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Feb 24, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Alana May Johnson
Culturally Determined
- The new NYT documentary on Britney Spears
- The many ways the media mistreated Britney
- Revisiting the paparazzi, the head shaving, and the umbrella
- The conservatorship and the #FreeBritney movement
- Why we should have listened to the “leave Britney alone” guy
- Jason Alexander (the other one), K-Fed, and Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce
- Alana’s book subscription project
Feb 19, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Mickey’s critique of the Romney Family Plan
- Bob declares victory over the coronavirus
- Does Ted Cruz’s Cancun blunder bode ill for a future presidential run?
- How Rush tanked Trump’s 2020 campaign
- A somewhat dubious (but very salacious) Jeffrey Epstein update
- Distinguishing Biden’s bullshit from Trump’s bullshit
- Was January 6 a “riot” or an “insurrection”?
- Parrot Room preview: Woody and Mia, Ben Smith on Donald McNeil, Bob on Iran deal, etc.
Feb 19, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
Feb 16, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Will Wilkinson
The Wright Show
- How one of Will’s tweets went awry
- Who are the Rationalists?
- Explaining the Slate Star Codex/New York Times controversy
- Journalism’s epistemological challenges
- Open debate and its discontents
- Will: SSC has been exploited by people with dangerous ideas
- The (over)reaction to the Times’ SSC piece
- Why homogenous groups overestimate their objectivity
Feb 15, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Culturally Determined
- Phoebe’s new position as a senior editor at The Signal
- “Cleansing your timeline” vs. “doomscrolling”
- The agony and the ecstasy of Twitter
- Twitter’s insane risk-reward ratio
- How Twitter makes unpopular ideas seem popular
- With Trump banned, will Twitter return to being a niche site for weirdos?
- Aryeh’s twisted fascination with MAGA and QAnon Twitter bios
- Would we all be better off if social media didn’t exist?
Feb 12, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- Mickey snags a vaccination appointment
- Bob speculates wildly about coronavirus mutations
- What’s missing from the Democrats’ case against Trump
- How Mickey (almost) launched Bruce Springsteen’s career
- Who will inherit the Republican Party?
- Dueling scandals at the New York Times and the Lincoln Project
- Bob and Mickey find common cause in Venezuela
- Parrot Room preview: Marty Peretz disses Rob Malley, the week in cancellation, and the next vast right wing conspiracy.
Feb 12, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & James Lindsay
The Glenn Show
- Tracing wokeism’s origins to mid-century postmodernism
- Determining the right historical narrative on race
- Do progressives have a problem confronting their own racism?
- What can and can’t be said about the 2020 election
- Can the insurrectionists be defended?
- Biden vs. Trump on critical race theory
- James challenges Glenn’s recent mea culpa on Trump
Feb 11, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Matt Lewis and Bill Scher discuss day one of Impeachment 2.0, the import of the Bill Cassidy flip, and whether expanded voting rights actually helps Democrats.
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