12 April 2021
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Apr 9, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- The softer side of infrastructure
- The pitfalls of overracializing policy
- Bob gets pedantic with the New York Times
- Bob: Even if George Floyd was overdosing, Derek Chauvin is accountable for his death
- Is there something to Matt Gaetz’s claim that he is the victim of extortion?
- Bring on the vaccine passports
- Mickey reconciles himself to reconciliation
- Parrot Room preview: Mickey cancels himself, new Tiger Woods driving data, and just how big of an asshole was Bob during Slate’s Slow Burn taping?
Apr 8, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matthew Cooper
The DMZ
Bill Scher and special guest Matt Cooper discuss Manchin’s machinations, the politics of the crime spike, Kamala Harris’ new role as border crisis manager, and the merits of Substack.
Apr 6, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Jesse Singal
The Wright Show
- Jesse’s new book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Solve Our Social Ills
- Does the Implicit Association Test actually measure bias?
- The flawed methodology underlying the superpredator theory
- Why the grit theory lacks staying power
- The replication crisis in experimental psychology
- Jesse clarifies his views on child gender dysphoria and transgender athletes
Apr 5, 2021 —
Connor Echols & Madawi Al-Rasheed
- The rapid rise of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman
- Madawi: MbS is Saudi Arabia’s response to the Arab Spring
- Populism and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
- Why Saudi Arabia cares so much about Iran
- Madawi: Don’t expect an Israeli flag in Riyadh quite yet
- How much can Biden influence Saudi policy?
- Has MbS bitten off more than he can chew?
Apr 2, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Iran’s move toward China
- Gaetzgate explained (or at least described)
- Puzzling over Biden’s infrastructure bill strategy
- The political risks of racial equity legislation
- Is the corporate pressure campaign against the Georgia voting law working?
- The George Floyd jury’s pressure chamber
- Parrot Room preview: Mickey takes the Deplorable Automotive Challenge, the strange death of Tony Hsieh, the challenges of post-Covid bathroom design, and is Mickey pampered?
Apr 1, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- The long, hard, potholed road to the infrastructure bill
- Biden’s less-than-bipartisan opening position
- Can conservatives count on Joe Manchin?
- “Talking filibuster” talk
- The legacy of Jim Crow in the current voting rights debate
- Bill falls victim to a series of devastating April Fools’ Day pranks
- Will the Democrats’ “Jim Crow” argument backfire?
Mar 31, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Matthew Sitman
Culturally Determined
- Matt’s podcast on the conservative movement, Know Your Enemy
- Matt’s journey from movement conservative to democratic socialist
- Trump and the conservative intellectuals who tried to defend him
- Can there be a Trumpism without Trump?
- A cheer or two for the anti-Trump neoconservatives
- Are all the young conservative intellectuals just grifters?
- What Matt still retains from his conservative days
- Joe Biden, our first publicly Catholic president
Mar 30, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Tim Stevens
The Wright Show
- How do we know Russia was behind the Solar Winds hack?
- The political nature of cyber attribution
- Tim: A digital Geneva Convention isn’t possible—at least not yet
- Why don’t great powers want a cyber war treaty?
- Tim: We should focus on building strong international norms
- The dangers of cyber war in an interconnected world
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