Stagnation and Education – Peter Thiel
In this Portal podcast clip, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the problem of stagnation and its correlation with decreasing innovation in our educational institutions.
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The Death and the Afterlife of the Blues
This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 36. Hello, it’s Eric. I wanted to talk about the death and the afterlife of the blues. Now, the difficulty in talking about the blues is that people do not have a common picture of what I mean. Some will hear […]
The Portal Podcast #036: Stephon Alexander – Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down with Stephon over a good deal of wine to discuss particles, politics, blackness and STEM, and other matters as they […]
Lynching, Police Brutality, BLM and Defunding the Police: a Contrarian Reality Check
Some thoughts on defunding the police. Those of you confused as to what this “Defund the Police” is about should understand the “Motte and Bailey Strategy” being used. Groups that want to abolish the police talk about the “1033 Program” which highly militarized the police. The ramp up began under the Clinton administration in 1996-7. […]
The N^2 revolution
In 2017 Eric Weinstein talked about a Low-Grade Revolution that could lead to today’s chaos.