Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with the anonymous person who tweets as William Shakespeare.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether Biden’s falling popularity will galvanize a 2024 Trump run.
Glenn Loury and historian David E. Kaiser discuss the history of redlining and black wealth accumulation after World War II.
Matt K. Lewis argues that politicians who rely primarily on small donations tend to be more hardline and partisan than those with big donors.
Nikita Petrov and John Horgan discuss Russian philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov, who claimed that immortality can be reached through science, but we will only deserve it if we resurrect all previous generations.
Robert Wright and historian Samuel Moyn, author of the new book Humane, discuss how the reaction of activists to wartime atrocities has changed.
Gershom Gorenberg, author of the new book War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, explains why the Nazi general was neither a military genius nor a “good German.”
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether, and in what sense, workers wary of being displaced by immigrant labor should feel threatened by “replacement”.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter debate Barack Obama’s presidential track record on race.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the controversial journalist’s appearances on Fox News and his support for some parts of Trump’s agenda.