Reasoning with Riley Moore

Jay is a film maker who directed Islam and the Future of Tolerance with the best selling authors Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. Jay currently hosts the Dilemma Podcast which handles ethical problems. Season 2 has hosted guests such as Susan Blackmore, Mike Selinker, Jon Wertheim, and Chloe Valdary.Find Jay on Twitter @jay_shaprio and his website: whatjaythinks.com

Matt's essays brought up during the conversation are linked below:George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the ‘Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life’What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from OrwellOrwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of TrumpThe title of this podcast is the same as essayist Christopher Hitchens' book Why Orwell MattersOther books mentioned during this podcast:George Packer's compilation of Orwell's essays: All Art is Propaganda and Facing Unpleasant FactsDJ Taylor's Orwell: The LifeOrwell's Animal Farm, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Riley Moore speaks with writer and philosopher Jay Shapiro on topics ranging from the problem of omniscience, the religious response to COVID-19, and how to shame people into their masks. Jay is a film maker who directed Islam and the Future of Tolerance with the best selling authors Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. Jay currently hosts the Dilemma Podcast with writer Coleman Hughes which handles ethical problems. Season 2 of dilemma has recently started with guests Francesca Minerva and Emily Thomas. Visit "whatjaythinks.com" to read the pieces mentioned in this podcast: Live Free and Kill Grandma and Atheism and a Life worth Imitating. Visit Jay's medium page "medium.com/@jayshapiro2000" to read: Utilitarianism is not a Moral Philosophy.

In this episode Riley Moore speaks with Matt Johnson about the problem of political generalizations, the pros and cons of utilitarianism, and the current climate surrounding public apologies. Matt is a contributor at Quillette, Areo Magazine, and the Medium publication Arc Digital. He also writes for The Bulwark and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.Matt's columns referenced in the episode are listed here: Matt Taibbi and the Fight Over Free Speech on the Left, Is Social Justice Really a Religion, What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from Orwell, Candace Owens is Dangerously Misinformed about Vaccines, Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump

A brief introduction of myself and the direction I plan to take this podcast in.