20 October 2021
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Oct 19, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Steven Pinker
The Wright Show
- Steve’s new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Are humans inherently logical?
- What is “motivated reasoning”?
- How attribution error distorts our public discourse
- How Steve deals with criticism of his work
- Bob’s defense of whataboutism
- Did evolution make us moral—or at least moralistic?
Oct 18, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Dara Horn
Culturally Determined
- Dara’s new book, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
- Anne Frank, Jewish self-erasure, and the actual lessons of the Holocaust
- Unique features of Jewish literature and history
- The case for Jewish anger
- The myth of Jewish immigrants’ names being changed at Ellis Island
- Debating Shylock
- The dark truth behind the comic relief of the “last Jew in Afghanistan”
- Dara: American society is fine with hating Hasidic Jews
- Dara’s path to daily Talmud study
Oct 15, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Trump finally crosses the line for Mickey (again)
- Why is Trump threatening to undermine Republicans in the midterms?
- Mickey: It’s smart politics to dump the child tax credit
- Are some of Dave Chappelle’s jokes antisemitic?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s less-than-flattering appraisal of Colin Kaepernick
- Is Steve Bannon going to jail?
- Bob: “The jury is out” on the possibility of democracy in China
- Parrot Room preview: Supply chains, Michael Wolff’s account of Jeffrey Epstein’s theory of Trump, Walgreens closes stores over crime, Nick Kristof’s possible gubernatorial run, more evidence of Ben Rhodes’s blobishness, David Shor, Terry McAuliffe’s chances in Virginia, a roadblock to Mickey’s coup theory, the new Velvet Underground doc, Steven Pinker and the left, a genitalia joke face-off, Facebook’s thought policing, and help for boomers
Oct 15, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- John’s linguistic adventure in Brighton Beach
- The complex racial and economic dynamics of redlining
- The problem with John’s NYT “megaphone”
- A progress report on Glenn’s memoir
- The temptations of playing to the crowd
- What, if anything, does it mean to be “authentically black”?
- Taking “systemic racism” seriously
Oct 12, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Aryeh Cohen-Wade
The Wright Show
- Aryeh’s new YouTube channel
- The early technological innovations of Bloggingheads
- Bloggingheads’s curatorial principles
- How the #Resistance media further alienated Trump supporters
- Is journalistic neutrality an obsolete concept?
- Why did the “cool kids” in the US media get the Iraq invasion so wrong?
- The powers and limitations of the UN Security Council
- Bob: “The pandemic is actually a much more complex problem than climate change”
- Why Aryeh’s show is getting its own YouTube channel
Oct 11, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William Shakespeare
Culturally Determined
- A new YouTube channel for Culturally Determined
- Meet the man who tweets as William Shakespeare
- The most secret and most grave truths of @Wwm_Shakespeare
- Spying a kind of hope in Shakespearean ambiguity
- Have you heard the joke about the old lady who reads Hamlet for the first time?
- Productions that hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature
- Shakespeare’s shameless stealing
Oct 8, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Joe Manchin’s infrastructure shell game
- The Monty Hall problem explained
- What does Bernie want from the infrastructure deal?
- If the Taliban collapses, can Biden count it as a win?
- The exaggerated claims about China’s “incursion” into Taiwan’s “airspace”
- Should we gird ourselves for a Trump 2024 run?
- Why isn’t Biden giving more pushback to the left?
- The Pandora Papers are more consequential than they seem
- Bob: Biden should loosen patent protections on Covid vaccines
- Mickey: There’s new evidence for the lab leak hypothesis
- Mickey’s theory of Ozy founder Carlos Watson
- Parrot Room preview: Bob asks Mickey for car advice, the Iron Dome vote, Bob congratulates Mickey on last week’s outstanding joke, Bob tells a less outstanding John Wayne Bobbit joke, Facebook’s worst week ever, Bob’s near-death experience, a dream about Mort Kondracke, a new Parkinson’s treatment, and talking about Robert Kagan to ward off fascism
Oct 8, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & David E. Kaiser
The Glenn Show
- The post-Vietnam reevaluation of the Cold War
- David: Academic historians largely have abandoned the idea of objective truth
- Were black people really excluded from the New Deal?
- The fortunes of black veterans after WWII
- Why redlining doesn’t tell the whole story about the racial wealth gap
- Why the Chicago Defender endorsed FDR in 1940
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