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Conversations with Peter Boghossian features candid, intellectually rigorous dialogues with leading thinkers, dissidents, and public figures on today's most divisive cultural, political, and philosophical issues.
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- Liars, Cowards, and the Fall of the West | Raymond Ibrahim · 41 minIs relativism at the heart of the chaos in the West? Peter Boghossian and Raymond Ibrahim ask whether the West has become a culture of liars and cowards, and whether that's the…
- Treason of the Intellectuals | Jean-François Braunstein · 58 minSmart people are better at reasoning. They often come up with good reasons for asinine conclusions. Groups of smart people reason more efficiently and usually generate more and…
- Free Speech vs Social Cohesion? | Paul Spoonley · 47 minIf we have to sacrifice speech rights to achieve a certain degree of social cohesion, should we make that bargain? Peter Boghossian talks with sociologist Paul Spoonley about…
- How We Became a Low-Trust Society | Calum Nicholson · 26 minWhy can't we have real debates anymore? Peter Boghossian talks with anthropologist Calum Nicholson about two forces eroding public life. First, we've lost the ability to argue in…
- More BS: Psychological Safety | Peter Barrett · 43 minAre some people's perspectives better than others? Peter Boghossian and host of Debatology Peter Barrett start with that question and follow it wherever it leads: The…
- I Played the Trans Activist | James Esses · 39 minPeter Boghossian cannot get a pro-trans activist to come on for these conversations, so he took on the role himself and interrogated James Esses with the strongest pro-trans…
- Should Mosques Be Illegal in America? | LIVE with Dale Partridge · 1 h 7 minA pastor says America should ban mosques. Now, he defends it LIVE. Dale Partridge is a Reformed pastor and open Christian nationalist. He leads King's Way Reformed Church in…
- Bad Gun Handling Isn't Bigotry | Paul Sharp Live · 1 h 0 minHer job is to protect Parliament. She just won an award for service. And in the photo: Finger on the trigger, muzzle pointed at a fellow officer. "It wasn't loaded." Rule #1 of…
- "Queer Anthropology" and the Death of Science | Elizabeth Weiss · 49 minDid you know there's such a thing as "queer anthropology"? Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss says it's a sign of a much bigger problem. When a field abandons logic, falsifiability…
- Inventing History: The New Indigenist Playbook | Elizabeth Rata · 51 minRewrite the past, control the present. Professor Elizabeth Rata (University of Auckland) joins Peter to explain how invented history has become a key strategy of the new…
- "We're Going to Graduate Students Who Aren't Faking It" | Loren Rotner · 23 min"We're going to graduate students who aren't faking it." AI can now write the essay, pass the exam, and fake the thinking. So what happens to education? Are universities making…
- Is Therapy Culture Making Gen Z Worse? | Pierre Valentin · 1 h 11 minWhy is Gen Z killing themselves? Is therapy culture making it worse? Peter Boghossian sits down with author Pierre Valentin to examine how mental illness became part of…
- Is Canada Broken? LIVE with Broken Country Director Mira Metter & Producer Mike Werry · 1 h 5 minIs Canada broken? Mira Metter spent the last few years trying to answer that question, and the result is her new documentary, Broken Country. Join Peter Boghossian live with Mira…
- Has the West Lost Its Moral Compass? (or Should the West Allow Islam to Spread?) | Raymond Ibrahim · 58 minHas the West lost sight of morality? And is that why it struggles to confront the spread of Islam? In this conversation, the roles are reversed. Raymond Ibrahim asks the…
- Remigrate All Immigrants | Martin Sellner · 1 h 0 minIs mass migration working for France, Britain, Austria, or anywhere in the West? Peter Boghossian sits down with the father of remigration, the hyper controversial Austrian "far…
- Islam and Jew Hatred | Dave Silverman Unfiltered · 55 minThis one's personal. Three years after October 7, Jew-hatred is nastier and more aggressive, yet most people turn a blind eye. Dave Silverman joins Peter Boghossian and…
