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The Portal

The Portal is an exploration into discovery, including conversations with thought leaders. Host Eric Weinstein, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, brings his unique expertise and diverse roster of gu... Read more

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37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke

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 se... Read more

1 Jul 2020

3hr 13mins

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2: What Is The Portal?

2: What Is The Portal?

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19 Jul 2019

29mins

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17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”

17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”

Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works ... Read more

21 Dec 2019

2hr 21mins

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35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus

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 bet... Read more

22 May 2020

3hr 21mins

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7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X

7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X

Eric sits down with Bret Easton Ellis; the two Gen X’ers graduated from rival high schools in a disaffected 1982 Los Ang... Read more

30 Sep 2019

1hr 56mins

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10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree

10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree

Eric sits down with Julie Lindahl, author of "The Pendulum". What happens when an ethnically German girl growing up in B... Read more

31 Oct 2019

1hr 41mins

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30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

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 Ro... Read more

16 Apr 2020

2hr 37mins

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21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart

21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart

Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free speech movement. Jim M... Read more

1 Feb 2020

1hr 53mins

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36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz

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. ... Read more

11 Jun 2020

3hr 12mins

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11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru... Read more

15 Nov 2019

2hr 35mins

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6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual

6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual

Jocko Willink is a man who radiates decency. He is also part of a community of warriors drawn to test themselves in the ... Read more

7 Sep 2019

2hr

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33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future

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 eac... Read more

3 May 2020

1hr 43mins

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4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

What if everything we are taught in economics 101 is not only wrong, but may even be setting us up for populism, dictato... Read more

20 Aug 2019

2hr 46mins

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20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this... Read more

25 Jan 2020

2hr 23mins

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32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares

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 Appalachi... Read more

30 Apr 2020

2hr 18mins

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19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC

19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC

All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first ti... Read more

18 Jan 2020

2hr 17mins

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25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein

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 ... Read more

7 Mar 2020

1hr 10mins

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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox econom... Read more

21 Nov 2019

1hr 30mins

Ranked #19

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23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits

23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits

Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes i... Read more

24 Feb 2020

2hr 11mins

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8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore

8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore

In this episode of the Portal, Eric checks in with his friend Andrew Yang to discuss the meteoric rise of his candidacy;... Read more

2 Oct 2019

1hr 5mins

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