24 July 2021
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Are we stuck with Covid?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the possibility that Covid vaccines will become a permanent part of life.
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In this video:
- Bob and Mickey enter the Cone of Silence
- Mickey: The narrative about vaccination has collapsed
- Should Bob worry about Eric Weinstein’s latest weird tweet?
- Are we stuck with Covid forever?
- Mickey: If Americans start to see work as optional, migrants will replace them
- The Child Tax Credit’s surprisingly bad polling
- Appraising the Cleveland baseball team’s new name
- A new Gallup opinion poll has some bad news about race relations
- Mickey doesn’t buy Bob’s take on the Pegasus spyware expose
- The inquiries and (alleged) conspiracies of January 6
- Why blame Tom Barrack when you could blame Jared?
- Biden screws Ukraine over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
- Parrot Room preview: What bad buses in Philly teach us about government overreach, the California recall, Jeffrey Goldberg in hot water, Nick Kristof eyes a run for office, Sean Hannity’s bowel problems—and ours, Eric Weinstein’s tweet, game theory among ethnic elites, and the January 6 prosecutions
“In this Ohio diner…”
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with DougJ, who runs the parody Twitter account New York Times Pitchbot, about a lazy trope of reporting on Middle America.
Law and Order: Global Edition
Robert Wright and Eli Lake debate whether autocracies violate international rules and norms more than democracies.
Empire state of mind
International relations scholars John Ikenberry and Patrick Porter debate whether America is an empire.
Defining CRT
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss the rhetoric and politics of the critical race theory debate.
Who is the main aggressor in the culture war?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss a spate of recent pieces suggesting that the left, more than the right, has escalated the culture war.
The absurd exercise of ranking presidential greatness
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and historian Daniel Bessner critique C-SPAN’s recent ranking of the best and worst American presidents.
The anti-CRT panopticon
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss Tucker Carlson’s suggestion that teachers be monitored by camera to keep classrooms free of critical race theory.
The Glenn Show
Pushing back against “disinformation”
Glenn Loury and Richard Epstein discuss critical race theory and the legal history of racial redress in the US.
Psychopolitica
Is Putin a mystic?
Following the revelation that Putin owns a float tank, Nikita Petrov and John Horgan speculate that he may be the Übermensch.
The Wright Show
Why are we sanctioning Cuba (or anyone)?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus debate US foreign policy.
Talkin’ bout a revolution (in US foreign policy)
Stephen Wertheim of the Carnegie Endowment and Thomas Wright of the Brookings Institution debate whether the US should fundamentally reevaluate its military engagement abroad.
The Wright Show
Is there anything to Eric Weinstein’s theory of everything?
Mathematician Timothy Nguyen, in conversation with Robert Wright, critiques Weinstein’s grand theory of physics.
The Glenn Show
Is African American culture “non-Western”?
