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Charles and Aaron sit down with David Rozado to discuss the political perils and biases of artificial intelligence. Recommendations: WarGames (Film) ChatGPT and Me **Private I** by Jill Fain Lehman, Paul Pangaro, Ashlei E Watson Ex Machina (Film)

Charles and Aaron sit down with Jason Siegel to discuss disinformation and the intelligence community. Recommendations: How the Deep State Took Down Nixon by Nathan Pinkoski G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century John PSmith on Substack A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century by Jacob Siegel Invasion of the Fact-Checkers by Jacob Siegel Not without Honor by Richard Gid Powers

Charles and Aaron sit down with to discuss higher education accreditation with George Leef. Recommendations: The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable For Our Time by George Leef When Discipline-Specific Accreditors Go Woke by John Sailer Lucky Hank Questions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

Charles and Aaron sit down with Ozy Brennan to discuss the ethics of how we treat animals. Recommendations: Do Elephants Have Souls? by Caitrin Keiper A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare Do Fish Feel Pain? by Victoria Braithwaite

Charles and Aaron sit down with Rafael Mangual to discuss the recent increase of serious violent crimes in the United States. Recommendations: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Tucker Carlson Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most by Rafael Mangual We’re Underfunding the Police By Reihan Salam and Charles Fain Lehman

Aaron and Charles sit down with Josh Rauh to discuss Florida's higher education reforms. Recommendations: The End of the English Major by Nathan Heller God and Man at Yale by William Buckley Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy

Charles and Aaron sit down with Sasha Issenberg to discuss same-sex marriage and the complex political landscape surrounding it. Recommendations: The Minority Rights Revolution by John D. Skrentny The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg The Girl From the Red River Shore by Bob Dylan

Charles and Aaron sit down with Brian Reidl to discuss the politics of debt and deficit. Recommendations: Margaritaville (South Park) The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David Musto Grey Dawn (South Park)

Aaron and Charles sit down with Lee Jussim to discuss the implicit association test and the replication crisis. Recommendations: The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution by Ari Schulman Scientific Regress by William Wilson Unsafe Science Substack by Lee Jussim

Charles and Aaron sit down with Chris Pope to discuss the pros and cons of America’s healthcare system. Recommendations: The Last of Us on HBO Losing Ground by Charles Murray The Logic of Collective Action by Manicure Olson

Charles and Aaron sit down with Susannah Luthi to discuss the trials and tribulations of legacy media Recommendations: Why the Media is Honest and Good by Richard Hanania And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts **Munk Debate - Mainstream Media ft. Douglas Murray, Matt Taibbi, Malcolm Gladwell, Michelle Goldberg

Charles and Aaron sit down with Charles Lane to discuss the political and moral implications of the death penalty Recommendations: Dead Man Walking Movie The Death Penalty an American History by Stuart Banner Stay of Execution: Saving the Death Penalty from Itself by Charles Lane Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment (Law, Meaning, And Violence) by David Von Drehle Questions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

Charles and Aaron sit down with John Hirschauer to discuss the history of mental institutions and the implications of deinstitutionalization. Recommendations: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey Questions? Comments? Email us at institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

Charles and Aaron sit down with Ethan Strauss to discuss wokeness in professional sports. Recommendations: The Decline and Fall of NASCAR by Wells King Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis Ethan Strauss on Substack Questions? Comments? Email us at institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

On today’s episode we are sitting down with Peter Robinson to discuss Long Covid and the internet’s role in spreading it. Recommendations: Better Call Saul Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters Hystories by Elaine Showalter

This week we sit down with Richard Reeves to discuss how American institutions have been rigged against men. Recommendations: The Sopranos Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis by Nicholas Eberstadt Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard Reeves SAS Rogue Heros The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men by Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin and Robert Francis Questions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

This week we sit down with freelance journalist Alexander Raikin to discuss Canada's controversial Medical Assistance in Dying program. Recommendations: Deep Places by Ross Douthat Dehumanization Triumphant by Leon Kass By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich by Hugh Gallagher

Shadi Hamid joins us this week to discuss to discuss the tension between liberalism and democracy. Recommendations: Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid Ross Douthat: What medically assisted suicide has done to Canada Shadi Hamid on Substack Zelots at the Gate Podcast The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew March

David Yermack joins us this week to talk about the uses and abuses of cryptocurrency. Recommendations: Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself by Kelsey Piper Money Stuff Newsletter by Matt Levine Questions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@NebulousPodcasts.com

This week, we talk to Joe Lonsdale about what is driving the mass exodus of businesses and residents from the Golden State. Recommendations: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo California Legoland