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| Title | Date published | ||
| #352 — Hubris & Chaos | 2024-02-04 | ||
| #351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza | 2024-01-30 | ||
| #350 — Sharing Reality | 2024-01-23 | ||
| #349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good | 2024-01-16 | ||
| #348 — The Politics of Antisemitism | 2024-01-05 | ||
| #347 — Finding Sanity in 2024 | 2024-01-02 | ||
| #346 — The Best Kept Secret In History? | 2023-12-22 | ||
| #345 — Resilience | 2023-12-18 | ||
| #344 — The War in Gaza | 2023-12-12 | ||
| #343 — What Is "Islamophobia"? | 2023-12-06 | ||
| #342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths | 2023-11-27 | ||
| #341 — Gaza & Global Order | 2023-11-16 | ||
| #340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil | 2023-11-07 | ||
| #339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad | 2023-11-03 | ||
| #338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence | 2023-10-12 | ||
| #337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine | 2023-10-04 | ||
| #336 — The Roots of Identity Politics | 2023-09-27 | ||
| #335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid | 2023-09-22 | ||
| #334 — The Low-Trust Society | 2023-09-18 | ||
| #333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change | 2023-09-05 |