27 September 2022
The Russia-Ukraine paradox
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether Ukraine’s military progress makes Putin more likely to usher in catastrophe.
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In this video:
- Putin’s big speech: nothingburger, nuclear nightmare, or something in between?
- Why an escalating Ukraine war is so easy to envision
- All the ways DeSantis is Trump 2.0
- Biden cools it on the anti-MAGA rhetoric
- Italy’s MAGA-like party heats up
- Crunching the midterm election numbers
- What’s wrong with Biden committing to defend Taiwan against China?
- Parrot Room preview: GOP’s new Contract for America; What is national conservatism?; reviewing Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless; Trump’s spoon-bending powers; does AI have cognitive empathy?
Fifty shades of US-China relations
Sebastian Strangio, author of In the Dragon’s Shadow, explains why Sino-American relations look “grayer” when viewed from Southeast Asia.
Putin’s predicament
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the political and military pressures faced by the Russian leader.
What’s Lindsey Graham thinking?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis question the wisdom of the Republican Senator’s introduction of a 15-week abortion ban bill.
What is “social capital”?
Glenn Loury and economist Larry Kotlikoff discuss Glenn’s concept of “social capital” and how social inequality perpetuates itself.
Is Oz unfairly fettered?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether John Fetterman’s health is a legitimate concern for voters and whether Dr. Mehmet Oz risks backlash for questioning it.
Did Biden blow it?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the president’s “Soul of the Nation” speech.
Republicans in disarray?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis assess the current state of the GOP, with an eye toward the November midterms.
Polarized America
Glenn Loury and Steve McIntosh, president, co-founder, and director of the Institute for Cultural Evolution, discuss the US’s ongoing political fragmentation.
The DMZ
Where’s the GOP’s “Team Normal”?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether non-Trumpist Republicans are normalizing election denying.
The Glenn Show
Is marriage important?
Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Rowe, founder and CEO of Vertex Enterprise Academies, debate the meaning and significance of marriage.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Rules for thee but not for me?
Robert Wright and New York Times columnist Bret Stephens debate whether the US applies higher standards to China and Russia than to itself.
The Glenn Show
John vs. Ibram X. Kendi on Twitter
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss John’s contentious online exchange with the Boston University professor and racial justice advocate.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
How common are dramatic spiritual experiences?
Psychologist David B. Yaden—co-author of the new book The Varieties of Spiritual Experience—discusses the data with Robert Wright.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Should the Dems dump Biden?
