What if Tim Conroy and literature’s most restless young voices confronted the shame behind growing up? Some conversations don’t begin with answers. They begin with discomfort. Five young men meet in a quiet Chicago diner—each carrying a different kind of wound. Tim Conroy brings confusion shaped by faith and failure.Holden Caulfield … [Read more...] about The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God Explained
Religion
World Peace Through God: One Human Family
What if knowing God truly could end the idea of enemies forever? Introduction by Nick Sasaki What if the world’s greatest problem is not the absence of religion, but the absence of truly knowing God? Humanity has never lacked words about God. We have scriptures, prayers, traditions, and teachings across every culture. We also have songs—like We Are … [Read more...] about World Peace Through God: One Human Family
Faith, Trump, and Tucker Carlson: Can Belief and Politics Coexist?
What if Tucker Carlson and top thinkers confronted whether faith has been quietly replaced by political loyalty? What happens when faith, politics, and human conscience collide? This conversation began with a simple observation: people do not just argue about policies anymore. They argue about meaning, identity, loyalty, and even God. A political … [Read more...] about Faith, Trump, and Tucker Carlson: Can Belief and Politics Coexist?
Trump and Pope Leo on Power, Peace, and Christian Politics
What if Trump and top Christian voices confronted Pope Leo on whether strength can protect a nation without hardening its soul? There are some conversations that begin with policy, and there are others that begin with something much deeper than policy. This is one of those.When I first imagined Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV facing each other, I was drawn to … [Read more...] about Trump and Pope Leo on Power, Peace, and Christian Politics
Chris Bledsoe and the Hidden Contact Phenomenon
What if UFO encounters were never just about aliens—but something shaping human belief itself? Introduction by Nick Sasaki Welcome, everyone.Tonight’s conversation begins with a mystery that has followed humanity for far longer than most people are willing to admit.Across generations, across religions, across visions, across encounters in lonely fields … [Read more...] about Chris Bledsoe and the Hidden Contact Phenomenon
Why JD Vance Says UFOs Are Demons
What if JD Vance looked at a UFO and saw Satan with better lighting? Introduction by Conan O’BrienLet me start with a confession.When I first heard that the Vice President of the United States said UFOs might be demons, I thought, “Finally… something in politics I’m qualified to talk about.”Not policy. Not economics. Demons.Because once you cross that … [Read more...] about Why JD Vance Says UFOs Are Demons
S. Y. Agnon in 2026: An Imagined Novel of Belonging
Introduction by S. Y. Agnon What if S. Y. Agnon were alive in 2026 and wrote a novel about Israel now? A man leaves one land and comes to another, and he says of himself that he has arrived. Yet arrival is a word that speaks too quickly.For what is it to arrive in a land? Is it enough that the ship has docked, that the train has stopped, that the … [Read more...] about S. Y. Agnon in 2026: An Imagined Novel of Belonging
Saint Patrick Play: The Slave Who Came Back
What if the man taken as a slave returned to the land of his suffering with forgiveness instead of revenge? Introduction by PatrickI was not born in Ireland. I did not go there by choice.I was taken.What began in terror became the road by which my soul was stripped bare. I lost home, comfort, youth, and every false confidence I had carried without knowing … [Read more...] about Saint Patrick Play: The Slave Who Came Back
What Really Happens After Death?
What if death is not the end we think it is? Introduction by Nick Sasaki Welcome, everyone.Tonight we are taking up one of the oldest and most personal questions a human being can ask: what really happens after death? Not as a slogan, not as a creed repeated on command, and not as a cold argument cut off from human pain. We are here to listen … [Read more...] about What Really Happens After Death?
Multipolar World, Proxy Wars & Sacred Conflict
What if the biggest risk of war today isn’t weapons—but stories? Lex Fridman: Today I want to explore something that’s difficult to talk about clearly—because it lives at the intersection of hard power and human meaning.We often describe global conflict in terms of strategy: alliances, deterrence, weapons, geography, economics. Those things matter. They … [Read more...] about Multipolar World, Proxy Wars & Sacred Conflict