In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss a range of topics from the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, giving the power to ban abortion back to the states, to the discovery of intentional burials and abstract geometric art associated with the distant cousin species hominoladi, which challenges the traditional understanding of human evolution. They also explore the pro-choice and pro-life movements, with a focus on the increase in the percentage of Americans who want third trimester abortions to be legal and the division within the pro-life movement between incrementalists and younger, more absolutist advocates. Finally, the hosts pay tribute to Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to expose the truth about the Vietnam War and became a campaigner against all wars, believing in the importance of truth and right versus wrong.

In the months since America’s Supreme Court gave states the power to ban abortions, those in support of the ruling have become more splintered. And with the help of leftist language, they are finding new recruits. A new discovery about the intelligence of a human-like species is changing how we understand evolution. And, a tribute to the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

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