21 March 2023
Debating DeSantis
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the Florida governor’s framing of the Ukraine War as a “territorial dispute”.
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In this video:
- Mickey’s mind-bending analogy between romance and politics
- Bob triggered by DeSantis’s “territorial dispute” line about Russia-Ukraine
- How to prevent the next bank collapse?
- Was “wokeness” behind SVB’s demise?
- Ukraine war update
- Are Democrats ditching Israel?
- Winners and losers of Iran-Saudi détente
- Parrot room preview: Mickey’s quibble with Bob’s AI piece; SBF news; Silicon Valley’s campaign to ban TikTok; the sad state of the Metaverse; RIP Jim Gordon; Summer of Soul; Is DeSantis too wine-track? Too beer-track? Who cares?; New segment: Brushes with Greatness
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.
Biden insults Xi Jinping, Xi rebukes America
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss escalating US-China tensions.
The Scott Adams controversy
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’s remarks about black people.
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.
Blinky, The Three-Eyed Fish
On this week’s DMZ, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the East Palestine situation—has it derailed Biden… and Buttigieg? Plus: Trump vs. DeSantis vs. who else? And has CPAC lost its cachet?
When anti-racism comes for anti-racists
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter talk with Villanova Professor Vincent Lloyd about his experience with a seminar gone awry.
Is the US provoking a cold war with China?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the issue.
The DMZ
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?
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 Glenn Show
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)
China, an AI superpower
Paul Scharre and Robert Wright discuss international competition in the age of smart machines.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
What would Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones ask Coleman Hughes?
