Aporia Podcast

Dec 08 2024 53 ep. 25 mins 16

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Are racial IQ gaps environmental?

Dec 08 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comNoah and Bo discuss Noah’s response to a recent article, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which characterised the hereditarian hypothesis as racist.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction to the Aporia Podcast 00:27 Overview of the Controversial Article 01:39 Critiqu

On the Warpath

Dec 01 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comDr. Elizabeth Weiss is an anthropologist and the author of On The Warpath, an autobiography about her opposition to the reburial of Native American skeletal remains, her insistence that indigenous knowledge is not science but myth, and her fight against wokeism and political correctness in academia.

Being a woman is easier

Nov 24 2024 19 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comDiana and Nina Power discuss Ivan Illich, The Longhouse, Esther Vilar, Nina’s conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, and whether people really care about men’s feelings. They also mention Nina’s recent controversy. Briefly: Nina, along with a co-defendant, DC Miller, sued an artist called Luke Turne

Is wokeness just beginning?

Nov 17 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comPhilosopher Nathan Cofnas critiques the notion that we’ve reached “peak woke” and argues that the worst is yet to come.Timestamps:(00:00) - The Rise and Dominance of Wokeism(20:13) - The Evolution of Anti-Woke Movement(34:52) - The Ideological Battle Against Wokeism(51:20) - The Future of Woke

Trump's multiracial coalition

Nov 07 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comBo and Noah’s analysis of the US election.Timestamps:(00:00) - US Election Outcome Analysis and Models(07:47) - Evolving Polling Methods and Election Analysis(23:05) - Incumbent Party Challenges and Factors(38:30) - Analysis of Democratic Campaign Missteps(53:14) - Political Implications of US Ele

The ethics of hidden cameras

Nov 03 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comBo and Noah discuss the recent Guardian hit-piece against Aporia, as well as the ethics of Hope not Hate’s undercover investigation. Timestamps:(00:00) - Aporia Podcast Investigative Report Discussion(09:47) - Investigative Documentary Misrepresents Nonviolent Individuals(16:34) - Unethical Journa

Depictions of Sex in Popular Media

Oct 20 2024 21 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comCatherine Salmon is an evolutionary psychology professor at Redlands University who studies the intersection between romance media, pornography, and human behavior. Timestamps:(00:00) - Romantopia and Pornotopia(08:49) - The Role of Fiction in Psychology(22:42) - Erotic Preferences and Cultural Norm

The Moral Dilemmas of Transhumanism

Oct 14 2024 22 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comNicholas Agar is a New Zealand professor of ethics at the University of Waikato and the author of Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement. Timestamps:(00:00) - Introduction to Human Enhancement and Transhumanism(01:15) - The Role of Community in Technology Adoption(03:14) - Diversity in En

Have we hit peak woke?

Oct 07 2024 21 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comWokeness has had an enormous influence on contemporary culture, but have we finally reached its zenith? Bo and Noah scrutinize whether we are finally witnessing the ebb of this influential ideology. Timestamps:(00:00) - Peak Woke(12:36) - Decline of Peak Woke(21:48) - The Rise of Wokeness(39:00) - C

Smart people are too powerful

Sep 29 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aporiamagazine.comDavid Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine. In this conversation, David and Matt talk about his most recent book, Head Hand Heart, in which he argues that a good society needs a balance between cognitive skills, manual s