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Discourse Lab is a podcast dedicated to tackling difficult topics with curiosity and care.

Joined June 2025
Ambiguity and uncertainty are built into Iran's hijab laws intentionally. The point is to make women constantly afraid, so they fall in line. #womanlifefreedom♥️🇮🇷✊🏻 #fear #iran #feminism #podcast
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New episode with Yasmin Pacella out now!  Tune in to hear Yasmin's journey from Tehran's theater scene, to getting a PhD at The University of Miami, to working on her own neo-noir short film.  #iran #womanlifefreedom♥️🇮🇷✊🏻 #acting  #art  #podcast
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How can America develop a healthier sexual culture? Do you think Nikos is on the right track? #relationships #depravity #abstinence #podcast #hookupculture
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"A lot of very left-leaning young women date very right-wing guys. I think its that... confidence and that conviction in their beliefs that makes a man masculine and attractive." #conservative #liberal #dating #masculinity #podcast
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My take on the backlash to @NikosMohammadi’s recent @Sundial_CU article in @reason
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"There's an inherent contradiction at the heart of American liberalism as practiced in the open decades of the 21st century."  #liberalism #feminism #podcast #libertine #sexuality
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Does our culture encourage young women to interpret unpleasant consensual sexual experiences as something much darker? Does trauma always equal victimhood? What do YOU think? #regret #women #trauma #victimhood #podcast
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New episode with Nikos Mohammadi & Christina Ma out now! We discuss their recent article on the Cornell 7, the intense backlash they faced, and how they were betrayed by an organization ostensibly dedicated to open discourse.
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“We cannot let mob rule dictate what gets printed. And we will keep asking our critics to do what they have so far declined to do: write.” ✍️ @shoshanaaufzien (Link in comments)
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Generally speaking, zero-sum logic does not apply to the American economy. Wealth is not a finite resource. You can bake more pies! #zerosum #economics #AOC #billionaires #podcast
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