Robert Wright and Josh Summers discuss the importance of overcoming cognitive distortions that are part of human nature.
Mike Watson talks about his new book, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What To Do About It.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus debate whether recent behavior by Representatives Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert is worthy of a formal censure.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss the role of race in crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparities in the 1980s and 1990s.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss why the delayed effects of inflation fixes may not pay off in time for Biden.
Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War,
explains how the CIA’s organizational structure leads to interventionism around the world.
Seth Simons, whose newsletter Humorism covers comedy from the left, argues that Saturday Night Live is conservative.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss who will claim ideological leadership of the Republican Party.
In a speech at the National Conservatism Convention, Glenn Loury critiques conservative attitudes toward racial inequality and proposes a new way forward.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is putting his thumb on the scale.