Matt K. Lewis and Bill Scher return from their post-election hiatus, and brace themselves for Trump 2.0.
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss the conquest of Canada, Luigi Mangione, AI as successor species, Elon’s AI agenda, a Google AI’s acumen, Paul’s (belated) AI awe, brutality on Bluesky, and more.
Andrew Day and Connor Echols discuss the foreign policy news of the week. In this episode, Day and Echols also discuss how progressives should approach Trump’s foreign policy, and then Anatol Lieven joins to discuss Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Robert Wright and Conn Carroll, author of the new book Sex and the Citizen, discuss the history of marriage, its current troubles as an institution, and Carroll’s proposals to address them.
Scott Horton, author of the new book Provoked, makes the case that it did. From Robert Wright’s NonZero Podcast.
Robert Wright and Middle East expert Joshua Landis discuss.
Yuri Deigin of YouthBio Therapeutics, in conversation with Robert Wright, explains why he thinks Covid came from the Wuhan virology lab.
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom debate the issue.
Robert Wright and Nathan Labenz, host of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, discuss the question in light of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent ideological self-disclosure.
Robert Wright and journalist Jefferson Morley, publisher of the JFK Facts newsletter, discuss.