42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions
In this solo episode, Eric shares three related audio essays. In the first essay, Eric admits that he has spent the last four years assertin...
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41: 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 Unit...
40: 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 yo...
39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.
One of the pillars of the American Dream has been that of seeing your children go to college. And, for the many families that can't afford t...
38: 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 vi...
37: 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 f...
36: 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...
35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus
Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently,...
34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z
This is the first episode of The Portal which was 100% recorded at home, during quarantine, under social isolation. The guest is none other...
33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future
Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital is a leading mind in the current wave of venture capitalists making waves. While aware of each other for some time...
32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares
It is said that there is not one American dream but many, and few have lived more than JD Vance. Growing up in Appalachia on the border betw...
31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes
Ryan Holiday is a master manipulator with a cool head, and keen eye for social observation and a big heart. Eric sits down with the Author o...
30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discus...
29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not
Former National Security analyst turned author Jamie Metzel has written a book called Hacking Darwin. The book attempts to use storytelling...
A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew
Eric Lewis is an open portal, a wonderful friend and one of the most important pianists in the world by our measure. As such, we will not bo...
27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses
In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an old...
26: James O’Keefe - What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century
James O'Keefe is a dangerous man. He records people without their knowledge and publishes the results using the full power of our technologi...
25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein
Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein, Eric recorded a solo episode that he never released in ho...
24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants
In a world which is often slow-moving and even stagnant, there are always sectors and individuals who buck the trends. In this episode of Th...