28 November 2024
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Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
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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
Jan 17, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Josh Summers
- Challenges in applying cognitive empathy in daily life
- Two types of self-awareness—and their links to cognitive empathy
- Josh’s recent (mis)adventures in cognitive empathy
- Can self-awareness make conflicts manageable?
- The relationship between concentration and insight meditation
- Literature and the cultivation of cognitive empathy
- Understanding one’s self vs. understanding others
- The ice cube theory of human nature
- Cognitive empathy’s role in building “mindfulness 3.0”
Jan 13, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Anti-gas-stove tyranny – or slow news week?
- Biden’s classified docs scandal is a “granfalloon in search of a MacGuffin led by a wrang-wrang”
- Did Bob Gates and Condoleezza Rice miss a chance to prevent the Ukraine war?
- Is the war turning in Russia’s favor?
- The prospects for peace negotiations
- Parrot Room preview: Biden’s pivot to help the working class; Does AI have a liberal bias?; Has woke peaked?; Matthew Yglesias’ style section profile; Jeff Beck, Lisa Marie Presley, and Blake Hounshell pass away; White Lotus; Mickey’s new conspiracy theory about Kevin McCarthy
Jan 10, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Fred Kaplan
- Why are so many people (including Fred) down on John Mearsheimer?
- Bob: Explaining bad behavior is not the same as justifying it
- How the US eroded international law – and why it matters
- Did US policy make Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more likely?
- NATO’s role in Ukraine before the invasion
- How would the US respond to a China-Mexico military alliance?
- Henry Kissinger’s peace proposal
- Impediments to productive debate on US foreign policy
Jan 6, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Mickey’s guide to the House Speaker drama
- What vexes Bob about the House Speaker vote
- Why Damar Hamlin’s injury wouldn’t have happened in the old days
- Biden’s new good cop, bad cop immigration plan
- Why keep sanctioning Venezuela (or Cuba, or Syria, or Iran, etc.)?
- Elon and the trouble with “great man” theories of tech progress
- Is Twitter’s new views feature a boon or bullshit?
- Ukraine war update
- Parrot room preview: The Matt Schlapp sex scandal; Jason DeParle on welfare; Mickey’s case against “unity”; More calls for a Semafor clawback; an SBF-AIPAC connection; a second Epstein-Harvard connection; The White Lotus
Jan 3, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Dennett
In this classic interview, Robert Wright and Daniel Dennett discuss consciousness, free will, being good without belief in God, and whether natural selection could have a larger purpose.
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