29 October 2020
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Oct 27, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias
The Wright Show
- Matt’s new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
- Matt: “Immigration is very underrated”
- Bob: What about the political backlash against low-skilled immigration?
- Why people have fewer kids than they want
- Matt: Climate change isn’t a good reason not to have children
- Is international cooperation on climate change possible?
- Did we make a big mistake on China and information technology?
- The case for solidaristic American patriotism
Oct 26, 2020 —
Free Speech in Academia (Glenn Loury, Carlos Carvalho, and Richard Lowery)
The Glenn Show
- Glenn critiques attempts to make race a part of academic hiring
- “Optics equality” and the denial of group differences
- Improving low-income primary schools
- Topics on which you can’t challenge the consensus
- Glenn’s letter denouncing his own university’s president over BLM
- Can academics “cite inclusively”?
- Will online education disrupt colleges?
- Advice for a nontenured professor with heterodox views
- What should a university administrator do?
- Audience Q&A
Oct 25, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Dan Brooks
Culturally Determined
- Dan’s essay, “How President Trump Ruined Political Comedy”
- Why so many Trump-era Daily Show–style shows have failed
- Trump the insult comic
- Dan: The way liberals and conservatives understand comedy has changed
- Stephen Colbert and Steven Crowder’s different varieties of racial humor
- Trump’s clownishness vs. Obama’s dignity
- Remember when Trump gave a medal to a hero dog? Or was that just a joke?
- Cuties, QAnon, and the return of conservative moralizing
- What might comedy look like during a Biden presidency?
Oct 23, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Mickey’s beef with Jeffrey Toobin
- Reviewing the final presidential debate
- Parsing the Hunter Biden emails
- The case against Joe Biden (and the case against the case)
- Three models of media scandal suppression
- Maybe Rudy Giuliani is just a glitch in the Matrix
- Could the pandemic actually kill 200,000 more people this year?
- Mickey sort of almost finally says he’s voting for Trump
Oct 22, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William Deresiewicz
Culturally Determined
- Bill’s new book, The Death of the Artist
- Why the “long tail” thesis was wrong
- How did the early dream of the Internet die?
- Blockbuster consolidation in fine art
- Luck and privilege
- Is art school a pyramid scheme?
- What is to be done? Bill has some thoughts
- Will the pandemic finish off the arts?
- Wokism as a moral figleaf for careerist college students
Oct 20, 2020 —
Robert Wright & John B. Judis
The Wright Show
- John’s new book, The Socialist Awakening
- Bob wonders: Am I a socialist?
- Why Americans under 40 are so receptive to socialism
- Revisiting John’s 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority
- How Trump pushed Democrats to the extreme on immigration
- Is socialism compatible with identity politics?
- Can labor issues be addressed at the multinational level?
- Why Trump just can’t change
Oct 19, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
Oct 16, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- What do Hunter Biden’s (purported) emails reveal (if anything)?
- Biden’s alleged corruption vs. Trump’s well-documented corruption
- Bob frets that the VP debate hurt Biden
- How Covid could tip a swing state
- Grading Biden’s town hall performance
- Bob tells Biden what to say about court packing
- Would a Biden presidency be transformative?
- Is Trump’s immigration crackdown making the pandemic worse?
- Mickey calls on Biden to have a “Sister Swamp-jah” moment
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