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.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the possible political repercussions in the US from the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Robert Wright and legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran discuss the idea that schools use “woke” vocabulary to prepare students to speak the language of elite institutions.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Rebecca Panovka, author of the recent essay “Men in Dark Times,” which argues that many misread Arendt since 2016.