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1 day ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid
I’m not as “open-minded” as I used to be. This puts me in a somewhat awkward position as someone who has long argued that basically nothing — and no one — should be beyond the pale when it comes to debating, short of actual, current members of terrorist organizations and admitted white supremacists. Wisdom of Crowdsis against consensus, so we seek out difference even when it’s uncomfortable. That’s the point.
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3 days ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |David Polansky
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -47:27Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Our special guest this week, is a political theorist and commentator who lives in Canada. A frequent contributor to Wisdom of Crowds, he joins and to discuss two excellent recent essays.
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1 week ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Christine Emba |Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -48:57Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Trump has been in office for one hundred days, and thinks America deserves him: “I do tend to intuitively see Trump and Trumpism as a correction on a social order that has lost its way and is somehow badly out of tune,” Damir wrote earlier this week. “Something is broken and unsustainable, and has been so for a while.” and have questions.
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2 weeks ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic
Last week I was cracking wise on Twitter about how rumors about tariff policy — reports of assurances given to investors by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent behind closed doors — temporarily helped stabilize markets. “Hopium” I called it.
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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 | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic |Oren Cass
It’s been an exceptionally crazy week, even by Trump-era standards. So we decided to experiment with the podcast this week by doing a live-stream recording. and discuss whether there is a method to Trump’s madness about tariffs and everything else — or whether we have to accept that we are ruled by a Mad King, who himself does not know what he will do from one moment to the next.
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1 month ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic
We’re going live! In light of the tariff craziness and global market turmoil, and will get together to see if there is any way to make sense of things. It will be just like a podcast but live streamed, so you can submit questions in real time on the chat!We’ll be doing it today at 6 pm EST. Join us! We’ll be talking about how to make sense of our odd (and increasingly frightening) political moment. To watch on your computer, you’ll get an email when we go live.
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1 month ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Ross Douthat
In 2012, New York Times columnist published Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, a book about how mainstream American religion was devolving into the prosperity gospel, superstitious cults and other forms of heterodox faith. Thirteen years later, the American religious landscape has changed, and Ross wrote a new book tackling a much more basic question: why you should be religious at all. He joins and to discuss that book, which is titled Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.
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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.