In our podcast, Your Undivided Attention, co-hosts Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Daniel Barcay explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into our lives, and how they fit into a hum...

Sit down with Viewpoints each week as we report on social issues, the environment, history, food – you name it. What’s it like to give birth in prison? Could the plague resurface with climate change? How has po...

For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holid...

Radio8Ball is a musical divination podcast hosted by ANDRAS JONES. We answer questions (and question answers) by picking songs at random, and interpreting them like musical tarot cards. The questions come from ...

KCRW's Life Examined is a one-hour weekly show exploring science, philosophy, faith — and finding meaning in the modern world. The show is hosted by Jonathan Bastian. Please tune in Sundays at 9 a.m., or find i...

A weekly salon-style supershow, where comedian Duncan Trussell and guests explore the outer reaches of the multiverse. And on April 20th 2020, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast will be coming to Netflix i...

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The old paradigm is breaking apart. The new one is still not fully shaped. If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - system, we need to meet the people who are already liv...

The most influential biographies ever written, admired by leaders, creators, soldiers, and thinkers for nearly 2,000 years: Plutarch’s Parallel lives. Essential listening for anyone striving after greatness. Al...

A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist philosophy and meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. In our weekly podcast, we share talks, guided ...

If you live in the Midwest or Northeast, you probably enjoyed that brief stretch of 80-degree days this past April. While the warmer weather can be a nice change, this unusual and sudden shift has countless con...

Over 40 percent of U.S. households struggle to afford necessities like groceries, gas, rent, Internet and healthcare. With rising costs, stagnating wages, and minimal federal assistance, it’s become all too com...

We talk about the new-to-Netflix movie, “Missing” – a thriller that follows one daughter’s quest to find her missing loved ones who vanish while on a trip to Colombia. Learn More: https://viewpointsradio.org/cu...

In today's audiobook reading, Ryan presents the sixth and final reading of Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes. Cicero was considered Rome’s greatest politician, and he has survived as one of history’s most enduring chron...

Philosopher Will MacAskill argues that protecting the future of humanity is the moral priority of our time. Historian tyrone.html">Tyrone McKinley Freeman explains philanthropy’s rich tradition within the Afric...

Ryan speaks with Wright Thompson about his work studying the convergence of sports and culture, the evolution of society in conjunction with people’s emotional regression, why history is less distant than we th...

Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo. Pleas...

There’s really no one better than veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher at challenging people to articulate their thinking. Tristan Harrris recently sat down with her for a wide ranging interview on AI risk. She...

We continue looking at propaganda in the media by discussing the story of Gary Webb. This is probably our most controversial "true conspiracy" to date, but I hope you'll hang in there and hear the points I'm tr...

If you can burn away all the pain, should you take that path?'The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion' by Yukio Mishima is a fictionalised account of real events concerning a temple in Kyoto in the 1940's. Mizoguchi ...