In this episode, I sit down with Harper’s Magazine Editor Christopher Beha to explore why neither scientific materialism nor romantic idealism fully satisfies — and what a third path might look like. We ask questions like:

• Does materialism account for consciousness?

• Is hard determinism therapeutically dangerous?

• Can we rationally care about others?

• What breaks down in "radical authenticity"?

In the Patron-only second half, we land on skeptical belief itself — and why love might be the best epistemology we have.

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