#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics

Tim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. Please support
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (05:48)
- Human history (21:47) - Greatest people in history (29:35) -
Social media (36:17) - Good times and bad times (47:48) - Wisdom vs
stupidity (49:55) - Utopia (1:04:05) - Conspiracy theories
(1:17:16) - Arguing on the Internet (1:37:16) - Political division
(1:47:10) - Power games (1:55:09) - Donald Trump and Republican
Party (2:12:17) - Social justice (2:34:59) - Censorship gap
(2:42:30) - Free speech (2:46:33) - Thinking and universities
(2:54:56) - Liv Boeree joins conversation (3:07:15) - Hopes for the
future