If You Avoid Discomfort You're Wasting Your Life | Bill Ramsey

How did queer theory move from a deranged academic ideology to popular, received wisdom? Anita Bartholomew joins me to trace the ideology's rise and the cost to children. Watch full video here. Read more from Peter Boghossian

Philosophy professor and elite climber Bill Ramsey argues that a life without struggle cannot be fulfilling. The same honesty demanded by a rock face should be demanded of us by reason. Watch full video here. Follow Peter Boghossian

Angela Todd is the founder of PDX Real, a Portland Oregon based citizen journalist covering politics, crime, and the realities facing the city. Watch full video here. Follow Peter Boghossian

Europe is sleepwalking into a demographic crisis it may not survive. Jan Vandebeek, Dutch researcher and data scientist, joins Peter Boghossian to lay out the hard numbers behind mass immigration into Europe, the failure of multiculturalism, and what happens to liberal democracy when the population replacing it doesn't share its values. This is not a conversation about feelings. It's a conversation about data, sovereignty, and civilizational survival. Watch full video here. Follow Peter Boghossian

Hakim El Karoui is head of the Paris office of Brunswick, a UK-based communications consultancy. He has authored the report on Islam in France, Un islam français est possible, and Nouveau monde arabe, nouvelle politique arabe pour la France (the New Arab world, a new "Arab policy" for France). We discuss Islamism in France, the Far-Right and Far-Left, assimilation, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti is director and co-founder of the Observatoire de l'Immigration & de la Démographie (OID), a French think-tank that provides objective facts and data as well as legal recommendations for sensible immigration policies and effective border control in France and Europe. We discuss immigration data, integration challenges, the rise of Islam and anti-Semitism, political constraints, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

Thibault de Montbrial is a prominent French lawyer, security expert, author, and public intellectual known especially for his work on internal security, counter-terrorism, and public order in France. He spent over 30 years working against radical Islam and its growing threat in France and Western Europe. He shares his firsthand experiences, insights on the socio-political dynamics, and the challenges of addressing radical Islam while confronting societal denial and political inertia.  Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

Franklin Camargo has a number of radioactive beliefs. He thinks America's incarceration rate is too low. That Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history (I baited him on that one). We get into his beliefs and I challenge him with arguments from left, right, center, and stratosphere. Franklin is a political commentator who fled Venezuela after the Maduro regime accused him of terrorism for the crime of debating a professor in class. As he tells it, the director of his university said to him, "This is a communist and revolutionary university. If you don't like it, go to Harvard." If only he knew!  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

Shabbos Kestenbaum is a 26-year-old Orthodox Jewish Harvard graduate who sued his university for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment and violence on campus. A week earlier, we'd had Raymond Ibrahim on the show. During that taping, our cameraman, a young man, got heated enough about what he was hearing that he interrupted the recording to challenge Raymond's claims. So when Shabbos came on the following week, I decided to give the cameraman a proper seat at the table.  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian      

Peter Boghossian, Reid Nicewonder, and Brett Hall review the show "Pluribus." Watch this episode on YouTube. Listen to Part 1 of this conversation. Follow Peter Boghossian