Following the revelation that Putin owns a float tank, Nikita Petrov and John Horgan speculate that he may be the Übermensch.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis push back on bipartisan infrastructure deal pessimism.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with DougJ, who runs the parody Twitter account New York Times Pitchbot, about a lazy trope of reporting on Middle America.
Robert Wright and Eli Lake debate whether autocracies violate international rules and norms more than democracies.
International relations scholars John Ikenberry and Patrick Porter debate whether America is an empire.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus debate US foreign policy.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss the rhetoric and politics of the critical race theory debate.
Stephen Wertheim of the Carnegie Endowment and Thomas Wright of the Brookings Institution debate whether the US should fundamentally reevaluate its military engagement abroad.
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss a spate of recent pieces suggesting that the left, more than the right, has escalated the culture war.
Mathematician Timothy Nguyen, in conversation with Robert Wright, critiques Weinstein’s grand theory of physics.