Modes of Inquiry with Mathew Giagnorio

The season 3 finale welcomes Dr. Erec Smith, an associate professor of rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania to the podcast. We discuss the new discourse of Anti-Racism and its negative effects on…

This week on the podcast I'm joined by Tina Christensen, a Danish model, and actress. We discuss ageism in the film and modeling industries, how she came to embrace and love her silver hair, her appr…

This week welcomes Nicolò Scremin, founder and CEO of SecuritHub and founder of NextGen50. We discuss youth involvement and engagement in issues about security/national security/counterterrorism, wha…

This week welcomes Dr. Marilyn Simon, a Shakspeare scholar, university instructor, and writer to the podcast. We discuss beauty what is it? And why it's important, the vital energies of femininity an…

This week on the podcast is Dr. Iona Italia, editor-in-chief of Areo magazine. We discuss the role of Areo, the challenges and pressure encountered, calls for censorship, the importance of dialogue a…

This Thursday on the pod  I’m joined by Jonathan Kay, a Quillette editor, and writer. We discuss the challenges and changing the face of journalism, the importance of journalists and journalistic int…

This Thursday MOI welcomes Dalal Mawad to the pod. We discuss the style and structure of the body politic in Lebanon, how this affects the style of Lebanese journalism, its history and civil war, sec…

Season 3 welcomes Dr. Vian Aziz on the podcast. We discuss the importance of sexual education and its absence in Arab and Muslim majority countries, the difference between sex and sexuality, the subj…

Season 3 officially kicks off this Thursday with returning guest, Phil Gurski. As the first inquiry of the season, we discuss the recent attempted murder of Salman Rushdie and the historic series of …

In this pre-season special which will also act as S3E1, Daniel Sharp of Areo Magazine and I discuss the recent attack and attempted murder of Salman Rushdie and the importance and value of free speec…

For the season 2 final, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Anna Sergi, professor of criminology and organized #crime studies at the University of Essex, UK. We discussed Italian organized crime…

In the first of a two-part episode, I speak with India Donisi, creator and founder of Winespicegirl. We discuss wine and its richer, deep elements. The philosophical,  cultural and mythology (Dionysu…

For S2E16,  in the first of a two-part episode, I speak with Ahmed Patel. We discuss his early years growing up in the UK, in the 1970s and 1980s, the political and cultural changes that began in the…

For S2E15 I speak with Colin Wright. We discuss transgender issues, what is biological sex? Is gender fluid? The expression of individual human sexuality, the generational divide in perspectives in t…

For this episode, I speak with Kaveh Shahrooz. We discuss the Iranian diaspora, Persian culture, and the gangster regime of Iran as separate from and oppressive to the Iranian people. We also human r…

In episode 13 of season 2,  I speak with Prof. Feiner of Bar-Ilan University, Isreal. We discussed a range of important and not too well known or understand topics pertaining to the European Jewry an…

For S2E12, I speak with William Baldét in the first of a special two-part episode. We discuss the origin and development of the Prevent strategy UK, its focus and community impact, what methods it em…

In this episode, I speak with Terry Newman,  lecturer at McGill University and a contributing writer to Quillette. We discuss eclectic issues from Joe Rogan, policing speech, the importance of meanin…

This Thursday I speak with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. We discuss stoicism and its important role in a person's life, what is stoic philosophy? How do ancient teachings continue to be relevant for us to…