5 July 2020
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Jul 4, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- John: White Fragility is “one of the worst books ever written”
- Debating how we should remember Woodrow Wilson
- Glenn: Our story is about more than just domination and oppression
- On being a dissident black academic
- Why John resigned from the board of the National Books Critics Circle
- Should John and Glenn fear defenestration by the mob?
Jul 3, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Mickey to Trump: Drop out
- How can the number of cases be rising while deaths stay steady?
- How Biden can put his bumbling to his advantage
- Digging into the “Russian bounty on GIs in Afghanistan” story
- Ghislaine Maxwell and the many Epstein conspiracy theories
- Will we ever find out the names of the men Epstein procured girls for?
- Weighing the cancellations of Woodrow Wilson, John Wayne, and JFK
- Mickey sees a potential “Sister Stab-ya” moment
Jun 30, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Sarah Posner
The Wright Show
- How did evangelicals view Trump’s infamous walk to the church?
- Sarah’s new book, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump
- The many commonalities between Trump and Cyrus the Great
- The Christian Right and alt-right, a “coalition of lost cultural dominance”
- The secret origin story of the Christian Right
- Sarah: Race is an animating force of the Christian Right
- Can anything lessen America’s tribal grievances?
Jun 29, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & David Kaiser
The Glenn Show
- David’s memoir, A Life in History
- David: Political history is being ignored in the academy
- Defending the Western model
- Did the Vietnam War spark a turn away from Enlightenment values?
- The 1619 Project and the ideals of the founding
- The lament of the white male
- Why is college so expensive?
- Did the founders actually believe in universal values?
Jun 26, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Theories about why infection numbers are going back up
- What they don’t tell you about masks
- Is it too early to dance on Trump’s grave?
- Mickey: The NYT has become a guilt-tripping barrage of wokedom
- Black activist Shaun King presents Biden with a Sister Souljah opportunity
- A new theory about the infamous WaPo Halloween party story
- Why has the right lost the culture war?
- What would a post-Trump GOP look like?
Jun 24, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- On New York’s primary night, did the left strike back?
- Mail-in voting and fears of corruption
- Biden is up 14 in one poll, but Matt isn’t ready to dance on Trump’s grave
- How is it that Biden is doing better during a period of leftwing civil unrest?
- Why the odds of Warren as VP keep sinking
- Thought experiment: What if Trump goes silent?
Jun 23, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Kaiser Kuo
The Wright Show
- How Kaiser became one of China’s first rockstars
- How the American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade helped break up the band
- Did America’s post-9/11 War on Terror have a liberalizing effect on China?
- Seeing the world from Beijing’s perspective
- Some philosophical questions occasioned by China’s rise
- Racism and America’s fear of China
- How should we judge China’s behavior in its own neighborhood?
- Is President Xi a corruption fighter or just a power consolidator?
- Steve Bannon and his dodgy Chinese sugar daddy
- Kaiser: A huge misconception about China is that engagement failed
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