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My Journey to a Free Speech Podcast

On my Saturday morning bike ride with Jeff, he started, “Evan, that FIRE podcast was excellent,” then he added (without the hint of irony), “but I gotta ask, how did you get on it?” There can be no hurt feelings between biking buddies.

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Is it Final?

In 1926, on the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the final text of the Declaration of Independence, Calvin Coolidge gave a speech in which he said,

“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often a...

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The U.S. education system isn’t as bad as you think

It is fashionable to lament American schooling, criticising the teachers, the curricula, the assessment systems, and the outcomes. The prevailing opinion is that the current system is dire. It is not. In terms of international comparisons i...

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Trans Protesters: I Don’t Care What Science Says

No research, no data, no discussion of brain chemistry or societal development, none of it, a Champlain College student wrote, could change the student’s views. Nothing would.

This wasn’t a social media post or a protest chant. This wa...

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Excelsior: Why Human Beings Are Drawn Upward

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  • Dorian Abbot

    I am a professor at the University of Chicago.

  • Randy Wayne

    I am an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences at Cornell University. I call myself a natural philosopher as I see no real divisions between the scientific disciplines. My research is on the nature of light.

  • Anna Krylov

    Anna Krylov is a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. She received her professional training from Moscow State University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Kent Osband

    Economic historian, finance theorist, and fan of reasoned debate

  • Coel Hellier

    I'm a scientist. Posts here are likely to be about the nature and philosophy of science, and about societal issues such as secularism and free speech: reality above ideology; free speech above taboos.

  • Daniel Nuccio

    Daniel Nuccio holds advanced degrees in bio and psych. When not studying host-microbe relationships in lonely voles, he spends his time moonlighting as a journalist. He is a regular contributor to both The College Fix and The Brownstone Institute.

  • Jay Tanzman

    TBA

  • Luana Maroja

    Luana is a professor of Biology at Williams college. She got her PhD in evolutionary Biology from Cornell University, and her undergraduate and master degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

  • Suzannah Alexander

    Whistleblower, but on my off days I can bake an enviable pie or spin a yarn. Wielder of a dry wit, hobbies include fist shaking, compulsive questioning, and running with dogs in cold rain.

  • Evan D. Morris

    Evan D. Morris is Prof. of Bioimaging at Yale. He develops models to analyze PET images. He led 25 Yale profs to Israel and produced, "Indivisible. The Israeli Academy after Oct 7th": https://www.indivisibleyale.com . He doesn’t use AI for drawing.

  • Mark D'Souza

    Mark D’Souza is a practising Canadian physician and author of Lost and Found: How Meaningless Living is Destroying Us and Three Keys to Fix It

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