Sally Kohn: I was very interested in your conversation with Glenn Lowry, who's a professor of social sciences and economics at Brown. Lowry described political correctness as a moral signaling equilibrium where people don't want to be thought of as on the wrong side of history. Kohn: My view is just that I am totally allergic to identity politics. That will not give us the world we want to live in. She says race has no more moral significance than hair color.
Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster, author, meditation guru, and unabashed atheist Sam Harris is one of our best-known — and most controversial — public intellectuals. In this bonus episode, he and Rufus talk about consciousness, free will, morality, and people’s stubborn insistence on being irrational.