Templeton Ideas Podcast
1) Mark Moffett (Insect Societies)
Mark Moffett is an explorer, naturalist, and photographer who has traveled to more than a hundred countries to document new species in extremely remote places. He takes a special interest in insect so...Show More
2) Kaitlin Yarnall (Storytelling)
Kaitlin Yarnall is the Chief Storytelling Officer at the National Geographic Society, one of the largest funders of individual storytellers and journalists in the world. A cartographer by trade, Kaitl...Show More
3) Simran Jeet Singh (Sikhism)
Simran Jeet Singh is a professor of religious history at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is also a senior advisor at the Aspen Institute and host of the podcast Wisdom & Practice. Simr...Show More
4) David Bentley Hart (A Philosopher’s God)
David Bentley Hart is a scholar with wide-ranging interests in philosophy, theology, religions, and culture. He is the author of hundreds of literary essays and more than twenty books. Our conversatio...Show More
5) Heather Templeton Dill (Legacy)
Heather is the President and CEO of the John Templeton Foundation, one of the world’s largest funders of research at the intersection of science, philosophy, and faith. Over the past decade, she has h...Show More
6) Agnes Callard (Socrates)
Agnes is a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago, where she specializes in ancient philosophy and ethics. Her early studies instilled in her a deep fascination with Socrates, which ultimat...Show More
7) Robin Dunbar (Origins of Religion)
Robin is a British anthropologist and professor with a special interest in primate behavior and evolution. He is perhaps best known for formulating “Dunbar’s Number”, which states that among humans, t...Show More
8) Damon Centola (Social Change)
Dr. Centola is a professor of communication, sociology, and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on how ideas transmit and transform societies through network theory and...Show More
9) David Brooks (Human Connection) | From the Archive
David Brooks is a political and cultural commentator who has written an Opinion column for the New York Times for two decades. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Washington ...Show More
10) Olga Khazan (Enhancing Personality)
Olga Khazan is an author and staff writer at The Atlantic, where she publishes stories on health, social science, psychology, and other thought-provoking topics. In 2020, she published her first book,...Show More