Uncomfortable Conversations Creators & Guests

Josh Szeps, previously known as Josh Zepps, is an Australian media personality, political satirist, and television presenter. He currently hosts Weekend Breakfast on ABC News and We The People LIVE Podcast.

Shadi Hamid is an author, senior fellow in Brookings Institution, and contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Malcolm Turnbull is a retired politician who was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.

Mark Humphries is a TV personality and comedian.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an activist, feminist, author, scholar, and former politician.

Yascha Mounk is a political scientist.

Nick Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney and a co-director of the Sydney Centre for Language Research. He is a member of the Fighting Truth Decay research node at the Charles Perkins Centre. His research on language, culture, cognition and social life is based on long term field work in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. His recent books include Language vs. Reality, Consequences of Language, and How We Talk. Nick has published widely in linguistics, anthropology, and cognitive science venues, and has written for the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, and Science. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Royal Society of New South Wales, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Claire Lehmann is a journalist.

Todd Sampson is an award-winning documentary-maker and television presenter.

David Roth is an editor at Deadspin, and host of Deadcast.

Clementine is the best selling author of “Fight Like A Girl.” She is a broadcaster, speaker, and local ratbag living in Melbourne, Australia.

Jamie Woodhouse works on developing and building global community around the Sentientism worldview: "Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a combination of naturalism (so non-supernatural) and granting moral consideration to all beings capable of experiencing suffering. So far, that's human and non-human animals.

Paul Bloom is a psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

Mychal Denzel Smith is a writer, television commentator, and author of the book Stakes Is High.

Alice Dreger is a historian, bioethicist, author, and former Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

Helen Lewis is a journalist, former deputy editor of the New Statesman, writer, and author of the book Difficult Women.

Yasmine Mohammed is an ExMuslim activist and author of Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam.

Corinne Fisher is a stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and director.