{"podcast":{"title":"Dangerous Intellectuals: The Podcast","slug":"dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000","podcast_index_feed_id":7526000,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://dangerousintellectuals.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/20251006_061005_d71530f37999c254095eee1a3434293a.jpg","author":"Brig Gen (ret) Blaine D. Holt","episode_count":52,"summary":"These men and women don’t just think outside the box… they never even acknowledged a box existed. These are the visionaries, the leaders who defy convention—razor-sharp minds in geopolitics, economics, technology, entrepreneurship, art, and science—driving debates that shatter illusions and forge new frontiers. Unafraid. Unfiltered. Unstoppable. They are… the Dangerous Intellectuals .","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T00:19:39.846299+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 49: War on Critical Thinking: John Leake on Mind Viruses & America’s Irrational Obsessions","slug":"episode-49-war-on-critical-thinking-john-leake-on-mind-viruses-america-s-irrational-obsessions","published_at":"2026-08-17T11:35:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000/episode-49-war-on-critical-thinking-john-leake-on-mind-viruses-america-s-irrational-obsessions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/3074168","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/350297/3074168/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/2026_08_17_11_34_39_5d7c4779-8985-4fbf-a178-2be6a434f6cc.mp3","summary":"America is under psychological assault. A series of manufactured crises — from COVID and climate hysteria to cancel culture and endless proxy wars — have been deliberately spread like mind viruses, eroding critical thinking and producing a toxic culture of fear, compliance, and controlled outrage. In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, John Leake, author of Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions and member of the McCullough Foundation, exposes how these campaigns were engineered and why they have proven so effective at reshaping the American mind. Leake traces the historical roots of this manipulation and confronts the harder question: how do free people break free from this deadly cycle before the damage becomes irreversible? If you want a clear-eyed diagnosis of the war being waged on independent thought — and a path out of it — download this episode now https://x.com/johnsearsleake https://a.co/d/02TmzzMI DI is now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@DangerousIntellectuals Duration: 1:21:00","meta_description":"America is under psychological assault. A series of manufactured crises — from COVID and climate hysteria to cancel culture and endless proxy wars — have…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4860,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000/episodes/episode-49-war-on-critical-thinking-john-leake-on-mind-viruses-america-s-irrational-obsessions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000/episode-49-war-on-critical-thinking-john-leake-on-mind-viruses-america-s-irrational-obsessions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}