24 June 2018
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Jun 21, 2018 —
Glenn Loury & Bret Weinstein
The Glenn Show
- What is the Intellectual Dark Web, and does Glenn belong in it?
- The IDW’s proximity to the alt-right
- Bret: The IDW’s commitment to truth supersedes ideology
- Does civility in argument still matter?
- How Trump baits the left into defending the indefensible
- Bret: The Democratic Party rigged the 2016 primary
Jun 19, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Amanda Mull
Culturally Determined
- Amanda: Body positivity is a scam
- What causes women to feel badly about their bodies?
- The double-edged sword of looking at bodies on Instagram
- Why Amanda sees her critique as separate from #MeToo
- Why has the fashion world embraced ugly clothes?
- The effect of online shopping on plus-size clothing options
Jun 18, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Omar Baddar
The Wright Show
- Omar critiques Wajahat Ali’s controversial article on West Bank settlers
- How the Israel/Palestine conflict is covered in the media
- The Israel Anti-Boycott Act
- Bob offers a defense of Ali’s article
- Has the Mideast conversation shifted in America?
- Omar sees the Boycott Israel movement growing in power
- Israeli fears of Palestinian violence and their political consequences
Jun 14, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Democrats tread carefully reacting to Trump’s North Korea summit
- Has North Korea changed NeverTrump conservatives’ minds?
- Bill: Trump finds common ground with violators of human rights
- Matt: Trump sets himself apart from “metrosexual” world leaders
- The unenviable position of being an elected Republican under Trump
Jun 9, 2018 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- Does John have “light skinned” privilege?
- Why marrying out-of-race is a loaded issue in the black community
- How anger at structural racism becomes blinding
- John: What makes black oppression in 20th century America unique?
- Why identity built around victimhood is the modern way
- Roseanne Barr and the significance of punching up or down
Jun 8, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Wajahat Ali
The Wright Show
- How Wajahat got disinvited from a major Muslim conference
- The Israel-Palestine conflict: Jews vs. Muslims or Jews vs. Arabs?
- Why publishing in The Atlantic fueled the controversy
- Wajahat’s essay takes criticism from left and right
- Worst-case scenarios
- Can the international community change the equation?
- The case against Wajahat, and his response
Jun 6, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Did Trump make a big mistake by uninviting the Philadelphia Eagles?
- Want a presidential pardon? Have your wife plead your case on Fox!
- Has Trump spurred a left-right realignment?
- Would a non-racist Trump have done better or worse?
- Bill: In South Dakota, #MeToo helped a GOP candidate win
- California’s crazy primary night
Jun 5, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jason Zinoman
Culturally Determined
- Jason’s new book, Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night
- Letterman’s influences: Carson, Allen, and Paar
- Letterman as a postmodern figure
- Looking at Letterman and women through the lens of #MeToo
- Letterman’s self-hatred and depression
- How the show changed on CBS and the war with Leno
- Late-period Late Show, a bizarre place to work
- Jason: Letterman helped normalize Donald Trump
Jun 1, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Shireen Al-Adeimi
The Wright Show
- Yemen-born Shireen on the civil war in her homeland
- Why is the US helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen?
- Shireen: The Saudis work with Al Qaeda in Yemen
- A brief history of the conflict in Yemen
- How the war turned Shireen into an activist
- What’s the Saudi endgame? What’s the Houthi endgame?
- Is the US in effect helping Al Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen?
Jun 1, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Bill and Matt rave about country music podcast “Cocaine & Rhinestones”
- Dinesh D’Souza’s descent from intellectualism
- Making sense of Trump’s high profile pardons
- Among Roseanne, Samantha Bee, et al., whom would Matt fire?
- What Joy Ann Reid and Ronald Reagan have in common
- Bill previews next week’s California primaries and San Francisco’s mayoral race
May 30, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Culturally Determined
May 29, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov
The Wright Show
- “The harshness of Russian law is softened by its optionality”
- Nikita’s briefly successful escape from a paddy wagon at a political rally
- It’s not always Putin who kills Russian journalists (Meet Chechnya’s leader)
- A look inside Russia’s supposedly fearsome troll factory
- Support for Putin and Russia’s intimate relationship with suffering
- “Monstration”: a mock rally investigating the absurd
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