My dialog with ChatGPT-4 demonstrated a capacity for deep and substantive conversation. It’s not “fooling us.”

We’ve all lost people. To death. To addiction. To fascist beliefs. We’ve all lost dreams of one sort or another. No one’s life turns out exactly the …

Intelligent machines are beginning to impinge on the exclusive franchise of human meaning, by stealing some of our thunder in language and the arts.

“Keep right except to pass,” is not as simple as it might seem.

Acts of “goodness” provide a reliable return on investment. That’s why we do them.

We are made of stardust, yet we are mortal. How do we reconcile our own mortality with a near-eternal universe?

Display of the cross in the United States is plausibly-deniable patriarchy and white privilege hiding in plain sight.

“Free speech absolutism” is a nightmare authoritarian concept that grants more power to the powerful, while weakening marginalized groups.

Verbal responses to sneezing are near-universal across human cultures. What is the meaning of these sayings? What should you say?

How did religion come to be opposed to universal civil rights?

Even though we called ourselves The Radical Secular, the tone was not nearly radical enough for me. I can’t stomach pulling any punches about religion or spirituality.

I just watched a really good TED talk from 2017 by Anil Seth about the nature of consciousness. He gets one important thing wrong.

September 11 was only the opening act. 21 years later we still are asleep to the threat posed by the false beliefs of religion, to freedom and …

No one knows anything about any god-being. Many pretend to know things they don’t know, and are lying to themselves and their followers.

It’s an unfortunate coincidence that the ancient archetype of the Black Sun was co-opted by 20th century Nazis, and neo-Nazis in the US and elsewhere.

Christophe, Liz and Sean react to the overturning of Roe v Wade. Gun policy. Juneteenth. The consequences of ideological purity.

A deep-dive explainer on America’s gun-violence epidemic. How it’s tied to our history of racism, the Civil War, colonialism and the genocide of indigenous Americans.

The Buffalo Massacre, and the psychological toll on people of color. Long-term impact of women being 2nd-class citizens. Progressive introspection.

The loss of Roe v. Wade. Climate. Energy. Guest Kevin Bolling on the war on secular education, and its impact on kids’ health, especially girls.

Drug policy, harm reduction. What does a healthy relationship with drugs and alcohol look like? Problems with 12-step recovery groups like AA.

We explore all forms of oppression of the human body. The emancipatory and reactionary components of modernism and postmodernism. Surveillance, prisons, and post-truth.

The Will Smith slap. Intersectionality. Guest segment with Sirena Prophet. Her coming out story, and struggles to live as an openly trans woman.

Putin’s war on Ukraine isn’t just about territory. He’s become the primary global defender of Christian fascism, and enemy of universal human rights.

The Ukraine war is a symptom of a world where wealth continues to concentrate at the hands of a new uber class of global oligarchs… as it …

Liz Wilson joins Christophe for a discussion about the Putin war in Ukraine, the experience of making art, and the unpaid, invisible labor performed by women in …

Discussion of the film “For Sama,” which is an absolutely shocking first-person perspective of the Russian siege of Aleppo, Syria.

Debunking the lies and common misconceptions about electric vehicles. An economic and ethical analysis of the electric vehicle transition.

Nilou expounds on how she developed her anti-hierarchy philosophy, that could be viewed by some as being “communist.” Interior colonization.

Fascism presents its greatest risk to historically marginalized communities. But there’s also a grave risk to majority allies.

Lessons from January sixth. Viewing the January 6, 2021 insurrection in the context of the long history of American anti-democracy movements.