12 July 2020
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The Harper’s cancel-culture letter
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the fallout from Harper’s Magazine’s open letter against cancel culture.
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In this video:
- Covid deaths are suddenly rising and a new school year approaches
- Is Trump’s reelection campaign doomed? (And is Steve Bannon part of it?)
- Mickey’s theory about BLM and the future of American cities
- Weighing the consequences of the Harper’s anti-cancel-culture letter
- Bob complains about American journalism (cont’d)
- Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? Discussing an underdiscussed candidate.
Are violence and war intrinsic to human nature?
Robert Wright speaks with Rutger Bregman, author of the new book Humankind: A Hopeful History.
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Plato’s wrestling ring
Robert Gressis speaks with Douglas Edwards, author of the new book Philosophy Smackdown, about the different layers of reality in professional wrestling.
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How should we remember the racists of American history?
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter consider Woodrow Wilson, Robert E. Lee, and John C. Calhoun.
Will the truth about Epstein ever come out?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus speculate on what could happen after Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest.
Woodrow Wilson’s complicated legacy
Bill Scher critiques the current conservation about Wilson and race.
The secret origin story of the Christian Right
Robert Wright speaks with Sarah Posner, author of the new book Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump, who argues that race was more important than abortion in bringing evangelicals into politics.
Why has the right lost the culture wars?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus consider.
Defining “death anxiety”
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Abigail Nathanson about her research on psychological views of death.
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Can faith help bind up the nation’s wounds?
Glenn Loury speaks with John Wood of Braver Angels, which seeks to combat political polarization.
Why some Russians think Putin doesn’t exist
Nikita Petrov explains the strange phenomenon to John Horgan.
Feminine Chaos
The life-changing magic of tidying up your whiteness
Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy speak with Leigh Stein, author of the new satirical novel Self Care, about anti-racism as self-improvement.
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Were the ideals of the founding false from the start?
Glenn Loury speaks with historian David Kaiser about the central claims of the 1619 Project.
The DMZ
Don’t dance on Trump’s grave just yet
