard HananiaCharles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal. Gabriel Rossman is a sociologist at UCLA. They join Richard to debate the relationship between woke institutions, civil rights law, and corporate culture. Each has written a recent article on this topic: Richard’s “Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law,” Charles’ “The Geneology of Woke Capital,” and Gabriel’s “Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same.” They also discuss the history of affirmative action, successes and failures of the conservative legal movement, the connection between the civil rights policies of the Reagan administration and pop culture, s...
2021-12-201h 12
CSPI PodcastPopulation Structure: What Epidemiology Has Gotten Wrong | Philippe Lemoine & Richard HananiaPhilippe Lemoine is a Research Fellow at CSPI and a PhD candidate in philosophy at Cornell University. He returns to the podcast to discuss his new paper, “Have we been thinking about the pandemic wrong? The effect of population structure on transmission.” He and Richard discuss the role of networks in COVID transmission, the politics and sociology of the pandemic, the enforcement of mask mandates in LA County and French gyms, why we might want less genomic surveillance of new variants, and why the Omicron variant is no reason to worry. Click for the report on population structure, a thread expl...
2021-12-061h 31
CSPI PodcastIs DEI Conquering Science? | Leif Rasmussen & Richard HananiaThis week’s guest is Leif Rasmussen, a PhD candidate in computer science at Northwestern University, and the author of the new CSPI report, “Increasing Politicization and Homogeneity in Scientific Funding: An Analysis of NSF Grants, 1990-2020.” He discusses the report and critiques of it, along with his experiences in academia, and the growing bias against non-conformists in intellectual life. A tweet thread summarizing the report can be found here.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https...
2021-11-221h 10
CSPI PodcastThe Queen of the Human Sciences | Robert Plomin & Richard HananiaRobert Plomin is a Professor of Behavioural Genetics at King’s College London and author of Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are. The conversation includes sections on the history of the field of behavioral genetics, and why we should not undersell what it tells us about why people turn out the way they do. Research involving twins, adoptees, and now looking directly at the genome, use a variety of methods to arrive at the same conclusion and all reveal that differences between individuals are rooted in our DNA, and the role of the home environment is very limited. Ri...
2021-11-081h 28
GES Center Lectures, NC State UniversityDoria Gordon and Greg Jaffe – NGO perspective on governance of gene editingGenetic Engineering and Society Center
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NGO perspective on governance of gene editing
Dr. Doria Gordon, Lead Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, and
Gregory Jaffe, JD, Director of the Project on Biotechnology at Center for Science in the Public Interest
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2021-10-2853 min
CSPI PodcastWhat's Wrong with the West Coast? | Michael Shellenberger & Richard HananiaMichael Shellenberger is an activist and author. He joins the podcast to talk about his book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. He discusses debates around homelessness in San Francisco, the ideology driving the homelessness advocacy community, how the West coast differs from the rest of the world in its treatment of mental illness and addiction, and whether there is hope of political change.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvs4ug...
2021-10-2554 min
CSPI PodcastHistory as Told Through Our Genes | Razib Khan & Richard HananiaRazib Khan is a geneticist and Substacker. He joins the podcast to talk about what genetics can tell us about the human past and the progress made in his field over the last few decades. The conversation touches on population structures in Europe, India, China, and the Western Hemisphere, along with Neanderthal and Denisovan admixture among different races and how different fields define what it means to be human. Richard and Razib discuss questions including how Indian castes were able to remain genetically distinct for such a long time, the original "great replacement" in Europe, and the connection between state...
2021-10-111h 33
CSPI PodcastWhy Rationality Requires Incentives | Steven Pinker & Richard HananiaSteven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. The author of several books, his latest is Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. He joins the podcast to talk about this work, and the discussion includes topics such as why voters make bad decisions, the appeal of conspiracy theories and the sense in which believing in them is rational, how to get more rational elites, and which statistical methods are better than others for establishing causation. In the second half of the discussion, Hanania and Pinker talk about how the conversation surrounding the influence...
2021-09-271h 34
CSPI PodcastHow to Get Better Elites? | Robin Hanson & Richard HananiaRobin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk about futarchy, a system in which people would vote on values, but bet on beliefs. The conversation touches on the nature of rationality, why firms don't actually maximize profits, why betting markets are better than other forms of prediction or expertise, regulatory and psychological barriers to adopting new technologies, and why the rise of "Davos Man" and a global culture might be bad for innovation. Hanson and Hanania close by discussing the prospects for making futarchy a reality, in the near and long...
