27 May 2022
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Is the Bush dynasty truly over?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis ask whether George P. Bush's loss in the Texas attorney general race marks the end of a very long era in American politics.
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Social science and the replication crisis
In this 2015 conversation, Glenn Loury and Daniel Kaufman discuss the replication crisis in psychology and its consequences for the social sciences more broadly.
Was it something he said?
Matt K. Lewis explains to Bill Scher why, out of all of the fringe members of the GOP, leadership pulled their support from Madison Cawthorn.
The rival technological visions of the US and China
Robert Wright and Ian Bremmer discuss a theme in Bremmer’s new book The Power of Crisis.
An “Ultra-MAGA” spoiler in PA
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss how Kathy Barnette’s surging poll numbers are complicating the Pennsylvania GOP senate primary.
Are Dems ignoring rural voters?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis debate whether Barack Obama is responsible for Democrats losing ground in states like Nebraska.
Arming Ukraine
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the impact of new weapons on the course of the war.
The politics of overturning Roe
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether Republicans will accept judicial victory gracefully or take things too far.
What if the physical isn’t physical?
In conversation with Robert Wright, philosopher Bernardo Kastrup explains how to make sense of the (seemingly) material world under a consciousness-only model of reality.
The Wright Show
To defeat authoritarians, build democratic communities
Robert Wright and historian Suzanne Schneider, author of The Apocalypse and the End of History, discuss how the West can counter authoritarians at home and abroad.
The Wright Show
The dangerous rhetoric of “replacement”
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss Tucker Carlson’s promotion of replacement theory and that theory’s role in the recent mass shooting in Buffalo.
The Glenn Show
The Roe v. Wade leak
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter debate whether the ends now justify the means in American politics.
The Wright Show
Why does Putin see Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan revolution as a US-backed coup?
Robert Wright and former US diplomat Susan Thornton discuss the optics.
The Glenn Show
Whither left populism?
Glenn Loury and Briahna Joy Gray discuss the reasons behind the Democratic Party’s resistance to progressivism and left populism.
The Wright Show
Breaking up with Twitter is hard to do
