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2 weeks ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Samuel Kimbriel |Jenara Nerenberg
This episode is a bit “meta”: it’s about what it means to keep an open mind, how to trust your conscience, why we should all avoid groupthink, and the phenomenon of “self silencing” — keeping your views to yourself when you’re afraid it might be too costly to say them out loud. But of course, this being Wisdom of Crowds, we link these meta-topics to the politics of the day.
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3 weeks ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Samuel Kimbriel |Yoni Appelbaum
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -50:56Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Is it possible to move up in this world? Are Americans stuck? Our guest today is , an American historian and staff writer at The Atlantic magazine.
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1 month ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Percy Bysshe Shelley |Samuel Kimbriel |Matthew Gasda |Ted Gioia
This week, we tried an experiment: a Substack live event! wrote a popular article about Romanticism, his contribution to an ongoing debate. had a few disagreements with Gasda’s piece. In the spirit of Wisdom of Crowds, we hosted our first-ever live-streamed Substack debate. It went pretty well! We hope to host more. By popular demand, here is a video recording of that debate.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Osita Nwanevu |Damir Marusic |Samuel Kimbriel |Oliver Traldi
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -46:49Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Last week’s episode dealt with the state of the American Right post-election. Today we ask: Where is the American Left going? How will it respond to Trump? “There is a palpable sense of passivity on the Left,” says . “What I’ve seen is resignation or weird, detached analysis,” says . Is there more going on than we see?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Samuel Kimbriel
The American director David Lynch died today, age 78. His work prompted millions of viewers to wrestle with the mysterious and the sublime — among them, , provoked by Lynch’s Twin Peaks to write a probing essay, re-posted below. RIP David Lynch. — Santiago Ramos, executive editorA few weeks back, on an episode of the pod that turned very existential, (rightly) pressed me about what she felt was a cop-out response.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Samuel Kimbriel
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:02:53Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. As election data analysis continues to pour in, we can be sure of one thing: a large number of working class votes which traditionally would have gone to the Democrats shifted in 2024 toward the GOP.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Samuel Kimbriel
TheProvocation. Wisdom of Crowds is a long, loud, sometimes contentious, often hilarious, ongoing argument — not only among our editors, but also the crowd. Once a month, subscribers have the chance to pester, goad, torment one of our writers— Shadi, Damir, Christine, Samuel, or Santiago. This month, it’s ’s turn.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Samuel Kimbriel
In today’s Debate, Wisdom of Crowds asks: What is politics? and began to argue this question in a recent podcast episode. They continue their argument here. Sam believes politics is inseparable from philosophical questions about the good life and the nature of justice. Politics is the arena where those questions are contested. Damir disagrees. For him, those questions can only be asked and answered by an individual. Politics is the realm of conflict between different visions of goodness and justice.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Samuel Kimbriel |Damir Marusic
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Official WoC house philosopher joins and to discuss the role that ideas had in the recent elections. Specifically, they focus on whether it was bad ideas or bad political strategy that doomed the Dems. Sam insists that the Democrats failed because liberalism as we understand it has become weak, devoid of ideas and moral persuasion.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Christine Emba |Samuel Kimbriel |Santiago Ramos
Kristina (8:22): vs Carville looking tired, and it’s not even 8:30…Audrey Horne (8:11PM): Kornacki with the sleeves rolled up? He knows what he’s doing…Santiago Ramos (8:11PM): Samuel Kimbriel I’m pretty sure there were no supermarkets in Plato’s time. Are you confusing him with Allen Ginsberg? Audrey Horne (8:04PM): I’m soooo amped off this martini and also the vibes.