2021-09-131h 21
Drôles d'affairesDes chips WOW de Frito-Lay ont rendu MALADE des milliers de personnesSend us a textAu début de 1997, une petite annonce publiée dans l’Indianapolis Star déclenche un tollé national. Le Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) invite les consommateurs à signaler tout malaise après avoir mangé les nouvelles chips Lay’s WOW, Doritos WOW et Ruffles WOW. En quelques jours, plus de 200 personnes se plaignent de diarrhée, crampes abdominales, nausées et autres désagréments. Le responsable : l’olestra, un substitut de graisse approuvé en 1996 par la FDA, sans calories… mais doté d’un puissant effet laxatif.Frito-Lay, convaincu qu’il faut en...
2021-09-0312 min
CSPI PodcastEmbryo Screening and the Future of Reproductive Choice | Noor Siddiqui & Richard HananiaNoor Siddiqui is a former Thiel Fellow who has taught at Stanford and the founder and CEO of Orchid (www.orchidhealth.com), a biotech company. She joins the podcast to talk about the science behind embryo selection, its potential to help improve people's lives, ethical objections, and the importance of reproductive rights.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvs4ugq0xSvbvwArpFJG6gA.Learn more about CSPI: https://cspicenter.org.
2021-08-3050 min
CSPI PodcastFlying X-Wings into the Death Star: On Investing and Tech | Marc Andreessen & Richard HananiaMarc Andreessen is a venture capitalist and the founder of Netscape. He joins the podcast to talk about what's the matter with science, the prerequisites for progress, and how tech has changed our lives and has the potential to disrupt stagnant institutions. Topics also include how the internet has changed dating, what venture capitalists actually do, and whether there is too much–or too little–money in politics.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://www.youtub...
2021-08-161h 56
CSPI PodcastHow to Think about Stats | Philippe Lemoine & Richard HananiaPhilippe Lemoine is a Research Fellow at CSPI and a PhD candidate in philosophy at Cornell University. He recently wrote a blog post called "Lockdowns, econometrics and the art of putting lipstick on a pig," where he takes apart a paper on the effects of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions. Richard and Philippe discuss what's wrong with this paper and what it reveals about academia and the incentives scholars face more generally. They also explore when and under what circumstances one should trust statistical analysis.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Tw...
2021-08-021h 31
CSPI PodcastDemagoguery: Left and Right | Eric Posner & Richard HananiaEric Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of several books, including The Executive Unbound (with Adrian Vermeule) and The Demagogue's Playbook. He joins the CSPI podcast to discuss Trump, whether demagoguery is an exclusively right-wing problem, the struggle between elites and the masses and whether the last few years have made him reconsider his support for a strong executive branch.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://ww...
2021-07-191h 23
CSPI PodcastIsrael, COVID, China, Critical Race Theory, and More | Razib Khan & Richard HananiaRichard Hanania joins Razib Khan's podcast to talk about the recent Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its effects on American politics. Richard discusses his frustrations with the American conservative movement and the inadequacies of its approach to fighting wokeness, including Critical Race Theory bans. He also goes into the failures of the public health community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, what the rise of China means for the American psyche, and what it's like to run a think tank.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Su...
2021-07-0555 min
CSPI PodcastCan Private Cities Help End Poverty? | Mark Lutter & Richard HananiaMark Lutter has a PhD in economics from George Mason University and is the Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute. He joins the podcast to talk about his vision of how privately run cities can help end poverty. The discussion includes topics such as the philosophy behind charter cities, mistakes made by the charter city movement in the past, and ongoing projects. Richard and Mark also talk about intellectual entrepreneurship, what the success of China means for American cultural hegemony, the narrowness of academic thought, and why smart young people should seek careers outside of the university.
2021-06-211h 16
CSPI PodcastThe Good War? Myths of World War II | Sean McMeekin & Richard HananiaSean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard University and the author of Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. He joins Richard for a wide ranging discussion about the myths of World War II. They touch on the morality of the conflict, moral differences between Nazis and the USSR, the role of Soviet agents in determining US and British policy, and whether the western allies could have prevented communist takeovers in China, Poland and Yugoslavia.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CS...
2021-06-071h 48
CSPI PodcastCan Psychology Be Fixed? | Jesse Singal & Richard HananiaJesse Singal is a contributing writer to New York Magazine and the author of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills. He discusses his book, why bad science ends up having an influence, the possible causes behind the recent uptick in crime, and whether the peer review system can be reformed or needs to be replaced.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvs4ugq0xSvbvwArpFJG6gA.Le...
