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Oct 7, 2022 —
DEI in the Orchestral World (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Don Baton)
The Glenn Show
- Is Florence Price’s music worthy of its current popularity?
- The decline of blind auditions
- Do diverse orchestras attract diverse audiences and musicians?
- Why Don is protecting his real identity
- Glenn delivers a soliloquy on humanity
- John: Eliminating blind auditions is “bat shit crazy”
- Should John’s daughters benefit from affirmative action?
Oct 4, 2022 —
China, the US, and the Danger Zone (Robert Wright, Hal Brands, and Michael Beckley)
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Hal and Michael’s book Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China
- Would more weapons to Taiwan provoke Beijing to strike now?
- Michael: China feels threatened, which makes China threatening
- Hal: The US has a China problem, not just a Xi Jinping problem
- Is autocracy per se a threat to the rules-based order?
- Is the “democracy vs. autocracy” framework a self-fulfilling prophecy?
- Bob: If a threatened China is a dangerous China, is amping up the threat really a great idea?
Sep 30, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey on the latest midterm polling prophecies
- Will the new CNN put the Dems’ cash cow out to pasture?
- Could Putin’s annexation have nuclear fallout?
- Who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines?
- Bob: We’re not grappling with how bad things could get in Ukraine
- Mickey finds a new front in Biden’s “battle against autocracy”
- Is fascism really on the march in Italy?
- Parrot room preview: Mickey tenders his “Contract with America”; guessing Bob’s seventh heaven persona non grata candidate; can AI have sex?; The Rumble (not Bumble) success story; “Serial” podcast subject released; the people Mickey doesn’t want to meet in heaven
Sep 30, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Lara Bazelon
The Glenn Show
- Lara’s critique of Title IX adjudications
- Why Lara defended a college student accused of rape
- Lara’s cross-examination of the accuser
- The trouble with “Believe Women”
- What the Trump Administration got right about Title IX
- Why Lara supports Amy Wax’s freedom of speech
- Does Glenn still feel marginalized?
- Finding common ground amidst political tribalism
- Lara’s work on racial disparities in sexual assault cases
Sep 27, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Who sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines—and what happens next?
- The uncertain consequences of Russia’s referendums in Ukraine
- How Russia’s military failures could lead to Putin’s downfall
- How much pro-Russian sentiment is there in eastern and southeastern Ukraine?
- The odds Putin goes nuclear and the likely western response
- What’s Biden’s endgame in Ukraine?
- Is it too late for a peace deal?
- The chances that China comes to Putin’s rescue
Sep 23, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Putin’s big speech: nothingburger, nuclear nightmare, or something in between?
- Why an escalating Ukraine war is so easy to envision
- All the ways DeSantis is Trump 2.0
- Biden cools it on the anti-MAGA rhetoric
- Italy’s MAGA-like party heats up
- Crunching the midterm election numbers
- What’s wrong with Biden committing to defend Taiwan against China?
- Parrot Room preview: GOP’s new Contract for America; What is national conservatism?; reviewing Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless; Trump’s spoon-bending powers; does AI have cognitive empathy?
Sep 23, 2022 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt attends his high school reunion
- Herschel Walker lowers expectations about a debate with Sen. Raphael Warnock. Meanwhile, Dr. Oz is lowering expectations about John Fetterman’s abilities
- Matt raises concerns about the polls. Then, based on Bill’s math, Matt predicts Republicans will narrowly take the Senate
- Bill thinks Mandela Barnes’ “Defund the Police” rhetoric might have blown his chances of defeating Ron Johnson in Wisconsin
- Matt wonders if Trump reordered politics to the point where states like Nevada—states that seemed to be trending blue—are now competitive
- Matt worries that “Team Normal” in the GOP is normalizing election denying
- Matt laments Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to campaign for Kari Lake. Bill argues this is what Youngkin has to do to be relevant and have a shot at the presidency. Meanwhile, Bill says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s decision to campaign outside Florida is the weirder story
Sep 23, 2022 —
F.R.E.E. Agency (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Rowe)
The Glenn Show
- How Rodney King led to Ian’s podcast, Invisible Men
- Blaming the system and blaming the victim
- Ian: I run schools to show my students they can do hard things
- What’s so special about marriage?
- Glenn: Right living is its own reward
- The problem of success and “blackness”
- Ian’s experience running Vertex
- How Ian funds his schools
- The bureaucratic opposition to charter schools
- What comes after the Old Parkland Conference?
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