25 September 2021
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Fighting for infrastructure
With infrastructure week actually approaching, Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the political incentives facing members of Congress.
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In this video:
- Pelosi preps for infrastructure vote with trouble all around
- The cost of zero sum politics: the wrath of the voters
- Throwing Biden into the ash heap of history
- What do Manchin & Sinema really want?
- Is Mickey feeling schadenfreude over Biden’s Haitian immigrant debacle?
- Bob worries that Biden seems vibrant enough to run for re-election
- Is America heading toward a cold war with China?
- What Bob Woodward’s version of the Mark Milley story missed
- Mickey no longer sure Rocking the Casbah in Saudi was a good idea
- Mickey vs Bob on Ezra Klein’s supply-side progressivism column
- Quick covid update
- Hunter Biden in the Parrot Room
The existential stakes of enlightenment
Robert Wright and Josh Summers discuss how mindfulness can help humankind overcome potentially disastrous cognitive biases.
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NFTs and the question of authentication
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and critic Sophie Haigney discuss the connection between digital art and signed baseballs.
Will the Biden budget “transform” America?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus debate whether Biden’s claims about his budget are lies or ordinary political hyperbole.
The spiritual challenges of climate change
Glenn Loury and historian Daniel Bessner discuss the possibility that combating climate change will require rethinking what it means to live a meaningful life.
James Lindsay climbs aboard the Trump train
David Ottlinger and journalist Cathy Young discuss the controversial anti-woke crusader’s support for Donald Trump.
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A midpoint in the cultural battle of kids vs. parents
Aryeh Cohen-Wade talks with Katie Baker about her recent essay on early ’90s Nickelodeon and how children’s entertainment has changed since then.
Rocks and race at the University of Wisconsin
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss how the University of Wisconsin should have handled recent campus protests.
Looking back at 9/11
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss what they’ve learned about American politics since the 9/11 attacks.
The Glenn Show
Overcoming tribalism
Glenn Loury and Robert Wright discuss the necessity and difficulty of tamping down tribalistic behavior and thought.
The DMZ
Oh what a feeling, when you’re voting on the debt ceiling
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the possibility that we’re headed for another government shutdown.
The DMZ
The legacy of Norm MacDonald
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the late comic’s work and career.
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Crime and Punishment and Determinism
Robert Wright and journalist Oliver Burkeman ask whether a commitment to determinism would require us to rethink our approach to criminal justice.
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Did the Global War on Terrorism backfire?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether the wars that followed 9/11 fueled homegrown terrorism.
Culturally Determined
A counternarrative on online disinformation
