Podcast

First episode of the Sic Mundus podcast. Watch on YouTube → The first episode of Sic Mundus — a podcast about how the world works in its most interesting manifestations. The topic: artificial intelligence and religion. In 2026, almost everyone has heard of AI, but few people understand how it actually works — and even fewer have thought about how large language models are being integrated into religious life, and why this is a serious social trend rather than a curiosity. ...

Interview for the SPEECH podcast, Litres. Watch: YouTube In this conversation with the SPEECH podcast team, we worked through several questions I consider fundamental to understanding what religion is and what is happening to it today. Can Religion Even Be Defined? Since Friedrich Max Müller, religious studies has never arrived at a single universal definition. Substantive approaches grounded in belief in the “supernatural” frequently fail: in classical Theravada Buddhism or in archaic belief systems, the concept of the supernatural is blurred beyond usefulness. ...

Guest on the Pascal’s Wager podcast. On the nature of rationality, science, astrology, and how we form beliefs. Read the text → Watch In Russian →