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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Heather Lynn Mac Donald: A Classic Modern University (#067)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Heather Lynn Mac Donald is an American conservative political commentator, essayist, and attorney. She is a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of the institute’s City Journal. She has written numerous editorials and is the author of several books. Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:07.0

Welcome everybody to this addition of the Into the Impossible

0:14.7

Podcast. I am your host Brian Keating, professor of physics at

0:19.3

UC San Diego and UC San Diego features rather prominently in the book by my current guest Heather

0:27.0

McDonald.

0:28.0

I'm going to read your bio.

0:30.4

Heather McDonald is the best-selling author of the Warren Copp's, the Thomas W Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute,

0:37.0

and a contributing editor of City Journal.

0:39.0

She holds a BA from Yale University and an MA from Cambridge in English and J.D. from

0:44.5

Stanford. Her writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The

0:47.8

Washington Post, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Partisan Review,

0:52.2

among others.

0:53.9

And she lives in New York.

0:55.1

She's visiting San Diego.

0:56.6

And we are distant as we are having this conversation

1:00.4

in San Diego.

1:01.6

And it's a pleasure to have you here. Thank you so much.

1:04.0

Right, it's an honor to be on the podcast with you at one last.

1:07.0

It's so interesting. It's so great to have you here.

1:10.0

So I've been, you know, obviously consuming your content for so long.

1:14.1

I really love it on many different levels and I love the way that you think and we don't

1:19.0

always agree on everything as nobody does, that's we always say me the only person you agree with is

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