91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield

Nick Troiano is the founding executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. Since 2019, Unite America has invested over $50 million to help win three major statewide ballot initiatives and over a dozen state legislative and municipal policy victories. In 2014, Troiano ran for the US House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 10th District and was both the youngest candidate of the cycle and the most competitive independent Congressional candidate nationally in over two decades. His new book, The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes, is out now.

The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

Unite America

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Billy Binion is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where he writes about criminal justice and government accountability. He has been published in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, The Saturday Evening Post, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications, and his work has been cited by The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Review, Fox News, and CNN.

Billy's Writing for Reason

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Dre Smith is the founder and CEO of Relationship Restored, a podcast network that delves into all things related to establishing and maintaining healthy romantic relationships. He's also the Executive Podcast Producer & Head of Podcasting at Urban One and the Co-Founder of All About It Social Media & Branding.

Relationship Restored

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On Episode 92 I had the pleasure of speaking with Max Sklar. He's a software engineer, with a focus on machine learning, content discovery, and Bayesian inference - all of which we talk about during his episode. He's also the host of The Local Maximum podcast.

Max's podcast appeals to me because it touches on a wide array of complex topics in nuanced, digestible ways. Like the intricacies of intellectual property or quantum computing, even the faults of and potential fixes for US Constitution. Max has a seemingly insatiable curiosity, an addiction to learning new things, and he's a generous host. So it was an honor to be his guest on The Local Maximum, and I'd like to share our conversation with you. We went to some provocative and at times deeply personal places - parts of my story I've never discussed this in-depth before. So I hope you enjoy our chat, and I highly recommend checking out additional episodes of The Local Maximum, available on your podcast player of choice, and at localmaximum.substack.com.

Lenore Skenazy started the Free-Range Kids movement and wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Now she is cofounder and president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for.

‘Old Enough’ Generates Parenting Debate, Latest Netflix Sensation (Featuring Lenore!) - YouTube

 50% of Parents Won’t Let Their Kids Go to Another Aisle in Grocery: Poll - Free Range Kids

Let Grow

• The Let Grow Project
• Independence Kit
• Let Grow Play Club

Free Range Kids

Raising Independent Kids - Facebook

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Max Sklar is the creator of the Local Maximum, a weekly podcast exploring current topics in tech, math, and political philosophy. Over the past five years, he has hosted many discussions and debates with top engineers, authors, and entrepreneurs. While working at Foursquare he wrote their city guide rating system, and he's currently working on an open-source database system (Newmap.ai) that is attempting to rethink from the ground up how engineers and scientists build data stores, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

The Local Maximum

Toward a New Great Compromise A Constitutional Plan to Promote Liberty, Renew Democracy, and Restore Federalism, by Max Sklar

Bayesian Inference - Wikipedia

Monty Hall Problem - Wikipedia

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This is a Very Special 2nd Annual Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro. We discuss Jay's move to Madrid (hasta luego, Mexico City!), what Jay's been up to with the Dilemma Podcast, and we analyze The Green Knight, the 2021 film adaptation of the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

whatjaythinks.com

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S03E10: Antisemitism and the Future of Analysis - Dilemma Podcast

S03E11: Monsters and Distance - David Livingstone Smith - Dilemma Podcast

How to watch The Green Knight - JustWatch

The Green Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Spotify

How to watch Old Joy - JustWatch

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Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer, a columnist for Unherd, the co-host of the Feminine Chaos podcast, and the author of five novels. Her latest is called You Must Remember This, a Knives-out style whodunnit, which is now available in paperback.

You Shouldn’t Be Fired for Being a Jerk, by Kat Rosenfield for The Washington Post

katrosenfield.com

Kat's Unherd Essays

Blackface Incident at Post Cartoonist’s 2018 Halloween Party Resurfaces Amid Protests - The Washington Post

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate - Harper's Magazine

A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning - The New York Times

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Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of The Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression. He is the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom from Speech and co-authored the 2018 New York Times bestseller, The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt. Most recently, he co-authored The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There is a Solution with Rikki Schlott.

FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression

2024 College Free Speech Rankings - FIRE

2024 College Free Speech Rankings: Student Survey - FIRE

Free Speech Is in Trouble, by Nate Silver

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff  and Jonathan Haidt

The Latest Victims of the Free-Speech Crisis, by Greg Lukianoff

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Nick Touran is a Ph.D. nuclear engineer with expertise in new nuclear reactor development and old reactor history. He's worked on new reactors professionally for over 15 years, and has run the public education website, whatisnuclear.com since 2006. He believes that nuclear energy can help the world decarbonize rapidly, and enjoys discussing this with anyone and everyone.

whatisnuclear.com

13: Nuclear Energy Can Save the World, with Nick Touran - Where We Go Next

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