The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

Episodes · 25

Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now

Jun 6, 2026 · 54m

From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology

Jun 3, 2026 · 58m

Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?

May 29, 2026 · 1h 6m

Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous

May 26, 2026 · 1h 30m

Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions

May 19, 2026 · 1h 1m

Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims

May 16, 2026 · 1h 15m

From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)

May 14, 2026 · 1h 17m

The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor

May 11, 2026 · 1h 19m

The UFO Files Were Declassified Today

May 8, 2026 · 31m

Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)

May 5, 2026 · 1h 4m

The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation

May 2, 2026 · 1h 38m

Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi

Apr 28, 2026 · 1h 11m

Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained

Apr 24, 2026 · 15m

Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.

Apr 21, 2026 · 1h 25m

Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms

Apr 18, 2026 · 1h 8m

What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline

Apr 14, 2026 · 58m

How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity

Apr 11, 2026 · 1h 31m

What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive

Apr 8, 2026 · 1h 27m

Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle

Apr 5, 2026 · 19m

Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z

Apr 3, 2026 · 1h 30m

The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion

Mar 31, 2026 · 1h 17m

Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman

Mar 28, 2026 · 1h 12m

Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West

Mar 24, 2026 · 1h 25m

The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy

Mar 17, 2026 · 1h 8m

DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits

Mar 14, 2026 · 1h 28m