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Is Spirituality Possible Without God?
Listen now (69 min) | How astrology, cycling classes, rationalism, and sheer vibes are supplanting organized religion, with Tara Isabella Burton.
 • 
Damir Marusic
 and 
Christine Emba
Introducing the Wisdom of Crowds Video Podcast
Video will be a standard feature accessible to all, with paying subscribers continuing to access the extended cut of each episode.
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Wisdom of Crowds
Big Ideas (Don't Get Any): A Substack Chat
Join me, Damir, and the crowd for a live chat at 3:30pm EST tomorrow.
 • 
Shadi Hamid
The Secular Faith of Therapy
And other historical accidents future civilizations will struggle to understand.
 • 
Damir Marusic
16
Are Big Ideas Still Possible? With Ross Douthat
Listen now (65 min) | On transcending the mediocrity of modern life.
 • 
Shadi Hamid
 and 
Samuel Kimbriel
5
Thread: Is Therapy Making Us Miserable?
In the subscriber-only extended cut (at the 51-minute mark) of our latest podcast, “Looking for Happiness in All the Wrong Places”, Damir and Shadi…
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Wisdom of Crowds
22
Never Forget, and Never Be Certain
Have we learned anything since World War II?
 • 
Damir Marusic
6
Looking for Happiness in All the Wrong Places
Listen now (70 min) | Is Shadi okay? A friend stages an intervention.
 • 
Damir Marusic
 and 
Shadi Hamid
1
Is It Enough to Tie Your Camel and Trust in God?
On self-interrogation.
 • 
Shadi Hamid
7
The Modern Nation Messed Everything Up
Listen now (81 min) | The political theorist David Polansky on whether democracy can survive untethered from a shared sense of reality.
 • 
Damir Marusic
 and 
Shadi Hamid
2
Thinking Is Risky
A call for intellectual ambition.
 • 
Samuel Kimbriel
11
For the People to Exist, You Must Believe in Them
"The people" are a fiction. That doesn't mean they aren't real.
 • 
Shadi Hamid
11
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