Nassim Taleb – #36

Justin Owings and Ty Abernathy joined Geoff to discuss Paul Kingsnorth’s latest book, Against the Machine. Our two-hour, fire-side, dog-accompanied conversation covers a lot of territory—raising children in the age of the Machine, entrepreneurship, globalism and financialization, corporate bureaucr…

Zak Slayback joins Geoff to discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum, the context in which it was written, and its relevance to today. Topics include the emergence of nationalism and industrial-scale capitalism, the subsequent fracturing of cottage industries, the rise of socialist reaction…

Vince Graham joins Geoff to talk about the early days of developing I’On in Mount Pleasant, SC. Vince and Geoff commonly hear people wrongly assume the neighborhood’s success resulted from strict controls and prescriptions, and they felt that misconception is so widespread that it merited a convers…

Dr. Clay Routledge is an existential psychologist who specializes in nostalgia. He is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Clay is the author of Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the…