24 September 2018
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Is Alex Jones a free speech martyr?
Robert Wright and David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression, discuss the conspiracy theorist’s banishment by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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In this video:
- Was Alex Jones kicked off social media unfairly?
- Are social media platforms biased against conservatives?
- Algorithms built to play on our intense emotions
- How Facebook catalyzed atrocities in Myanmar
- Could international human rights law help save the Internet?
- Do we need local social media councils?
- Why Europe is leading the way in online regulation
“We should just cut each other some slack”
John Horgan explains how writing his new free e-book, Mind-Body Problems, made him embrace some wacky theories of consciousness.
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Did Obama fail black America?
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter consider.
Redemption essays by #MeToo men
Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield analyze whether the recent personal essays by Jian Ghomeshi and John Hockenberry should have been published.
Is Trump scary or pathetic?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus debate whether creeping authoritarianism is a real danger.
Market solutions to inequality
Economist Robin Hanson and social scientist Simon DeDeo debate the social and economic causes of the gender pay gap.
Being a fiction writer with a full-time job
Glenn Loury speaks with his son Glenn Loury II, a speculative fiction author.
Is Twitter a public utility?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis debate whether the “deplatforming” of figures like Alex Jones from social media is a matter of free speech.
What explains Trump’s foreign policy?
Robert Wright and Ian Bremmer, author of the new book Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, consider the question.
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What does #MeToo reveal about the Catholic Church?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Christopher White, national correspondent for the Catholic news site Crux, revisit the 2002 Church sex abuse scandal in light of the #MeToo movement.
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Affluenza at Georgetown Prep
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss why some conservative women are reluctant to dismiss the claims made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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“I did not find the book to be surprising or shocking”
National security reporter Marc Ambinder critiques Bob Woodward’s new book on the Trump administration.
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The politics of hurricanes
As Hurricane Florence nears the coast, Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the political effect of massive storms.
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Can free will exist in a deterministic universe?
Robert Wright and philosopher Gregg Caruso wrestle with the slippery notion of “compatibilism.”
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Is Trump’s tax reform secretly progressive?
