I really looked forward to the Portal series when it was announced but honestly, this episode just has the same issues I had with many of the ones before.

Constant meta talk about what is allowed to say and what not, Eric framing himself as a sort of outcast and renegade as if he's a north Korean dissident mostly because there's some schism within arcane academic or public intellectual circles and so on, and on occasion almost venturing into conspiracy territory.

It's good when he's talking to someone about issues leaving all the constant drama out, the episode with Tyler Cowen was quite good mostly because Tyler has a very good sense of shutting this stuff down and just focussing on interesting stuff.