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Jan 7, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
Matt and Bill discuss how the insurrection is dividing the Republican Party and impacting 2024. Plus, how Trump lost Georgia, and what a 50-50 Senate means for Biden.
Jan 5, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Jamie Metzl
- Jamie’s book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
- Why Jamie thinks young adults should freeze their sperm or eggs now
- The state of genetic engineering today
- The specter of eugenics
- Will gene-splicing create a new kind of inequality?
- How to avoid a eugenics arms race among nations
- Jamie predicts what kinds of gene editing will be possible in 10 years
Jan 1, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner
- Glenn’s rightward shift in the early 80s
- A feeling of alienation from the Black elite
- Glenn and Daniel discuss neoliberalism and the “American empire”
- Glenn’s emergence as a public intellectual
- How Glenn earned a unique place in public discourse
- Glenn’s hiatus from and return to economic theory
- How Glenn helped coin the term “social capital”
Dec 30, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- The swankier side of Bob
- Could Pence derail Biden on January 6?
- Bob and Mickey try to capture 2020 in one sentence. Then try again. And again.
- Forecasting the pandemic’s end
- Should auld grievance be forgot
- Can Biden avert a new cold war?
- What Bob and Mickey got right and wrong about 2020
- Mickey’s best and worst of 2020
Dec 29, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Eric Alterman
- Looking back at Eric’s 25-year reign as The Nation’s media columnist
- The virtues and vices of democratized media
- Bob: Why does mainstream media do the bidding of the Blob?
- Eric accuses Bob of shirking his gatekeeping responsibilities
- Eric’s free speech case against BDS
- Bob’s problem with #Resistance journalism
- The strange case of Elliot Abrams
- Eric tries to dissuade young people from going into journalism
Dec 25, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- Why won’t Jones, Kendi, and others come on the Glenn Show?
- The need for more discussions between black intellectuals who disagree
- The dilemma faced by contrarian black intellectuals
- John and Glenn ponder their niche
- What can’t be said about race
- Will we see a more honest discourse on race after Trump?
- John explores the current controversy at the Dalton School in NYC
Dec 23, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
Matt and Bill discuss whether we can still expect to get relief checks and close out 2020 by assessing what they got right and wrong.
Dec 22, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Aaron Maté
- Aaron: The new BBC podcast on the White Helmets is journalistic malpractice
- Aaron critiques the standard Western narrative on Syria
- Was the Syria intervention just a proxy war against Iran?
- How Aaron changed his views on Syria (featuring Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters)
- The controversy over the 2018 chemical attack in Douma
- How epithets like ‘Assad apologist’ short-circuit good journalism
- Aaron’s beef with Bellingcat
- How more transparency at OPCW would help the fight against chemical weapons
- Bob’s Christmas wish
Dec 18, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Bob receives the Maroon 5 endorsement
- The New York Times piece on the Toobin Affair
- The endless attempt to overturn the election
- Could we double the rate of covid vaccination?
- Does Joe Biden have an ideology?
- Bob fails in his bid to troll the Blob
- Mickey’s embarrassing tweet takes off
- Twitter’s anti-egalitarian bent
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