Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps, Michael C. Moynihan, Ben Appel, David Josef Volodzko, Steve Stewart-Williams, Haviv Rettig GurThe safe space for dangerous ideas.
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Host of Uncomfortable Conversations, the safe space for dangerous ideas. Columnist at the Australian Financial Review. Devil's advocate. Ne'er-do-well. Male(ish)
Co-host of The Fifth Column Podcast
My memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic’ is now available. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Newsweek, Quillette, The Free Press, Queer Majority, UnHerd, and many other publications.
Head of news at FIRE, editor-in-chief of Expression, author of The Radicalist, analyst at Washington Policy Center. Former Asia correspondent, war correspondent, financial editor, and professor of logic. Fired from Seattle Times for attacking Lenin.
Professor of Psychology and author of A Billion Years of Sex Differences (2026), The Ape That Understood the Universe (2018), and Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life (2010). Writing about psychology, evolution, science, and more.
Analyses and interviews on Israel and the Middle East. Ask Haviv Anything podcast host, analyst at The Free Press.
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