17 August 2018
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Aug 13, 2018 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- Revisiting the “Starbucks and swimming pool” problem
- A new soft bigotry of low expectations?
- Glenn: Some so-called microaggressions are in fact justified
- John: When I’m microagressed against, I feel superior
- The Nation magazine’s racially controversial poem
- John calls Jordan Peterson “kind of sinister”
- The experience of being the only black person at a conference
Aug 8, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Eve Fairbanks
Culturally Determined
- Eve’s essay on how the 1990s shaped #MeToo
- Fear and possibility in a ’90s childhood
- The decade when testing took over
- What ’90s kids did and didn’t learn about sex
- Being a cool girl vs. being a good girl
- When Eve wanted to say no but felt she couldn’t
- How #MeToo has recast women’s understanding of old relationships
- Are men capable of being better?
Aug 7, 2018 —
Robert Wright & David Kirkpatrick
The Wright Show
- David’s new book, Into the Hands of the Soldiers
- How David wound up witnessing the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
- Al Jazeera as the “Johnny Appleseed” of the Arab Spring
- Varieties of Islamism, from “conservative” to “liberal”
- The Muslim Brotherhood as a bourgeois movement
- Mohamed Morsi’s election, brief tenure, and removal from power in July 2013
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s post-coup struggle for legitimacy
- The Obama administration’s muddled pre-coup messaging to coup-master Sisi
- Did the coup give fuel to Islamist extremists?
Aug 2, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & James Martin Cole
Culturally Determined
- James explains the Democratic Socialists of America
- What does DSA member Ocasio-Cortez’s win portend for the Democrats?
- Was it smart for DSA members to disrupt the Homeland Security Secretary’s dinner?
- Why Medicare for All is the DSA’s flagship policy issue
- The effect of Twitter culture and Chapo Trap House on DSA
- James’s essay on DSA’s future electoral strategy
Aug 1, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- With the economy hot, why are Trump’s approval ratings not?
- What if Trump wants to be a one-term president?
- Why Dems should pay more attention to their boring old centrist senators
- Bill: It’s time for NeverTrump conservatives to just become Democrats
- Is Trump the “racist uncle” of the GOP family?
- The dangers of watching ’80s sitcoms with your kids
Jul 30, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Kathleen Belew
The Wright Show
- Kathleen’s new book on the white power movement, Bring the War Home
- How some veterans of Vietnam and the Gulf War turned to white nationalism
- Did the 1990s militias’ plan to overthrow the federal government make any sense?
- The causes and consequences of the Oklahoma City bombing
- Does PTSD explain the veteran-turned-militiaman?
- “ISIS-associated” Islamist terrorists and “lone-wolf” white nationalists
Jul 27, 2018 —
Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes
The Glenn Show
- Why Coleman dissents from the racial orthodoxy at Columbia University
- Why is race America’s most radioactive topic?
- Social injustice vs. cosmic injustice
- The allure of racial grievance
- Does the black community need better public policies or just self-help?
- What’s the point of affirmative action these days?
- The case against Columbia’s “Great Books” curriculum
Jul 26, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Eli Lake
The Wright Show
- What’s next after Trump’s tweet threatening Iran?
- Bob vs. Eli on whether Iran is a meaningful threat to the US
- Comparing Iranian and Israeli foreign interventions
- Bob: America and its allies turned Syria from a tragedy into a catastrophe
- Why Bob sees no chance of Trump cutting a deal with Iran
- Was the uproar over Trump’s Helsinki performance overblown?
- Is the Republic at peril?
Jul 25, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Drawing conclusions from Michael Cohen’s secret Trump recording
- Is politics becoming the last refuge of the celebrity?
- Did Communism run rampant in the FDR administration?
- Bill wonders if Trump is the modern-day Alger Hiss
- The surprising alliance between American social conservatives and Putin
- Bill: Far-left candidates should be wary of opportunistic support from Russia
Jul 24, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Stephen Greenblatt
Culturally Determined
- Stephen’s new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
- The Henry VI trilogy: Making England Great Again
- Why Shakespeare understood demagogues so well
- Shakespeare’s distrust of democracy and the mob
- How do you stop a tyrant?
- The mad kings in Lear and The Winter’s Tale
- Richard III and Trump, fusing comedy and malice
Jul 23, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Liza Featherstone
The Wright Show
- Liza: Hillary Clinton’s faux feminism lost her the election
- Recalling Clinton’s infamous “baking cookies” remark
- Liza says Clinton used “neoliberal identity politics”
- Progressive, liberal, neoliberal: please define
- Liza’s book on focus groups, Divining Desire
- The truth about famous failures: New Coke and the Edsel
- Was 2016 a rejection of focus-group driven politics?
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