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We’re Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid. We live in Washington DC and have been friends for a while. One of us works at a magazine, another thinks in a tank. The idea behind the podcast is to tr...

The Iran war has produced an unlikely main character: the Pope. This week, our dear friend and former colleague Santiago Ramos returns to th...

This week, Damir and Shadi are joined by Julian Waller, Professorial Lecturer in Political Science at George Washington University and co-au...

Samuel Kimbriel was in Italy the other week, where he sat down with Rome-based political theorist Giovanni Orsina to talk about European pop...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Last week, Shadi wrote a controversial essay over at Wisdo...

This week, Shadi and Sam sat down with Jonny Thakkar, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Swarthmore College and one of the found...

This week, Shadi and Damir hosted Cameron Kasky — a rising young activist in the Democratic Party and former congressional candidate for New...

Damir, Shadi and Christine discuss the latest wave of worrying data about young adults’ retreat from dating, sex, marriage and parenthood. S...

Damir and Sam are joined by Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence for a raucous and ra...

This episode features a full-length debate between Shadi Hamid and Trita Parsi —two thinkers who fundamentally disagree about the role of Am...

This week Christine Emba and Sam Kimbriel are joined by Laura K. Field, a political theorist and the author of the new book Furious Minds: T...

Against the backdrop of Trump’s breathtaking snatch-and-grab operation against Venezuela’s nasty dictator Nicolás Maduro, Shadi and Damir de...

As the year winds down, Shadi and Damir hosted Michael McFaul , a professor at Stanford University and former special assistant to President...

This week, we have a special live episode for you. Wisdom of Crowds, in cooperation with Aspen’s Philosophy and Society program, threw a hol...

This week, the great Nils Gilman joined Damir Marusic and Samuel Kimbriel on the pod to unpack the complexities of American foreign policy a...

Damir’s back from Ukraine, still buzzing — and feeling weird about it. He and Christine talk about the thrill and guilt associated with repo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live A few years ago, Lea Ypi was scrolling through Facebook wh...

After Friday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani , everyone is asking: who is Zohran Mamdani really? What motivates him: is it...

This week’s episode is a live recording of Wisdom of Crowds , where we celebrated a very special occasion: the publication of Shadi Hamid ’s...

With Shadi out promoting his new book, Damir sat down with WoC friend Jamie Kirchick to debate the influence of media figures like Tucker Ca...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Are human beings by nature suspicious of each other? Or is...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live We need to get better at asking for help. So argues author...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live “This is one of the greatest historical eras mankind will...

Yesterday, the philosopher Michael Sandel won this year’s prestigious Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture . The million-dollar prize...

This week we have a very special guest: Robert Malley , a veteran American diplomat and Middle East expert. From advising President Clinton...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Last week, Wisdom of Crowds philosopher-in-residence Samue...

Today we have a return guest: Jordan Castro . Jordan is a writer and the deputy director of the Cluny Project , a think tank of sorts for cu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Today’s guest is Geoff Shullenberger , the managing editor...

Our episode this week is more on the serious and somber side. Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk and sp...

The Lyceum Movement is a nationwide grassroots organization that aims to build a healthier public discourse by bringing diverse groups of pe...

A special treat from the Aspen Ideas Festival : a panel discussion about American community and politics, featuring a father–son philosophic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live American Primeval on Netflix. The Secret Lives of Mormon W...

President Donald Trump federalized DC law enforcement this week, raising all sorts of questions — about democracy, authoritarianism, soverei...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live “ ‘Barbarism’ is a word that keeps coming to my lips latel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Women and men are having a hard time finding each other. A...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Dead almost six years, Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news...

What is happiness? Why are so many Americans — by their own admission — unhappy? These are the central questions in this special episode, li...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live It’s the summer doldrums, so this week, Wisdom of Crowds i...

Last month, Francis Fukuyama was scheduled to come to Washington, DC for a live taping of Wisdom of Crowds . Unfortunately, as subscribers k...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live “War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live The Israel-Iran war is about to enter its sixth day. As of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live The war between Iran and Israel is bound to determine the...

It’s finally happened: Israel has attacked Iran. Wisdom of Crowds executive editor Santiago Ramos joined Damir Marusic for a live-streamed e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Why do artists try so hard to shock the public? Why is Kan...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Is tech replacing humanity? Or is it sharpening the questi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live We live in an increasingly weird world, where the weirdnes...

As subscribers of Wisdom of Crowds will know, the war in Gaza has preoccupied Shadi Hamid for over a year now, and has taken a central place...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Our special guest this week, David Polansky is a political...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Trump has been in office for one hundred days, and Damir M...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live This episode is a bit “meta”: it’s about what it means to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Is it possible to move up in this world? Are Americans stu...