19 January 2021
Human rights gone wrong
Robert Wright and Marissa Conway discuss how a feminist approach to foreign policy could help protect human rights without resorting to military force.
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How Obama enabled Trump
Glenn Loury and Daniel Bessner discuss how Obama’s missteps helped pave the way for Trump.
A MAGA scorned
Matt Lewis and Bill Scher discuss whether the Republican Party is better off banning Donald Trump from running for president again.
Arranged marriages for Millennials
Justin Murphy describes his new company that arranges marriages for Millennials and Zoomers.
How close are we to China-level censorship?
Robert Wright and Conor Friedersdorf discuss the unprecedented power that tech companies have over speech in the US.
Trump’s assault on Mike Pence
Robert Wright argues that Trump purposefully encouraged rioters in the Capitol to direct their ire toward his own vice president.
Quantum spookiness explained!
Science writer George Musser explains one of physics’ strangest concepts to John Horgan.
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How young is too young for movement conservatism?
Daniel Kaufman and Kevin Currie-Knight air their worries about the young intellectual Coleman Hughes’ career path.
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“I wasn’t anybody’s pet”
Glenn Loury talks about the pride he took in being a uniquely situated Black public intellectual in the 80s.
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Sex, death, and science
Nikita Petrov talks to John Horgan about his new book, Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science, which contextualizes big philosophical questions within the everyday thoughts of a science writer.
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Wrang-wranging the rioters
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus try to untangle what went on inside the Capitol on January 6.
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“We’re storming the Capitol, it’s a revolution!”
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and historian Bill Black discuss the possible mindsets of the MAGA insurrectionists.
The DMZ
How did conservatives go from Burke to Alinsky?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis explore how the right wing turned insurrectionist.
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Avoiding a eugenics arms race
Robert Wright and Jamie Metzl, author of Hacking Darwin, discuss the challenges that genetic engineering poses for the international community.
Culturally Determined
The case against “backlash”
