Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis debate whether Texas’ controversial new abortion law risks alienating the political center.
Robert Wright and political scientist John Mearsheimer debate whether the US should try to establish a norm of strict compliance with international law.
Joshua Cohen discusses his new novel, a fictionalized account of a meeting between the literary critic Harold Bloom and Benzion Netanyahu, father of the future Israeli prime minister.
In a conversation from 2007, Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss the delicate position of Black intellectuals in the conservative mediasphere.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss whether a Taliban-run Afghanistan can be incorporated into the global community.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether the US has abandoned its responsibilities by withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Robert Wright and anthropologist Agustín Fuentes debate whether studying porn viewing habits helps us understand the evolution of human sexuality.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Laura K. Field, author of the recent essay “What the Hell Happened to the Claremont Institute?,” discuss the pro-Trump writer Michael Anton.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the media’s treatment of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Glenn Loury and Briahna Joy Gray debate the role of patriotism in cross-demographic coalition building.