Khanversation

Khanversation

Josiah Neeley and Razib Khan discuss the week in politics, current events and culture.

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September 26, 2025 56 mins
  • Tylenol and autism

  • Charlie Kirk memorial

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  • National Conservatism

  • Abundance

  • Black Crime

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On this episode Razib and Josiah talk to Pamela Hobart of Alpha School about education in the 21st century.

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  • Crime in DC

  • "kid friendly movies"

  • 2025 and AI futures

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  • MAGA geopolitics vs. India and China

  • Texas redistricting

  • Embryo selection

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  1. War in Southeast Asia

  2. Peak conspiracy theory

  3. Sidney Sweeny

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  • Catholic vs. Protestant

  • There will never be another Silicon Valley

  • Coldplay Cheater

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All Epstein all time!

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  • The Big Beautiful Bill

  • You Don't Mess With the Zohran

  • Racial discrimination at Columbia

  • Summer camps

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  • MAGA fractures over Iran bombing (?)

  • Mission Impossible

  • The turn against trans

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  • Israel Attacks Iran

  • Immigration protests and arrests

  • Elon vs. Trump

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  • Jane Psmith on cargo cults

  • Curtis Yarvin in the New Yorker

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  • Memorial Day

  • The end of reading

  • Glenn Loury's Israel about-face

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  • Biden has cancer

  • 23andMe

  • Trump's bounce-back

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  • Pharm price controls

  • American Pope

  • War in the subcontinent

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  • The fragile energy grid

  • Europe's only indigenous people

  • "Race war" on GiveSendGo

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  • The Pope dies

  • The economy is constipated

  • America's national parks are not wild

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Today Brendan Hodge of Pricing Evolution comes to the Khanversation to talk about the impact of tariffs on business and the overall macroeconomy.

See Hodge’s post Tariffs and the Price of Uncertainty.

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Tariff talk.

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