14 August 2018
A counternarrative on microaggressions
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter consider the effects of minor racial insults.
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In this video:
- Revisiting the “Starbucks and swimming pool” problem
- A new soft bigotry of low expectations?
- Glenn: Some so-called microaggressions are in fact justified
- John: When I’m microagressed against, I feel superior
- The Nation magazine’s racially controversial poem
- John calls Jordan Peterson “kind of sinister”
- The experience of being the only black person at a conference
What ’90s kids did and didn’t learn about sex
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Eve Fairbanks, author of a recent essay on how the 1990s shaped #MeToo, discuss the messages they were taught growing up about sex.
Liberal Islamism?
New York Times correspondent David Kirkpatrick, author of the new book Into the Hands of the Soldiers, describes the diversity of Islamist thought seen during and after the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Trickle-down metaphysics
Gary Lachman, author of Dark Star Rising, says Nietzsche predicted the post-truth reality that made Trump’s presidency possible.
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The real story of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Journalist Ben Blum discusses new findings that raise big doubts about one of the most famous studies in the history of psychology.
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Does Trump want to be a one-term president?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis weigh the evidence.
Vietnam as a cause of right-wing extremism
Historian Kathleen Belew discusses her new book about the origins of the modern white power movement, Bring the War Home.
Dissenting from the racial orthodoxy at Columbia
Coleman Hughes, an undergraduate at Columbia University, describes what it’s like to disagree with the prevailing opinion on race at his school.
Is Iran a threat to the US?
Robert Wright and Eli Lake debate.
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The weirdest thing in physics
Robert Wright and philosopher Tim Maudlin discuss quantum non-locality.
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Yielding to belief
Stephen Asma, author of the new book Why We Need Religion, says the positive effects of religion in one’s life are more important than verifying its eternal truths.
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Is DSA the Tea Party of 2018?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and James Martin Cole, secretary of the Austin chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, compare the two political movements.
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Is corporate diversity a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Philosophers Dan Kaufman and Brian Leiter discuss the capitalist motivations behind diversity initiatives in business and academia.
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Is Jordan Peterson peddling bunkum?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Katie Herzog, who recently wrote about a Peterson show she attended in Seattle, consider.
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Presidential confidence
