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Dr James Lindsay was one of the perpetrators of the "Sokal Squared" hoax, and is the co-author of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody and of How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. We asked him who his favourite p

Damien Grant is a Stuff columnist and the Principal of Waterstone Insolvency. We talked to him about occupational licensing, free speech, Trump"s likely impact on the Anglosphere, and New Zealand"s COVID response. Damien"s column about Janet Dickson: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360573233/damien-grant-how-real-estat

Frances Widdowson was a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary until 2021, when the university fired her. Frances gives us her account of the circumstances of her dismissal. She also talks to us about ideas such as "land-based knowledge" (which she has long criticized) and about the controversy over Canada"s re

The Law Commission recently put out a consultation paper on whether the law relating to "hate crime" should be changed, and if so how. The Commission considers whether the current "sentence aggravation" model (in which hatred may be factored into sentencing as an aggravating factor) should be replaced by a new, specifi

Cody Ellingham is a Kiwi writer, photographer, and Bitcoin enthusiast who"s currently based in Kamakura, Japan. We asked him to explain Bitcoin to us and tell us about the Bitcoin scene in New Zealand. Lyn Alden, Broken Money: https://www.amazon.com.au/Broken-Money-Financial-System-Failing/dp/B0CG8985FR Angela Redish,

Alan Davison is Academic Lead at the Governance and Public Affairs Centre at the Australian Catholic University, and was until recently Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He co-founded the Permission to Think series on Josh Szeps" Uncomfortable Conversations podcast. He is also Pre