Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Milton Lawson assess the movies in the wake of Avengers: Endgame. (Contains spoilers.)
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss why Elizabeth Warren’s focus on policy will help her in the primary debates, but may ultimately prevent her from winning the nomination.
Robert Wright speaks with Luke Kemp of Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with philosopher Justin E. H. Smith, author of the recent NYT op-ed “The End of Satire.”
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss studies of children and infants that bear on the psychology of tribalism.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis speculate on why Joe Biden focused on the 2017 violence in Charlottesville in his announcement video.
Glenn Loury speaks with John Wood, Jr., media director of the bipartisan dialogue group Better Angels, about the history of polarized politics in the United States.
Primatologist Richard Wrangham, author of the new book The Goodness Paradox, discusses how our ancestors dealt with violent males—and made our species gentler.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Phoebe Maltz Bovy consider how much power “cancellation culture” really has.
In a panel discussion at Harvard with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter explains what led to endemic black poverty in America.