Posts

The Portal Podcast #041: Douglas Murray – Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization

,
If you don't know Douglas Murray, in the estimation of the The Portal, this may well be the most important voice you will hear from the United Kingdom for some time. In the tradition of De Tocqueville and Alistair Cook's famous "Letter…

The Portal Podcast #040: Introducing The Portal Essay Club – What if everyone is simply insane?

,
If you have ever wondered whether you were crazy when everyone else claims to see things differently than you do, this is the episode for you. Book clubs are everywhere and we are always asked for book recommendations. But what…

The Portal Podcast #038: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A

,
With this release, we try something a little different on The Portal. We begin an initiative to search for ways to feature members of the vibrant Portal sub-communities as part of the podcast itself, by requesting that listeners send in…

The Coming U.S. Election

,
This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 37. Hello, it's Eric with a few thoughts this week on the coming US election before we introduce this episode's main conversation. Now, I should say upfront…

The Portal Podcast #037: Andrew Marantz – Surfing the Wake of The Woke

,
New Yorker writer and book author Andrew Marantz and Eric became friends shortly before the 2016 election when Andrew set off to write the first profile of Eric and Geometric Unity, his theory of Physics. Coming from similar ethnic and…

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…