15 July 2025
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Jul 12, 2025 —
Connor Echols & Neysun Mahboubi
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Why Neysun brings American students and scholars to China
- Visiting China after Covid
- Balancing US and Chinese red lines
- When Neysun’s students pushed Chinese officials on human rights
- Do US students fear career risks for going to China?
- Cultivating cognitive empathy
- China’s obsession with US politics
- Trump’s surprisingly consistent approach to Beijing
- Are Chinese students really spies?
- Is China studies becoming the next Kremlinology?
- How Neysun navigates US fears about exchange with China
Jul 10, 2025 —
Robert Wright & Greg Gutfeld
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- A brief message from Bob
- Greg’s new book, The Gutfeld Monologues
- How going to Berkeley pushed Greg toward conservatism
- Trumpism creates strange ideological bedfellows
- Bob offers a magic solution to the freedom vs. security dilemma
- Was Obama right to avoid the phrase “Islamic radicalism”?
- Trump’s savvy use of identity politics
- The secret ingredient to Greg’s meditation practice
Jul 8, 2025 —
Robert Wright & David Chalmers
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Jul 4, 2025 —
Connor Echols & Alan Eyre
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Are US-Iran talks dead?
- Do normal Iranians care about the nuclear program?
- Understanding Iran’s enrichment red line
- Assessing the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities
- Iran’s decision to kick out inspectors
- Could Iran build a bomb in secret?
- Trump’s “desultory” approach to talks with Iran
- Alan’s experience negotiating with the Iranians
- How Obama managed to get a deal
- Iran’s focus on projecting strength
- Does Iran really want a bomb?
- Iran’s dim view of international law
Jul 3, 2025 —
Robert Wright & John Mearsheimer
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- A brief message from Bob
- John’s upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
- Is the US to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
- Is Putin less rational than John assumes?
- Why John is a Russia dove and a China hawk
- Does China pose a threat to freedom around the world?
- Why John thinks China’s rise threatens American security
- Has globalization made great-power peace possible?
- Should the US defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion?
Jun 27, 2025 —
Connor Echols & Barry Eisler
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Barry’s new novel, ‘The System’
- CIA lessons & seeing like a Martian
- Fiction, empathy, and geopolitics
- No cartoon villains
- How power really works in DC
- Feinstein vs. Brennan: the ‘sit down’
- Why we excuse ourselves
- Jobs, jets & hidden threats
- The problem with the House
- Valeria’s dilemma: bend or break
- How power corrupts
- Humiliation and geopolitics
Jun 24, 2025 —
The Eternal Causes of War
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Jun 21, 2025 —
Connor Echols & Robert Wright
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Headlines
- – Washington
- – Silicon Valley
- – China
- – Africa
- – Europe
- Bob joins to discuss the Israel-Iran war
- Has Trump had a change of heart?
- The Pandora’s Box of a US attack
- Connor makes the pro-bombing-Iran argument
- Bob: A diplomatic solution would have been ‘trivially easy’
- Trump’s missed opportunity for a win
- Where Israeli and American interests diverge
- Israel’s risky calculus: Escalation over negotiation
- Why won’t Trump use his leverage to rein in Israel?
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