Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss Trump’s changing positions on the Iran nuclear deal from the 2016 campaign to the present.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter cast a critical eye on the popular New York Times Magazine project that reconsiders the history of American slavery.
Robert Wright speaks with psychologist Nina Strohminger about her research on the essential components of the self.
Daniel Bessner and Eli Lake debate whether the NYT columnist was treated unfairly during the Twitter brouhaha.
Loury, in a conversation with Robert Wright, discusses the issues that pushed him back toward conservatism in recent years.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the political difficulties of finding consensus on fighting climate change.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Joanna Mang, who wrote recently about the feminist blog Shakesville and its commenters, about what we think we’re doing when we argue online.
Daniel Kaufman and E. John Winner envision a future of cultural stagnation.
Robert Wright speaks with Alexander Wendt, author of the book Quantum Mind and Social Science, about two of philosophy’s most intractable problems.
Bill Scher speaks with Graham Vyse of Governing, which went out of business today, about journalism and the decline of local media.