Recent Episodes
Brad DeLong: Are We Slouching Toward Utopia?
Too often, the questions that we ask about our own time-period reflect a limited understanding of history. For example, consider the question: why is there still poverty and inequality? It’s a...
Steve McIntosh: Does Human Nature Evolve?
Steve McIntosh is already a regular guest on this podcast, and that’s no accident. Steve and I have been collaborating for many years, and we even cofounded the Institute for Cultural Evolution...
Integral Conversations: Culture Wars and Human Progress with Jeff Salzman
As my regular listeners will know, I’m deeply influenced by the perspective known as Integral philosophy, and in particular, the insights it affords us into how human culture has evolved—and is...
Edward Chancellor: Money, Financial Bubbles, and the Price of Time
Inflation. Recession. Bubbles. Interest rates. Sovereign debt crisis. Today, everyone’s financial portfolio is falling and that makes people upset about markets and economics. But being angry or...
Tom Mustill: How to Speak Whale
What would you do if a whale landed on top of you—and you lived to tell the tale? That’s exactly what happened to wildlife biologist and filmmaker Tom Mustill in 2015, when a breaching humpback...
Diana Pasulka: Religion, UFOs, and the Experience of the Uncanny
In her the 2019 book American Cosmic, scholar Diana Pasulka offers a surprising and original perspective on one of my favorite topics: UFOs. She proposes that UFOs and the obsession with them has...
Meredith Angwin: Energy, Carbon, and the Growing Fragility of Our National Grid
When we think about energy, we often forget one critical element—the grid. Most of us depend every day on our national grid to supply the energy we need for our life and work. And our need for...
Christopher Leonard: Did the Fed and Easy Money Break the American Economy?
If you’ve followed this podcast for a while, you’ll know that I’m something of an economics nerd, and occasionally I indulge this passion by choosing guests who can offer insight into our past,...
Darryl Jones: Roads, Wildlife, and the Future of Conservation
Why did the leopard cross the road? Well, because he had to. He might have been looking for food, or a mate, or a new territory. But if he made it safely to the other side, it just might be because...
Chris Bache: LSD and the Exploration of the Inner Cosmos
Psychedelics are having a moment. There’s never been a time in which we’ve seen more research into, experimentation with, and acceptance of the use of psychedelics—for therapy, for inner...
Steve McIntosh: Reconciling American Pride and Shame
Regular listeners of this podcast or those who have followed my work over the years will recognize the name Steve McIntosh. Steve and I have been collaborating for almost two decades, including as...
Gary Lachman: The Esoteric Undercurrents of Putin’s War on Ukraine
In our modern world, we often think of history as being mostly driven by international politics and economics and technology and demographics and the movement of money. Much of the time, that’s...
Gregg Easterbrook: Promises and Perils of the Blue Age
When was the last time you remember a significant battle on the high seas? If you’re like me, such an event may well be hard to recall. I’m old enough to remember the Falklands war, but that’s about...
Mariana Bozesan: Integral Investing in a World of Abundance
Mariana Bozesan, author of Integral Investing: From Profit to Prosperity, has lived her life in several distinct worlds—from a childhood of painful poverty in communist Romania, to the technological...
Greg Thomas: How Jazz Can Help Us Think About Race
How do we think about race in America today? This question continues to be core to the evolution of our national experiment. And it has come even further to the forefront in recent years, as the...
Ross Coulthart: UFOs—Is the Truth in Plain Sight?
UFOs. Or to use the current in-vogue acronym, UAPs. It’s a topic rife with conspiracies and strange complexities. Many people just want to avoid it altogether. But it’s also an explosive story, with...
Sergey Young: Are You Ready for Radical Longevity?
Would you like to live a bit longer, maybe a lot longer? Do you think it’s possible? Do you think it will be possible in the future? In this episode of Thinking Ahead, I want to introduce you to an...
Steve McIntosh: Building a Post-Progressive Movement
For this episode, I'm happy to welcome back one of my first guests on this podcast, my longtime collaborator and cofounder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution, Steve McIntosh. Since that earlier...
Eric Wargo: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Precognitive Dreamwork
Last year, in episode 3 of this podcast, I interviewed Eric Wargo, author of Time Loops. I had gotten to know Eric at a conference a few years earlier at the Esalen Center for Theory and Research. I...
Carter’s Rants & Reflections: Who Wants to Skip the Civil War?
In this reflection, originally published as an article on The Post-Progressive Post, I pose the question: What if the ethical challenge of our own time is not to have the courage to be a combatant...
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