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Recorded:Jul 13    Posted:Jul 16, 2011
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Science Saturday | Jul 16, 2011 | Daniel Drezner & Daniel H. Wilson

The DMZ

The right’s delusion about the left’s weakness

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Bill Scher and Matt Lewis on the conservative belief that all the GOP needed was a candidate strong enough to fight. Plus: Evan McMullin, Trump slayer?

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Parenting artificial intelligence

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Kevin Kelly, author of The Inevitable, argues that articulating our ethics is more challenging than embedding them in AI.

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The Glenn Show

Trump’s military fixation

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Political scientist Steven Teles dissects Trump’s vision of a larger yet less engaged military. PlusRepublicans without a party.

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Sin as a stain

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Ben Perry and Joseph Lam on the staying power of biblical meta­phors. Plus: How metaphors shape discourse on slavery and sex.

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The Wright Show

The loopholes Trump loves

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Richard Vague, author of The Next Economic Disaster, on how the real estate business runs on debt and financial creativity.

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Can a “not-self” be guilty as charged?

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Robert Wright and Jonathan Gold, author of Paving the Great Way, discuss whether the Buddhist view of causality leaves space for moral agency. Plus: How real is real?

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The Glenn Show

Is fighting implicit bias possible?

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Glenn Loury and Mark Kleiman on what police reform should look like. Plus: What Trump gets wrong about stop-and-frisk.

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Why are millennials so idealistic?

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Baby boomer Robert Wright and Dan Kaufman of Gen X discuss why different generations have different values.

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Foreign Entanglements

Carrying Obama’s foreign policy mantle

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Former ambassador Carey Cavanaugh and political scientist Max Abrahms debate whether Trump’s or Hillary’s views are closer to the president’s. Plus: Would Trump’s foreign policy be worse than Hillary’s?

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Does philosophy need religion?

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Wesley Wildman argues that theology offers unique insights into the nature of being. Plus: Loving your enemy isn’t enough.

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