2021-05-241h 03
CSPI PodcastToo Much Education and Too Few Kids | Bryan Caplan & Richard HananiaBryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders. He and Richard discuss their experiences in academia and why people get too much education and don't have enough kids. They also go into why parenting might not matter on average but having Bryan Caplan as a parent might, in addition to the ethics and politics of open borders, and how the conversation around the topic has changed.Sign up for CSPI’s Su...
2021-05-101h 30
The American Health PodcastBloomberg Fellows Spotlight: Ashley HicksonAshley is a Senior Policy Associate at the Center For Science in Public Interest (CSPI), a non-profit consumer advocacy group that advocates for safer and healthier foods. In this episode, you'll hear about Ashley’s work at CSPI and how support from the fellowship program helped her examine the difference in food retail quality between high and low-income communities in the South. Learn more about the CSPI, visit: https://www.cspinet.org To learn more about the Bloomberg American Health Initiative and the Bloomberg Fellows Program, visit https://americanhealth.jhu.edu/.
2021-04-2907 min
CSPI PodcastDo We Have Too Much Democracy? | Garett Jones & Richard HananiaGarett Jones is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of 10% Less Democracy and Hive Mind. He joins the podcast to talk about his latest book arguing that some countries may have too much democracy. In the course of the discussion, Richard and Garett discuss experts and the Iraq War, judicial review, the Singapore model, the western response to COVID-19, and whether China can be considered a non-democratic success story.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to ou...
2021-04-261h 15
CSPI PodcastWar as Product of Human Stupidity | John Mueller & Richard HananiaJohn Mueller is a Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University and a Research Fellow at the Cato Institute. His latest book is called The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency. He and Richard discuss how to explain the decline of war, why World War I was a cultural turning point, Hitler as a historical outlier, the Cold War, the war on terror, and the rise of China, among other topics. They also talk about Mueller's article "The Banality of 'Ethnic War'", on what people get wrong about civil wars and mass killing.
2021-04-121h 26
CSPI PodcastAcademic Freedom, Part II | Eric Kaufmann & Richard HananiaEric Kaufmann joins Richard Hanania to continue the discussion of his report on academic freedom. Eric discusses recent reforms in the UK, and they debate what the policy response to suppression should be in the US. Eric favors a wide scale effort to remake the universities and ultimately change the culture, while Richard calls for encouraging fewer people to go to college and reducing the influence of the academy.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://ww...
2021-03-291h 44
In PraxisCombatting the Rise of Soda - Mike JacobsonMichael Jacobson, senior scientist at and co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), tracks the rise of soda consumption, proliferation of research on its health effects, and industry responses over the years. As former Executive Director of CSPI for 40 years until 2017 and author of books such as Nutrition Scoreboard: your guide to better eating and the recently released Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet, Mike draws on decades of experience as a nutrition advocate. He describes in depth the deeply politicized nature of the fight for SSB taxes and...
2021-03-2631 min
CSPI PodcastWar on Science | Philippe Lemoine & Richard HananiaPhilippe Lemoine is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Cornell University and a research fellow at CSPI. He recently started a blog, War on Science, on the CSPI website, and wrote a post arguing that lockdowns do not pass a cost-benefit analysis. An op-ed based on his research was published in the Wall Street Journal. Philippe joins Richard to discuss COVID-19, the differences in performance between East Asia and the West, the problems with modern academia, and how the American culture war is playing out in France.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.
2021-03-151h 46
Pharmacist's VoiceInterview with Angel Bivens, BS Pharm, MBA, CSPIListener discretion is advised. Some of the topics in this episode include children putting weird things in their mouths and poisonings. Today's episode is an interview with Angel Bivens. Angel is a pharmacist by training. She has experience in retail, hospital, home infusion, and mail order pharmacy, but her true passion is working at the Maryland Poison Center (MPC). The Maryland Poison Center is part of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Angel has been with the Maryland Poison Center for over 25 years. She spent the...
2021-03-1259 min
CSPI PodcastAcademic Freedom, Part I | Eric Kaufmann & Richard HananiaEric Kaufmann is a research fellow at CSPI and Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of a new CSPI report titled "Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship." Eric joins Richard to talk about the evidence for discrimination against non-liberal views in academia. They also discuss personal experiences and when and under what circumstances discrimination can be justified.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://www.youtube.co...
