Uncertain Things Podcast
1) In Defense of Exclusion (w/ James Lindsay)
Adaam is joined by James Lindsay, author of Cynical Theories and founder of New Discourses, to play the epistemology drinking game: you take a shot every time either speaker uses the word! They talk a...Show More
2) Anti-Zionism, Explained (w/ Adam Louis-Klein)
Anthropologist Adam Louis-Klein was in the Amazon on October 9th, when he went online and learned what had happened two days previously. Almost immediately, he also discovered something else: his left...Show More
3) ICE, Klein, Coates (w/ Nancy Rommelmann)
Writer, reporter, Smoke âEm If You Got âEm co-host, and pie baker extraordinaire Nancy Rommelmann returns to Uncertain Things to talk (again) about a topic she knows all too well: Portland. In 2021, s...Show More
4) When Speech Is Violence, Etc. (w/ Matt Welch)
Matt Welch, co-host of The Fifth Column podcast and editor at large for Reason Magazine, joins Adaam to discuss the aftermath of Charlie Kirkâs assassination. Itâs grim. How grim? Very. Get off social...Show More
5) The Lost Pleasures of Discomfort (w/ Christine Rosen)
Whatâs lost when we opt for the convenience of technology over the difficult, awkward, thrilling realities of human interaction? With so much tech to reach for, when do we lose the ability to interact...Show More
6) One Minute to Paradise (w/ Jonah Goldberg)
Jonah Goldberg, host of The Remnant and author of Suicide of the West, joins Adaam for a session of unfettered nerdery and gloom, in which definitions shall be debated, Straussian hats worn, and metap...Show More
7) Thou Shalt Not Be a Socialist (Ruth Wisse)
It is an extra (((special))) episode on Uncertain Things as Ruth Wisse, senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund and author of Jews and Power, hosts Adaam for Friday afternoon cookies and Talmud. The two disc...Show More
8) Lower Expectations of Humanity (Yuval Levin)
AEI Senior Fellow Yuval Levin rejoins the pod to discuss the enemies of continuity. He and Adaam debate the definition of conservatism and whether itâs the Annihilist urge that dominates the contempor...Show More
9) War Is Hell (Dan Senor)
Dan Senor, host of the Call Me Back podcast and co-author of The Genius of Israel, is bullish on Israel. Is there anything that could change his mind? He and Adaam discuss what makes Israeli society s...Show More
10) The Law Is How We Deal With Our Mistakes (Alan Dershowitz)
Alan Dershowitz is one of the most prolific legal scholars (and civil rights litigators) in this country of ours. In his latest book, The Preventive State, he takes the first step in developing the ju...Show More