- Is Hungary Better Off Without Orbán? | Péter Krekó · 34 minViktor Orbán is out. Péter Magyar and the Tisza party promised Hungary real change. Can they deliver? Peter Boghossian is joined by Péter Krekó, a political scientist, social…
- Should Some Cultures be Genocided? With Frances Widdowson · 59 minPeter Boghossian and Canadian political scientist Frances Widdowson discuss Cultural Genocide. Would the world be better off if some cultures were eradicated? We need to start…
- For All Mankind Review; Worth the Hype? · 54 minPeter Boghossian, Brett Hall, and Reid Nicewonder discuss the popular alternative history TV series For All Mankind. This series explores an alternate timeline where the Soviet…
- Surgeons Are Removing Sexual Organs From Kids and Calling It Care | Mia Hughes · 1 h 24 minWhy are we surgically removing healthy breasts, testes, and reproductive organs from minors and calling it "gender-affirming care"? The explanation you'll hear is a new…
- Group Bans on Immigration Don't Work | Eric Crampton · 1 h 25 minPeter Boghossian questions economist Eric Crampton on sin taxes, immigration policy, and government debt. Crampton explains why sugar and tobacco taxes rarely change behavior…
- The Kinks Sex Researchers Won't Study | Dr. Debra Soh · 1 h 15 minDr. Debra Soh says sex positivity killed desire, not freedom. Peter Boghossian pushes back. If sex research cannot honestly examine controversial issues or even its own bias, how…
- Romantic Relationships with Neo-Nazis | Leondardo Orlando · 1 h 5 minThe Southern Poverty Law Center's own intelligence chief allegedly funded and lived with the neo-Nazi informant she was paid to catch. Peter Boghossian and Leonardo Orlando trace…
- Provocative insights from an unapologetic classicist | Liza Libes · 1 h 0 minAs the founder of the literary platform Pens and Poison, Liza Libes has built a major online presence by championing traditional humanities, fiercely defending classic…
- Euthanasia. Abortion. Pornography | Brendan Malone · 1 h 3 minAre pornography, abortion, and state-sanctioned euthanasia signs of society breaking down? Brendan Malone and Peter Boghossian engage in conversation and test moral principles…
- Dark Matter, 9/11 Bans, & The Industry of Nothing | Paul Chato · 1 h 0 minPaul Chato is a veteran Canadian comedian, writer, and former CBC network executive. Best known for co-founding sketch comedy troupe The Frantics, he now runs the popular Call Me…
- National IQ, Embryo Screening, & The Nathan Cofnas Letter | Garett Jones · 59 minGarett Jones is a George Mason University macroeconomist and author of the "Singapore Trilogy." He challenges conventional wisdom by researching how national IQ, technocracy, and…
- Illusion vs. Truth (Part II) | Randy Pitchford · 1 h 4 minIn Part II, renaissance man and magician Randy Pitchford interviews Peter Boghossian as they dissect the messy search for objective truth. Randy and Peter discuss how modern…
- Dissecting the Jason Arday Scandal with Peter Boghossian · 18 minIs higher education completely broken, or is it worse than we think? Join me as I dissect the shocking systemic failures exposed by the Jason Arday scandal. Find Peter Boghossian…
- Your Mind Is Vulnerable To Deception (Part 1) | Randy Pitchford · 48 minRandy Pitchford joins Peter Boghossian to unpack how magic methods exploit human vulnerability to deception. If our brains instantly scramble to invent comforting lies to cope…
- Civil Disagreement vs Tribal Hatred | Rob Feld · 59 minPeter Boghossian evaluates the weak, performative cowardice of public shaming with filmmaker Rob Feld. Their discussion shows how online tribal signaling prioritizes social…
- Western Comfort vs China Strangleholds | Simon O'Connor · 31 minPeter Boghossian and former New Zealand National Party MP Simon O'Connor expose how naive democracies choose comfortable blindness over imminent CCP threats. By bartering core…
- Can We Cheat Quantum States With A Mirror? | Maxime Desalle · 53 minCan you cheat quantum entanglement using a mirror? Peter Boghossian asks physics researcher Maxime Desalle to reconcile bizarre parallel universes with the reality we observe…
