Glenn Loury and John McWhorter debate whether new election regulations are aimed at suppressing the Black vote.
Matt Lewis takes issue with Democrats’ invocation of Jim Crow’s legacy in the current voting rights debate.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Matthew Sitman, cohost of the podcast Know Your Enemy.
Robert Wright asks cyber security expert Tim Stevens how confident we can be that Russia was behind the Solar Winds hack.
Connor Echols and Jessica J. Lee discuss why crippling sanctions haven’t brought North Korea to the table.
Robert Wright argues that U.S. lawmakers’ mindless defense of intellectual property rights makes it harder to defeat the pandemic.
Glenn Loury and Josh Cohen discuss the philosopher John Rawls’s vision of liberalism.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis explore what’s different, and what’s not different, in the gun control debate after the recent mass shootings.
Robert Wright explains how mindfulness could help humanity overcome destructive cognitive biases.
Nikita Petrov and John Horgan provide a mystical perspective on Steven Pinker’s case for informed optimism.