2021-03-021h 37
TapinJan Zmeškal a Milan Podlipný (Centrum pro studium politického islámu, CSPI) 23.5.2018Centrum pro studium politického islámu (CSPI) je neziskové, apolitické a nenáboženské mezinárodní vzdělávací hnutí věnující se osvětě o islámské politice inspirované Dr. Billem Warnerem. Politický islám představuje část islámu týkající se káfirů (nemuslimů). 51% obsahu hlavních textů islámské doktríny se zabývá káfiry, tedy nevěřícími. Islám je monoteistické abrahámovské náboženství založené na učení proroka Mohameda. Slovo islám znamená „podrobení se“ nebo odevzdání se Bohu.
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2021-02-201h 35
Food IssuesCOVID-19 & School Lunch: Episode #002In recent years, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has become more political than ever before with rollbacks and attacks on the nutrition standards. Virtually overnight, COVID-19 has also had a significant impact and changed who qualifies for free school meals, the types of food kids are served, and the ways in which they access meals. Throughout 2020, the USDA and the Trump administration implemented school lunch waivers and proposed rules that have the potential to affect kids’ health and lead to increased rates of childhood obesity. In this episode, I interview Colin Schwartz, Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs at the Ce...
2021-02-0952 min
CSPI PodcastUS Civil War? | Razib Khan & Richard HananiaRazib Khan is the host of the Unsupervised Learning podcast. In the days following the Capitol Hill riots, he invited Richard Hanania on to talk about the likelihood of future political violence in the United States, the strength of partisanship, and the future of Trump and his movement. That podcast is rereleased here on CSPI, with a new intro, in which Richard looks back on how well his predictions have help up over the past month.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to...
2021-02-041h 29
CSPI PodcastThe Great Awokening | Zach Goldberg & Richard HananiaZach Goldberg is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University and research fellow at CSPI. He is generally credited with discovering the "Great Awokening," the leftward shift on race and identity issues that has occurred in the media and among white liberals over the last decade. Zach joins Richard to talk about his research, the evidence showing that the media caused the shift in public opinion, and his experience in Israel and how that has affected his views on American politics.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://tw...
2021-01-222h 04
CSPI PodcastThe National Populist Illusion | George Hawley & Richard HananiaOn the inaugural CSPI podcast, George Hawley joins Richard Hanania to talk about his books on the conservative movement, the alt right, and the differences between Trump in 2016 and 2020. They also discuss their article, The National Populist Illusion, on why economic concerns do not explain the rise of Trump.Sign up for CSPI’s Substack newsletter: https://cspi.substack.com.Follow CSPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPICenterOrg.Subscribe to our YouTube for video podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvs4ugq0xSvbvwArpFJG6gA.Learn more about CSPI: https://cspicenter.org. Get full ac...
2021-01-091h 07
Logos Media (formerly Gnostic Media)UnSpun 179 – Dr. Bill Warner: “Political Islam”
Live tonight, Tuesday, December 31, at 5:00pm Pacific time – UnSpun #179 - simulcast on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch:
Dr. Bill Warner joins us to discuss Political Islam.
Because political Islam has subjugated other civilizations for 1400 years, Dr. Bill Warner founded the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) to further the analysis of its doctrine and the ramifications for Western Civilization. Its mission is to educate the world about the doctrine of Islamic politics through his work and CSPI research. He has written over a dozen books that make the doctrine of political Islam easy to...
2019-12-311h 01
The Cancer Dietitian Podcast6 - Superfoods, Supplements and CBDToday’s topic is “superfoods”, supplements and CBD. It might seem like a strange combination, but I find that sales tactics and marketing efforts for all three are very similar, and play on some misunderstandings that most people have about nutrition, how our bodies work, and what the current evidence shows. To be honest, this topic was just going to be about the idea of superfoods, but with all the CBD craziness, I had an oncologist almost beg me to talk about CBD. So… I decided to throw it in with this one! In typical “Julie style”, this episode...
2019-12-1024 min
Strikedeck Radio: Customer Success LiveEp 54 - Andreas Knoefel, CS Management Consultant & Inventor of CSPIAndreas, a seasoned customer success leader, fellow consultant and partner in the development of the Customer Success Performance Index, joins Kristen to discuss the CSPI - a publicly available tool that CS leaders can use to benchmark their performance on 8 dimensions.
2019-05-1730 min
Soaring Eagle RadioBill Warner - Islam is a Political Satanic IdeologyLeftists in America have taken over our educational system and as a result of this takeover, have facilitated the introduction and spread of Political Islam as a religion of peace.It is past time for true conservatives, libertarians, those who love true freedom and liberty as set forth in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, and by the way, Christians should be leading the fight; it is time to enter into a public discourse and if need be become aggressive opponents of the acquiescence to this cultural and national suicide. It is time to stop the spread...
2017-09-0955 min