Should our freedoms be negotiable? Should our liberties be enjoyed only during good times and discarded in times such as the COVID-19 crisis? Government authorities want to use central coercion, top down solutions but in Jesus’ personhood revolution people imitate good role models and voluntarily lay down their lives for their neighbors. David Gornoski joins […]
In this mega Monday edition of the show, host David Gornoski contemplates and illustrates, with real-life examples, on how we can break away from groupthink and gain the courage to innovate and come up with radical solutions that would enable us to help and protect our neighbors. Can we rely on ‘the right’ political candidates […]
In this current situation we need to roll up our sleeves and get things done. But most importantly, we need a winning mindset. And who better to explain how we can inspire one another in our everyday lives than motivational speaker and author, Rudy Ruettiger—the real life inspiration behind the cult classic movie ‘Rudy’! How […]
In this episode, Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, returns to the show to discuss the futility of minting trillion-dollar coins for welfare and bailouts and how the politicization of the COVID-19 crisis is hurting the economy. Also in the show, Jeff Ebin, a young doctor, talks about how he rolled up his sleeves […]
David Gornoski speaks to Steve Baker, a former executive in Walt Disney and an expert in the theme-park industry. Steve Baker talks about his experience in the industry and provides some fascinating insights into the corporate world of Disney and its part in American culture. Ryan McMaken, senior editor at Mises Institute, also joins the […]
David Gornoski talks with renowned neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist on his groundbreaking paradigm of how the left and right hemispheres shape our world, institutions, and culture. Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind, Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field hypothesis, Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, and Weiping Yu’s dipolar particle theory are all explored with the premise of McGilchrist’s “The Master and […]
When politicians are playing the blame game and nations are blaming nations for the COVID-19 virus, how can we avoid the accusing spirit that seems to have arisen in this global epidemic? Forbes contributor, frequent Fox News and CNBC guest, editor of Townhall Finance, Jerry Bowyer joins physicist Weiping Yu and host David Gornoski in […]
Professor Michael Lisanti, Chair of Translational Medicine at the University of Salford joins David Gornoski and physicist Weiping Yu to discuss his work using antibiotics to destroy senescent cells-dysfunctional aging cells-as well as cancer stem cells. These generic, very inexpensive antibiotics have studies showing antiviral effects in other viruses. Dr. Lisanti proposes that clinical trials […]
Things Hidden host David Gornoski analyzes the movie ‘Joker’ while using its themes about culture, scapegoats, hierarchy, doubles, envy, and the breakdown of myth with the support of the Mimetic theory founded by Rene Girard. Saturnalia and other winter solstice carnival festivals preceding sacrifice, Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus, Jesus and the Demoniac, and […]
Michael Shermer sits down with A Neighbor’s Choice founder and host David Gornoski to discuss his newest book Heavens on Earth, an examination of different religions’ conception of the afterlife. The book also examines ideologies and transhumanist notions of eternal life. They also briefly engage the anthropological importance of the Judeo-Christian texts in re-orienting our […]