In this episode of Quill or Be Quilled, Greg talks with Ali Rizvi, author of The Atheist Muslim, about Soundgarden for a solid ten minutes before moving on to cultural flashpoints like Muslim identity, bigotry from the Left and Right, terrorism, and free speech.

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Ali Rizvi

WORDHAMMER episodes of Quill or Be Quilled take us deep into the wilderness of language, into a tavern where words are unmade. In this episode, our host examines the word "dumb" and its deterministic implications, as well as "cretin," "moron," and crucially, "retard." What can "dumb" tell us about free will?

WORDHAMMER: Dumb

In this episode of Quill or Be Quilled, Greg talks with Sir John Hargrave about loathing self-help as a genre, rewiring your brain, loathing trucks, Honda's five whys, and loathing other stuff.

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WORDHAMMER: Dumb

Sir John Hargrave