17 October 2021
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Is Trump a rational actor?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus ask whether Trump’s threat to undermine Republicans in the midterms is a calculated move or just a bid for attention
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- Trump finally crosses the line for Mickey (again)
- Why is Trump threatening to undermine Republicans in the midterms?
- Mickey: It’s smart politics to dump the child tax credit
- Are some of Dave Chappelle’s jokes antisemitic?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s less-than-flattering appraisal of Colin Kaepernick
- Is Steve Bannon going to jail?
- Bob: “The jury is out” on the possibility of democracy in China
- Parrot Room preview: Supply chains, Michael Wolff’s account of Jeffrey Epstein’s theory of Trump, Walgreens closes stores over crime, Nick Kristof’s possible gubernatorial run, more evidence of Ben Rhodes’s blobishness, David Shor, Terry McAuliffe’s chances in Virginia, a roadblock to Mickey’s coup theory, the new Velvet Underground doc, Steven Pinker and the left, a genitalia joke face-off, Facebook’s thought policing, and help for boomers
Is journalistic neutrality obsolete?
Robert Wright and Aryeh Cohen-Wade debate whether the ideal of objectivity in reporting is a concept whose time has passed.
The Bard of Twitter
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with the anonymous person who tweets as William Shakespeare.
Is Biden fostering a MAGA resurgence?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether Biden’s falling popularity will galvanize a 2024 Trump run.
The truth about redlining
Glenn Loury and historian David E. Kaiser discuss the history of redlining and black wealth accumulation after World War II.
Russian Cosmism
Nikita Petrov and John Horgan discuss Russian philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov, who claimed that immortality can be reached through science, but we will only deserve it if we resurrect all previous generations.
Debunking the myth of Rommel
Gershom Gorenberg, author of the new book War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, explains why the Nazi general was neither a military genius nor a “good German.”
The road not taken for Obama
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter debate Barack Obama’s presidential track record on race.
What happened to Glenn Greenwald?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the controversial journalist’s appearances on Fox News and his support for some parts of Trump’s agenda.
The Glenn Show
Behind the New York Times “megaphone”
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss how John is perceived now that he writes for the Times.
The DMZ
Is Dave Chappelle serious?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis debate whether Chappelle should be held responsible for the political content in his latest stand-up special.
The DMZ
The corrosive influence of low-dollar donors
Matt K. Lewis argues that politicians who rely primarily on small donations tend to be more hardline and partisan than those with big donors.
The Wright Show
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib
Robert Wright and historian Samuel Moyn, author of the new book Humane, discuss how the reaction of activists to wartime atrocities has changed.
The Wright Show
Replacement in theory and practice
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether, and in what sense, workers wary of being displaced by immigrant labor should feel threatened by “replacement”.
The Wright Show
The grievance-based world of the Weinsteins
