The Jim Rutt Show
Latest Episodes
EP 277 Kristian Rönn on Darwinian Traps and How to Escape Them
Jim talks with Kristian Rnn about The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future).
EP 276 Carolyn Dicey Jennings on Attention and Mental Control
Jim talks with philosopher and cognitive scientist Carolyn Dicey Jennings about her bookAttention and Mental Control.
EP 275 Rachel Winkler on Mass Deportation
Jim talks with lawyer and former DHS policy person Rachel Winkler about Trump's promise to carry out a large-scale deportation operation.
EP 274 Richard Overy on Why War?
Jim talks with historian Richard Overy about his new bookWhy War?
EP 273 Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge
Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his new bookUTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge.
EP 272 Loribeth Ford Jarrell on Bespoke Education
Jim talks with Loribeth Ford Jarrell, the director of SumplicityMath, a mathematics enrichment program for children.
EP 271 Lorraine Besser on the Art of the Interesting
Jim talks with Lorraine Besser abouther book The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in the Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It.
EP 270 Nancy Jacobson on No Labels and the 2024 Election
Jim talks with Nancy Jacobson, founder & CEO of No Labels, as part of a series featuring non-partisan thinkers on the presidential election.
EP 269 Alex Ebert on the War on Genius
Jim talks with Alex Ebert about his recent essay "Suboptimal Revolution: In Defense of Inefficiencies."
EP 268 Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Meaning
Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his new book,A Universal Learning Process: The Evolution of Meaning.