Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether concerns about inflation will hurt the infrastructure bill’s chances in the Senate.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter talk about why they continue to push their messages about race in the US.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis debate whether sniping among members of Congress defines our politics.
In a bloggingheads classic from 2009, Robert Wright and Christopher Hitchens debate the thesis of Hitchens’s book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and David Ottlinger ponder the role of contingency in the history of philosophy.
Glenn Loury and economist Laurence Kotlikoff discuss whether current US inflation rates will send us into a longterm crisis.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the comic’s recent criticisms of the Democratic Party.
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.