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Feb 21, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Coleman Hughes
- Coleman’s definition of “wokeness”—and why he’s against it
- Poverty or privilege: Which predicts wokeness among black Americans?
- How much progress has America made since Jim Crow?
- Why writers in particular are haunted by their past
- How racists and criminals are made
- Does “hip-hop culture exist”—and is it bad?
- Coleman diversifies his controversy portfolio
Feb 17, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- How should Republicans counter Biden’s blue-collar messaging?
- The disturbing thing balloon-gate reveals about the Dems
- The Fetterman health crisis
- Twitter’s Elon algorithm
- Are women more conciliatory than men?
- Is Biden pushing Zelensky toward the negotiating table?
- An underappreciated risk of arming Ukraine
- Parrot room preview: Bob drops some hip-hop knowledge; an AI-war reversal and the dangers of “stochastic parrots”; trans activists taking names; Mickey’s quantum-physics-related pitch for Bob’s next book; new Epstein docs
Feb 14, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Norman Finkelstein
- Norman’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom
- How Norman exposed a bestselling book as a hoax
- The price Norman paid for taking on Alan Dershowitz
- What effects has “wokeness” had on academia?
- Pronouns and the perils of linguistic prescriptivism
- Who’s pushing identity politics on the left? And why?
- A few unkind words about Bari Weiss
- Norman: Ibram X. Kendi is a fashion statement not a scholar
Feb 10, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Why Biden’s big speech has Bob worried
- Did the US blow up the Nord Stream pipeline?
- Trump accuses DeSantis of grooming
- With friends like Joe Rogan, Ilhan Omar doesn’t need enemies
- The latest from the Twitter Files: new dirt on the Blob
- Biden takes on Xi, seems a little unhinged
- Why more people are concerned about Ukraine’s chances
- Parrot Room preview: Did the West block Russia-Ukraine negotiations?; social vs. income equality; reviewing The Long Goodbye; America’s AI arms race; quantum physics; grading Burt Bacharach songs.
Feb 7, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Gabor Maté
- Gabor’s new book The Myth of Normal, about trauma and mental and physical illness in modern Western society
- Are we all victims of a “toxic” culture?
- Gabor’s early years in Nazi- and then Soviet-occupied Hungary
- What Gabor thinks standard theories of addiction get wrong
- Can trauma ever be a good thing?
- Was Bob’s childhood traumatic? And if so, how?
- Trauma, attachment, and authenticity
- Is modern society hostile to community?
- The difference between healthy and unhealthy anger
- A primer on “compassionate inquiry”
- The time Gabor was leading an ayahuasca retreat and got deposed by shamans
- Gabor on why cognitive empathy is difficult but essential
- What Gabor sees as the essence of the book
Feb 3, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Is the 2024 race shaping up to be a political Groundhog Day?
- Ilhan Omar and the Israel criticism tightrope
- Does the left or right look worse on recent Russiagate disclosures?
- A question about the DNC email hack
- Ukraine war update: Is time on Russia’s side?
- Is the Biden admin angling for a peace deal with Putin?
- Parrot Room preview: Evil—the show and the concept; the Tyre Nichols killing; Gaetz’s bad idea; AI inquiries; Mickey’s thrilling new Twitter power; untangling quantum entanglement; what happened to hope in politics?
Jan 31, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov
- Nikita’s life as a Russian expat in Armenia
- How the Ukraine war is talked about in Russia
- Could Putin fall from power?
- Who left and who stayed in Russia post-mobilization?
- Russia’s role in the Armenia-Azerbaijan crisis
- How the Ukraine war could turn into World War III
- Are “false flag” claims about the Maidan Massacre beyond the pale?
- The trouble with the way we talk about war
- The role of extremists in mass protests
Jan 27, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Can AI transcend conventional wisdom?
- Is Trump back as 2024 GOP frontrunner?
- The trouble with “the poor”
- J.D. Vance has Ukraine on the brain
- Ukraine update: How to make sending tanks make sense
- Parrot room preview: Bob’s quasi-lucid dream; Evil corrections; The deep roots of Russian nationalist support for the war; Leon Wieseltier quote critique; DeSantis and black history; should judicial noms know their civics?; Kyrsten Sinema conspiracies; economic vs. social inequality; “exciting” child tax credit news; Israel’s multiple powder kegs
Jan 24, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Ivan Katchanovski
- Ivan’s Ukrainian upbringing and academic background
- Where did pro-Russian sentiment in eastern Ukraine come from?
- Why Ivan worried Ukraine’s 2014 revolution would lead to civil war
- Did Europe impede resolution of Russia-Ukraine tensions?
- What western media gets wrong about the Maidan revolution
- Was the Maidan massacre a false flag operation?
- The state of Ukrainian democracy after the Maidan revolution
- The political forces that impeded Zelensky’s peace plan
Jan 20, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- The alphas of the world gather in Davos
- Mickey buys a blue check, dresses up to celebrate
- Does Russia have Ukraine on the defensive?
- How serious is the threat of US government debt default?
- Biden’s chances in 2024
- Parrot Room preview: David Crosby passes away; Alec Baldwin charged with manslaughter; the issue that could destroy woke-ism; college after affirmative action; a false flag in Ukraine?; More Elon news; loyalty oath at Sundance; Bob reviews Top Gun: Maverick
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