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The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most im...
Stewart Brand has spent a lifetime thinking about tools, systems, civilization, and the long future. Best known as the creator of the Whole...
Can memories survive death? It sounds like the kind of question skeptics usually dismiss before the conversation even starts. But Ian Steven...
Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi has lived a life that sounds almost impossible: a childhood marked by poverty, violence, and constant upheaval...
A viral story is spreading across media: a mysterious string of scientists connected to UFOs, nuclear weapons, aerospace, and defense work h...
What kind of person helps build a regime like the Third Reich? A monster? A madman? Or something far more unsettling? Michael Shermer sits d...
What actually makes a life feel meaningful? In this conversation, Daniel Coyle joins Michael Shermer to talk about why fulfillment rarely co...
What actually causes cognitive decline, and how much of it can we do something about? In this episode, Michael talks with neurologist and ne...
Why does religion still dominate American politics when so many other wealthy democracies secularized long ago? In this episode, Michael She...
How does something living emerge from something that isn't? In this episode, Lee Cronin pushes the question back even further: before cells,...
On Easter Sunday, Michael asks whether the resurrection should be understood as history, myth, or something deeper.
Fewer people are having sex, fewer are forming lasting relationships, and many feel more isolated than ever. Why? Michael Shermer sits down...
What do gaslighting, bullying, cults, and coercion have in common? In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with Jennifer Fraser about the ps...
How much of what we call "basic morality" is actually inherited from Christianity? Bart Ehrman joins Michael Shermer for a wide-ranging conv...
Michael Shermer sits down with novelist and essayist Lionel Shriver for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when old political la...
Zion Lights used to be deep inside the environmental movement: protests, arrests, road blockades, the whole thing. Then she started looking...
Jeremy Jones joins Michael Shermer to talk about DOGE AI, government fraud, and the strange reality that some of the biggest problems in pub...
Why do some world-changing ideas get ignored, attacked, or buried for years before anyone takes them seriously? Michael Shermer sits down wi...
Michael Shermer responds to a remarkable letter from a group of eighth graders at a Christian school in Texas who say they've been praying f...
For decades, developmental psychologist Jay Belsky has focused on one of the biggest questions in human development: how do early experience...
Publishing likes to imagine itself as a marketplace of ideas with a strong immune system: good arguments win, bad ones fade, and editors act...
Documentary filmmaker Marcie Hume (BBC alum; Magicians: Life in the Impossible ) joins Michael Shermer to talk about her new verité film Cor...
Christopher Beha grew up Catholic in Manhattan, walked away during the New Atheist era, and spent years trying to build a secular worldview...
Michael Shermer recounts the moment he discovered his name in the Jeffrey Epstein files and uses it as a jumping-off point to tell a few unf...
Why do people risk everything for love but treat sex like it's no big deal? Why is intimacy the most expensive thing in a brothel? And why d...
In this episode, Michael Shermer walks through the core ideas behind his new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matter...
In this solo episode of The Michael Shermer Show , Michael Shermer responds to the shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old healthcare worker...
Michael Shermer sits down with attorney and bestselling author Kent Heckenlively for a tense, thoughtful, and surprisingly cordial conversat...
In this episode, Michael Shermer talks with filmmaker James Fox, whose work has helped push UFOs, now often called UAPs, out of the tabloid...
What if the deepest human drive isn't happiness, survival, or even love, but the need to matter? Philosopher and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Ne...
In this unscripted solo episode, Michael Shermer reflects on a dizzying start to the year and what it reveals about truth, power, and public...
What if the way we approach mental health is quietly making things worse? Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Sami Timimi joins Michael Shermer...
What is consciousness, really? Why does it not simply switch on at a single moment? Neuroscientist Niko Kukushkin explains how even single c...
Francis Crick is best known as one of the figures behind the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, but the familiar story leaves o...
What do you do when someone believes you shouldn't exist? Daryl Davis didn't protest. He didn't shout. He sat down, asked questions, and kep...
Open inquiry depends on the ability to ask uncomfortable questions and follow evidence wherever it leads. Eric Kaufmann argues that this nor...
Brain-computer interfaces are moving out of the lab and into real medical use. In this episode of The Michael Shermer Show , Michael Shermer...
At the turn of the 20th century, millions of Americans, including elite scientists, major newspapers, and cultural icons, were convinced tha...
What if the great discoveries of science came in the "wrong" order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of al...
Criminal profiling promises certainty in the face of horror: this is what a killer looks like, this is how they think, this is how we stop t...
For nearly two centuries, international relations have been premised on the idea of the "Great Powers." As the thinking went, these mighty s...
In this episode of The Michael Shermer Show , Michael sits down with two giants of mind and machine science: Jay McClelland, one of the foun...
Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf joins Michael Shermer for a wide-ranging conversation about the past, present, and future of our relationship wi...
In this episode, Michel-Yves Bolloré lays out his case for why modern cosmology, fine-tuning, and the limits of materialism point toward a c...
Have you ever thought about the science and history of … wind? In this episode, Simon Winchester explains why eastbound flights are usually...
In this episode, Angus Fletcher explains why the human brain doesn't work like a computer and why our deepest strengths come not from logic...
War begins in the human mind long before it unfolds on the battlefield. In this episode, Michael Shermer sits down with Nicholas Wright, a n...
Why do smart people join dangerous cults, follow bad leaders, or stay silent when they know something's wrong? In this episode, Michael Sher...
In this episode, Michael Shermer explores anomalous experiences through personal anecdotes and historical examples. He reflects on how to ba...
A former senior intelligence officer explains how espionage is evolving in the age of AI and amid rising global tensions with China, and why...
Archaeologist Ken Feder sheds light on how archaeology separates evidence from wishful thinking and entertaining storytelling. He explains w...