Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss what the ongoing assault on Venezuela says about the president’s foreign-policy agenda—and his mind.

Paul Triolo of the Albright Stonebridge Group and AIStackDecrypted on Substack joins Robert Wright to unpack the latest on the Trump-Xi trade war—plus: how we got here and where things could go next.

Robert Wright and AI safety activist Liron Shapira discuss and decode the vision of AI apocalypse presented in Eliezer Yudkowsky’s new book.

Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss what to expect from Bari Weiss’s CBS News, Trump’s Israel-Gaza deal, OpenAI’s new app platform, and more.

Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss Paramount’s $150M move to bring the Free Press founder in as editor-in-chief at CBS News. Plus: Trump’s Gaza peace plan, Netanyahu on TikTok, a Prigozhin conspiracy theory, and more.

Robert Wright and political scientist Stephen Macedo—co-author of the book In Covid’s Wake—discuss the shortcomings of America’s response to Covid and the forces that shaped it.

Robert Wright and Robert Malley, co-author of the new book Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine, discuss how failures of perspective-taking have doomed attempted solutions.

Robert Wright and David Krueger—AI safety activist and machine learning professor at The University of Montréal—discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s new book on AI takeover and contrast it with David’s own theory of how a takeover could play out.

Robert Wright and Glenn Loury discuss the war in Gaza and the discourse around it—including the “genocide” question, the evolving Israel speech code, and the price Glenn paid for airing diverse views on the Glenn Show.

Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss the threats to and weaponization of free speech norms in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assasination.