15 August 2022
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Aug 12, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Forecasting Trump raid fallout
- Could the Dems bring back “Build Back Better”?
- Bob and Mickey compare blue-collar bona fides
- Scoring Biden’s recent PR wins and losses
- What’s scarier: social media, the FBI, or your Roomba?
- Ukraine war update
- Bob: How ‘defending’ Taiwan could get it invaded
- Parrot Room Preview: The Blobsters advising the White House, yet more Jonah Goldberg trash-talk, Mickey’s car-buying blues, Bob’s rave CRV road-trip review, where in the world is Ghislaine Maxwell?, Mickey’s meritocracy conundrum, AI takeover, Saudi golf tour talk, Bob shorts “longtermism”
Aug 12, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Reihan Salam
The Glenn Show
- Glenn’s impact on Reihan
- How Reihan became president of the Manhattan Institute
- What is the Manhattan Institute’s relationship to Eric Adams’s administration?
- The value of dissenters
- Reihan: We’ve underinvested in our criminal justice system
- What constitutes a quality high school education?
- Michael Bloomberg’s education initiatives
- Reihan’s concerns about racial reification
- The uses and abuses of racial identity
Aug 9, 2022 —
Remnants of the Blogging Era (Robert Wright, Jonah Goldberg and Mickey Kaus)
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Remembering the halcyon days of early Bloggingheads
- Jonah: Our institutions have become platforms for parasites
- Censorship and polarization in the social media age
- What Mickey cribbed from Jonah to jumpstart his blogging career
- How Twitter killed the blogging star
- Is Substack blogging reborn?
- What’s the matter with the modern left? Jonah diagnoses
- A Trump-Biden rematch and other depressing symptoms of polarization
- Is devotion to an institution a sucker bet?
Aug 5, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Rip Van Kaus awakens to a frightening new reality
- Bob and Mickey scan the dial for better Christian music
- Did the Taliban sell out Ayman al-Zawahiri?
- Bob: Weapons sent to Ukraine will end up in US extremists’ hands
- Why did Nancy Pelosi go to Taiwan?
- If Trump had been reelected, would Putin have invaded Ukraine?
- Ukraine War update
- Are pro-choice Kansas voters also pro-Democrat?
- Mickey: My fears about Democratic midterm gains look more and more realistic
- Joe Manchin zags his way into supporting BBB
- Biden manages to avoid stagflation (for now)
- Parrot Room preview: Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Brittney Griner, Monkeypox, Jonah Goldberg, the (possible) fascism of JD Vance and Blake Masters, Mickey’s beef with Chris Murphy, Mikey’s defense of mansplaining, the end of social media, a small wrinkle in the midterms, Obnoxious Use of the Word “Agency” of the Week, the third party question, John Fetterman, and the LIV Tour antitrust suit
Aug 5, 2022 —
Capitalism and Democracy in Post-Industrial America (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Richard Wolff)
The Glenn Show
- A special announcement from Glenn
- Richard’s journey from quiet Marxist to public intellectual
- Why Youngstown, Ohio was left behind
- Richard: Capitalist ownership is inherently anti-democratic
- Richard’s critique of Hayekian libertarianism
- Pecuniary externalities vs. objective externalities
- Socialism’s historical track record
- Employees as stakeholders
- The rise of the right in the wake of the New Deal and WWII
- The Glenn Show’s new partnership with the Manhattan Institute
Aug 2, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Tom: Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan imperils the defense of Ukraine
- Unpacking the Russia-Ukraine/China-Taiwan analogy
- Tom’s critique of Bob’s argument on Russia-Ukraine
- The dangers of humiliating and alienating China
- Does Biden have a plan for winding down the war in Ukraine – and does Putin?
- China could push Russia to end the war – so why is Pelosi poking the panda?
- Why cooperation with China is in America’s national interest
- Tom’s scoop on Zelensky’s worsening reputation in the White House
- Why Tom thinks a diplomatic resolution should come sooner rather than later
Jul 29, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Stephon Alexander
The Glenn Show
- Glenn and Steph’s jam session
- Steph’s adventures in the multiverse
- The parallels between black art and physics
- The centrality of self-reference in Steph’s work
- Is there a racial dimension to how excellence reveals itself in students?
- How Steph learned to level up
- Steph’s new book, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics
- Steph’s admiration for prior generations of Jewish physicists
- How Glenn and Steph navigate stigma
- What is the Higgs boson?
Jul 26, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Rajan Menon
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Rajan walks through three ways the war could end
- Assessing Ukraine’s and Russia’s military aims
- The causes and consequences of Ukraine’s optimism
- What might weaken Ukrainian and western resolve?
- How America’s toxic political discourse prolongs the war
- Does Biden have a plan?
- Do we understand Putin’s motivation
- Will Putin accept anything short of taking the entire Donbas?
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