The Portal is an exploration into discovery, including conversations with thought leaders. Host Eric
Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of
Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn
Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free sp
Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geomet
All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each ot
This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who laun
Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the
In this episode, Eric sits down with Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy
Garrett Lisi, the so called "Surf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)", is a PhD theoretical
What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground.&
In this cordially combative episode, Eric sits down with Russian chess legend, multiple-year champio
In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto
On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher
Eric sits down with Julie Lindahl, author of "The Pendulum". What happens when an ethnically German
Eric sits down with friend, philosopher, comic, actor and fighter Bryan Callen for a wide ranging co
In this episode of the Portal, Eric checks in with his friend Andrew Yang to discuss the meteoric ri
Eric sits down with Bret Easton Ellis; the two Gen X’ers graduated from rival high schools in a disa
Jocko Willink is a man who radiates decency. He is also part of a community of warriors drawn to tes
Beyond New Atheism: is a constructive adult relationship possible between atheism and religion?
What if everything we are taught in economics 101 is not only wrong, but may even be setting us up f
