21 June 2021
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Outlawing critical race theory
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss ways that Texas' controversial anti-CRT law could backfire.
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In this video:
- Biden’s good-enough Russia summit performance
- Bob: Michael McFaul is obsessed with aiding-and-abetting accusations
- Jeffrey Toobin returns, to Mickey’s dismay
- Is it National Biden-Harris Child Tax Credit Day already?
- Is Stacey Abrams ingeniously engineering the end of the filibuster?
- Did the FBI have a hand in provoking the January 6 riots?
- Some peculiar implications of the Texas anti-CRT law
- Bob responds to Mickey’s anal probe challenge
- Norm entrepreneurs
- Parrot Room preview: a mystery guest joins the conversation, Hunter Biden’s memoir, a Jill Biden-Kamala Harris rivalry, a Tom Wilson biopic, the unjustly unverified, Loury and McWhorter, and the Blinken-Biden schism
The crackdown in Russia
Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss how Alexey Navalny’s return to Russia and the Belarusian political crisis led to Russia’s most recent crackdown on political freedoms.
The failures of Hebrew School education
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Rabbi Ari Hart about Jewish religious instruction in America.
We come in peace
In a conversation with Mickey Kaus, Robert Wright argues that humans are in trouble if aliens don’t show up sooner or later.
In praise of Black humanity
Glenn Loury, Cornel West, and Teodros Kiros discuss the global cultural impact of Black Americans and the problems of internalized despair that they still confront.
Dissecting Darwin
Robert Wright and anthropologist Agustín Fuentes, author of a controversial article on The Descent of Man, try to unpack Darwin’s attitudes on race and genocide.
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Tea Party 2.0?
In a conversation with Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus makes the case for an anti-woke Tea Party.
China’s war on terror
In a conversation with Robert Wright, historian David Brophy explains how China justifies its repression of the Uyghurs as part of the international fight against terrorism.
“The Language of Privilege”
Nicholas Clairmont discusses his recent essay applying class analysis to “woke” language.
The Glenn Show
The Tucker Carlson experience
Glenn Loury discusses his recent appearance on Tucker Carlson Today.
Culturally Determined
The gothic and the sentimental in recent American history
Book critic Christian Lorentzen discusses his recent essay using literary analysis to understand the Trump and Biden eras.
The DMZ
What is it about Kamala?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss why Vice President Kamala Harris seems to attract an outsized amount of attention and criticism.
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Is “information” the key to quantum mechanics?
John Horgan and science writer Philip Ball discuss the roles of consciousness and calculation in quantum mechanics.
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Why is Trump so bad at blogging?
Matt Lewis and Bill Scher explore the meaning behind Trump’s blog bust.
The Wright Show
Trump’s rigged election
