28 March 2023
It’s not just about the tests
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss the existential challenge posed by racial disparities in test scores.
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In this video:
- John’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher
- The rigors of the lecture circuit
- The difference between equity and equality
- How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else?
- The new black bourgeoisie
- Standards in the arts are relative. But how relative?
- John sets the record straight on his dancing skills
To bail out or not to bail out?
Robert Wright and banking expert Richard Vague discuss the costs and benefits of the government’s decision to intervene in the Silicon Valley Bank crisis.
Debating DeSantis
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the Florida governor’s framing of the Ukraine War as a “territorial dispute”.
Ron DeSantis’s Ukraine Bet
On this week’s DMZ, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the SVB bank crisis—is “wokeness” to blame? Plus: Should DeSantis copy Trump’s “America First” approach to Ukraine? And will we miss Mitch McConnell when he’s gone?
Biden insults Xi Jinping, Xi rebukes America
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss escalating US-China tensions.
Fiery But Mostly Peaceful
On this week’s DMZ, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis ask: What happened to Tucker Carlson? Plus: Scott Adams’ explanation/excuse; Is Trump back on top in the GOP primary?; Could Fox News lose Trumpists?; And did Biden do the right thing on the DC crime bill?
All sticks, no carrots
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the Biden administration’s approach to foreign policy.
Ending 300,000 years of human stagnation
Glenn Loury and economist Oded Galor discuss humanity’s ancient cycle of economic stagnation and how we escaped it.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
The dangerous politics of indicting Trump
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the issue.
The DMZ
Can “Florida Man” Win?
On this week’s DMZ, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis ask: Can DeSantis take Trump’s attacks? Plus: Are people moving to Florida to escape “wokeness”? Will an indictment hurt or help Trump? And did the 1980 “October Surprise” change the course of history?
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Reckoning with the atomic bomb
Robert Wright and Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of The Man from the Future, discuss how John von Neumann handled the ethical questions arising from his work on the Manhattan project.
The Glenn Show
The Scott Adams controversy
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’s remarks about black people.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Psychoanalyzing ChatGPT
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom—author of the new book Psych—discuss current artificial intelligence programs and how they compare to the human mind.
The DMZ
Blinky, The Three-Eyed Fish