- Dismantling the Myth of AGI | Carlos De la Guardia · 1 h 10 minPeter Boghossian asks why nobody takes human intelligence rules seriously when building software, prompting Carlos to explain that computers only copy old information, which…
- Feminism, Sex, And Miserable Women | Leonardo Orlando · 57 minPeter Boghossian and Leonardo Orlando discuss Leonardo's book, "Sexe, Science et Censure". This outstanding work, grounded in evolutionary biology and rooted in facts and…
- Civilization Requires the Threat of Violence | Gavin Haynes · 7 minWestern Europe is filled with weak men. Peter Boghossian and Gavin Haynes confront the cowardice and coddling of a feminized culture and explain why a serious society must…
- CLIP: Will Western Europe Fall to Islam? | Dan Burmawi · 5 minPeter Boghossian asks Dan Burmawi one question: Do you think Western Europe will ultimately fall to Islamic expansion? The answer hinges on a terrifying prediction about…
- Cambridge is Protecting Academic Fraud | Gavin Haynes · 55 minPeter Boghossian and Gavin Haynes confront the Arday scandal at Cambridge and the reality of mass migration. They argue elite universities are past the point of reform and…
- The Western Collapse Nobody Will Stop | Raymond Ibrahim · 57 minWestern leaders claim their hands are tied on mass immigration. The evidence says otherwise. In late July 2026, tens of thousands of mostly young Moroccan Muslim men surged into…
- Why Disagreement Now Counts As Violence | Noelle Mering · 1 h 3 minPeter Boghossian challenges Noelle Mering on the no contact movement, family estrangement, polyamorous parenting, and gender ideology. She argues progressivism drives kids to cut…
- Are There Other Versions of You Right Now? | Sam Kuypers · 1 h 3 minSam Kuypers swears there's another you living a life you'll never witness. Peter Boghossian doesn't take it on faith. He interrogates the evidence, the paradoxes, and whether…
- Can Democracy Survive 5 Million Islamists? | Michael Johnston · 54 minPeter Boghossian and Michael Johnston discuss asking students about throwing Jews in ovens to test their moral reasoning, why importing 5 million Islamists could destroy liberal…
- China's Weapons of Mineral Destruction | Tomasz Nadrowski · 46 minPeter Boghossian questions Tomasz Nadrowski on China's rare earth monopoly, drone warfare's erbium dependency, disappearing Chinese engineers, and whether Taiwan's semiconductor…
- What Counts as Evidence for a Censorship Conspiracy? | Sarah Westall · 1 h 5 minSarah Westall claims the government and Google coordinated to wipe out independent journalists on October 15, 2020. Peter Boghossian grills her on the lawsuit, the suppressed…
- Crimes of Omission, The Legacy Media War | Rob Rosen · 1 h 13 minUniversities Failed. Mainstream Media has collapsed. Many are turning to alternative media instead. Can it be trusted? Peter Boghossian and Rob Rosen expose why legacy…
- China's Organ Harvesting Machine | Jan Jekielek · 1 h 4 minPeter Boghossian and Jan Jekielek examine forced organ harvesting under the Chinese Communist Party. Jekielek traces how Falun Gong became a marked class, how hospitals turned…
- Can The West Survive Sharia and Mass Immigration? | Ralph Schoellhammer · 1 h 16 minI spoke with Ralph Schoellhammer about Sharia, assimilation, and intolerant ideologies. Can the West defend itself if it pretends destructive belief systems become harmless after…
- Why Hate Speech Laws Fail | Sarah McLaughlin · 40 minI pressure test Sarah McLaughlin's free speech claims, from UK police visits over legal tweets to Holocaust denial laws, China's tradeoff, and when speech becomes a true threat…
- Why Elites Fear Free Speech | Laurence Vardaxoglou · 27 minI pressed Laurence Vardaxoglou on the disinformation panic after Brexit and Trump. Were voters tricked by fake news, or did elites build an industry around refusing to accept…
- When Tolerance Protects Islamism | Oliver Hartwich · 58 minPeter Boghossian and Oliver Hartwich examine difficult immigration questions. Can the West protect liberal values if it cannot screen for Islamism? Can education protect liberal…
