Nathan Cofnas’s Newsletter

Questioning Taboos with Stephen Kershnar

Watch now | We debate the value of taboos and the contradictions of academic philosophy

Jun 7 • 

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Stephen Kershnar

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May 2025

Podcast Bros and Brain Rot

The only thing worse than an expert is a non-expert

May 5 • 

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April 2025

With Amy Wax: For and against TDS

Watch now | Is MAGA really imploding from stupidity?

Apr 17 • 

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Amy Wax

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MAGA Communism and the End of America

The right’s stupidity has reached a tipping point

Apr 4 • 

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Why No One Wants to Read Peer-Reviewed Philosophy and Other Mysteries with Michael Huemer

Watch now | We talk about peer review, the definition of wokism, moral vegetarianism, and whether ethics is real

Apr 2 • 

Nathan Cofnas

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Michael Huemer

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2:17:57

January 2025

Was I Wrong about Woke?

Outvoting the elites didn’t change their ideology

Jan 29 • 

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December 2024

Talking with Nicholas Wade

We discuss the evolution of human diversity, leftist groupthink, and how to reform academia

Dec 20, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Wokism Is Just Beginning

Millennials, zoomers, and elites remain firmly on the side of DEI and cancel culture

Oct 29, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Thomas Sowell’s Wishful Thinking about Race

Blaming “culture” for racial disparities is scientifically wrong and politically unhelpful

Aug 12, 2024 • 

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July 2024

Victory without a Hereditarian Revolution?

My opening remarks from my debate with Eric Kaufmann

Jul 31, 2024 • 

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June 2024

Will a Hereditarian Revolution Defeat Wokism? With Noah Carl

Watch now | We debate the cause of wokism and whether smart people have greater human worth

Jun 24, 2024 • 

Nathan Cofnas

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Noah Carl

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April 2024

Are Smart People Superior? A Reply to Noah Carl and Charles Murray

The capacity for “human worth” is not distributed equally

Apr 26, 2024 • 

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