Robert Wright and Alex Komoroske, co-founder and CEO of Common Tools, discuss OpenAI’s business model and Alex’s plan to save us from its implications.

Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss Trump 2.0, Peter Thiel, Russia-Ukraine, Covid, “inner emigration,” deepfakes, and other ways disorder has become the new normal.

Robert Wright debates the uses and misuses of American military power with Shadi Hamid, author of the new book The Case for American Power.

Two decades after Bloggingheads.tv debuted, Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus look back on the blog era—and also discuss this week’s election results, Tucker-Fuentes, the AI bubble, and (of course) Jeffrey Epstein.

Robert Wright and Paul Bloom discuss whether podcasts and other DIY media have put an end to gatekeeping and speech codes. Plus: Tucker for prez? William F. Buckley as proto-MAGA; and more!

Robert Wright and American Prestige hosts Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner discuss the US-China trade talks, the state of the Gaza ceasefire, Bill Gates’s climate change of heart, and more!

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.