Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss how Kathy Barnette’s surging poll numbers are complicating the Pennsylvania GOP senate primary.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter debate whether the ends now justify the means in American politics.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis debate whether Barack Obama is responsible for Democrats losing ground in states like Nebraska.
Robert Wright and former US diplomat Susan Thornton discuss the optics.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the impact of new weapons on the course of the war.
Glenn Loury and Briahna Joy Gray discuss the reasons behind the Democratic Party’s resistance to progressivism and left populism.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether Republicans will accept judicial victory gracefully or take things too far.
In conversation with Robert Wright, philosopher Bernardo Kastrup explains how to make sense of the (seemingly) material world under a consciousness-only model of reality.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss Twitter’s crucial role in helping writers monetize.
Glenn Loury and Greg Thomas, co-founder of the Jazz Leadership Project and senior fellow at the Institute for Cultural Evolution, discuss the past and future of black cultural forms.