20 September 2020
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Sep 19, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Mickey wants to know what PEDs Biden is taking
- The state of the race
- The state of the pandemic
- The president of Princeton gets hoist by his own antiracist petard
- Bob: The NYT’s over-the-top anti-Trumpism helps Trump
- Trump’s mafia-like TikTok play
- Bob pops the “Abraham Accords” bubble
- Epstein update: Is Barr compromised?
- Assessing Biden’s hawkishness
- RIP RBG. What happens next?
Sep 18, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
The Glenn Show
- Peter: “Mismatch theory” is not a front for racial prejudice
- The problem of data transparency and affirmative action
- Who gets access to affirmative action data?
- Repairing the “broken trust” of America’s racial history
- Would more data transparency actually stop race-based affirmative action?
- Determining the optimal amount of affirmative action
Sep 17, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Back-to-school updates
- Matt: “Anything could matter, but most things don’t matter”
- The state of the race
- Biden’s modern-day front porch campaign
- How well is the Trump campaign being run? And does that even matter?
- Is Biden erring by paying a “prevent defense”?
- Explaining Biden’s strength with seniors
Sep 16, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Christopher Grobe
Culturally Determined
- Chris, a scholar of performance studies, defines performance art
- The two most important performance artists in America: Marina Abramović…
- …and Donald Trump
- When Trump makes a show of “acting presidential”
- Pro wrestling, reality TV, and President Trump—which are real?
- Effective political performance by the Parkland students
- Trump’s performance of victimhood
- Chris reviews the political conventions through the lens of performance
Sep 15, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Robert Kagan
The Wright Show
- Bob K., who call himself a “liberal realist,” defines the term
- In praise of the post-WWII American security umbrella
- Bob K.’s preferred China policy
- Have spheres of influence returned?
- How great powers treat international law
- Bob K.: Mainstream American realists are actually moralists
- Bob W.: America would be better off if it consistently respected international law
- Should democracy promotion be a US foreign policy goal?
Sep 11, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Paul Krugman says Americans took 9/11 “pretty calmly”
- Bob: America’s overreaction to 9/11 paved the way for Trump
- Would Biden just bring back the pre-Trump foreign policy status quo?
- Mickey on the Woodward book: Trump bullshits everyone
- Mickey’s new “mafia” theory about the secret Epstein tapes
- Considering Matt Yglesias’s new book (without having read it)
- The anti–Jeffrey Goldberg line that Trump failed to use
- Americans are falling in love with Joe “Cadaver” Biden!
- Why there hasn’t been a second round of stimulus
Sep 10, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
The Glenn Show
- Peter’s controversial research on racial disparities among STEM majors
- Is affirmative action leading to a dumbed down curriculum?
- Peter’s work on the lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants
- Roland Fryer’s research on race and lethal police force
- Stories vs. statistics
- Remembering Glenn’s late wife, economist Linda Datcher Loury
Sep 9, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Back to school (from home)
- Evaluating Trump’s “everything was fine until…” messaging
- Matt is shocked that Trump is still in the running
- Why is Biden underperforming in Florida polls?
- The story of the Antifa murderer vs. the story of Trump’s military insults
- Is street violence objectively good or bad for Trump?
- Should GOP Senate candidates run as if Biden will win?
Sep 4, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Why the polls may be significantly understating Trump’s support
- Bob and Mickey offer Biden some “Sister Souljah” options
- Anonymous sources say Trump calls dead soldiers losers
- What did Trump mean by “dark shadows”?
- Are things so screwed up that a second Trump term could usefully “heighten the contradictions”?
- Mickey: Democrats are about to flip-flop on mail-in voting
- Bob fears an escalation in violent confrontation between left and right
- Possible pandemic October surprises
- Bob and Mickey on Ben Smith on Andrew Sullivan
- NYT anti-Trump bias (cont’d)
Sep 2, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt: Running against antifa is Trump’s only remaining play
- Trump’s unusual strategy of not running as the incumbent
- Matt wonders whether Trump has an invisible army of potential voters
- After pundits’ many mistakes in 2016, what should we believe in 2020?
- Bill’s Massachusetts primary postmortem
- Is being a Kennedy now an electoral hindrance?
- As goes Jim Gaffigan, so goes the nation?
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