Conversations with Peter Boghossian

Peter Boghossian questions economist Eric Crampton on sin taxes, immigration policy, and government debt. Crampton explains why sugar and tobacco taxes rarely change behavior, why blanket immigration bans fail, and why New Zealand's fiscal discipline beats America's.

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Dr. Debra Soh says sex positivity killed desire, not freedom. Peter Boghossian pushes back. If sex research cannot honestly examine controversial issues or even its own bias, how could someone know what Debra claims? Frankly, how could someone know anything about human sexuality given that entire fields are ideologically corrupt?

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The Southern Poverty Law Center's own intelligence chief allegedly funded and lived with the neo-Nazi informant she was paid to catch. Peter Boghossian and Leonardo Orlando trace how a hate fighting institution kept its enemies alive for donor money, and why what women claim to want rarely matches who they actually pick.

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As the founder of the literary platform Pens and Poison, Liza Libes has built a major online presence by championing traditional humanities, fiercely defending classic literature, and delivering highly sharp, independent critiques of modern academia and publishing.

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Are pornography, abortion, and state-sanctioned euthanasia signs of society breaking down? Brendan Malone and Peter Boghossian engage in conversation and test moral principles against realities of human suffering. Is the West declining? If so, what can be done to stop it?

Paul Chato is a veteran Canadian comedian, writer, and former CBC network executive. Best known for co-founding sketch comedy troupe The Frantics, he now runs the popular Call Me Chato YouTube channel, offering blunt critiques of modern television and film.

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Garett Jones is a George Mason University macroeconomist and author of the "Singapore Trilogy." He challenges conventional wisdom by researching how national IQ, technocracy, and immigrant culture shape long-term global wealth.

In Part II, renaissance man and magician Randy Pitchford interviews Peter Boghossian as they dissect the messy search for objective truth. Randy and Peter discuss how modern culture separates reality from socially reinforced belief; if our core tools for critical thinking and epistemology are broken, how can we distinguish reality from illusion?

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Is higher education completely broken, or is it worse than we think? Join me as I dissect the shocking systemic failures exposed by the Jason Arday scandal.

Randy Pitchford joins Peter Boghossian to unpack how magic methods exploit human vulnerability to deception. If our brains instantly scramble to invent comforting lies to cope with a simple stage trick, how can we expect to spot the illusions deployed by politicians and charlatans?

Peter Boghossian evaluates the weak, performative cowardice of public shaming with filmmaker Rob Feld. Their discussion shows how o...

Peter Boghossian and former New Zealand National Party MP Simon O'Connor expose how naive democracies choose comfortable blindness over imminent CCP threats. By bartering core values (liberties, freedoms) for Chinese trade (cheap goodies), the West invites cultural collapse. Ignorance currently costs nothing, but...

Can you cheat quantum entanglement using a mirror? Peter Boghossian asks physics researcher Maxime Desalle to reconcile bizarre pa...

Peter Boghossian asks why nobody takes human intelligence rules seriously when building software, prompting Carlos to explain that computers only copy old information, which completely fails to mimic how a real human mind thinks up new ideas. This sharp conversation destroys the tech industry hype about artificial general intelligence.

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Peter Boghossian and Leonardo Orlando discuss Leonardo's book, "Sexe, Science et Censure". This outstanding work, grounded in evol...

Western Europe is filled with weak men. Peter Boghossian and Gavin Haynes confront the cowardice and coddling of a feminized culture and explain why a serious society must reintroduce the threat of violence to survive.

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Peter Boghossian asks Dan Burmawi one question: Do you think Western Europe will ultimately fall to Islamic expansion? The answer hinges on a terrifying prediction about wide-scale bloodshed and a total rejection of truth.

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Peter Boghossian and Gavin Haynes confront the Arday scandal at Cambridge and the reality of mass migration. They argue elite univ...

Western leaders claim their hands are tied on mass immigration. The evidence says otherwise. In late July 2026, te...