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Nov 23, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
John McWhorter speaks his mind on Ibram X. Kendi after the Boston University professor called John’s ideas “racist.”
Nov 20, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey denounces Rudy
- Is Trump damaging democracy?
- Hate speech vs. free speech
- Mickey says “the Left” doesn’t want a peaceful transfer of power
- Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias leave Vox
- When exactly did the New York Times abandon objectivity?
- Will Trumpian election truthers be a major force for years to come?
- The Nonzero Newsletter’s Progressive Realism report card
Nov 19, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Would Alex P. Keaton vote for Trump?
- Matt: The Republicans have somehow gotten even worse post-election
- Biden the centrist vs. the AOC left
- Will the media move on from Trump?
- What Trump’s improved performance with minorities means for the GOP
- Matt: I hate populism
- Gaming out the Georgia special elections
Nov 17, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Stephen Wertheim
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Stephen’s new book, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy
- How the term “isolationism” came to be
- Stephen: Most US foreign policy elites wanted to stay out of Europe through 1940
- The fall of France and America’s decision to dominate the world
- Stephen: The UN was created to project American power
- What happened to making the world safe for capitalism?
- Bob puts Stephen’s arguments through the ringer
- Biden and the future of American hegemony
- Stephen says “restrainers” are gaining ground in foreign policy circles
Nov 16, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Leon Wieseltier
The Glenn Show
- Leon’s new journal Liberties and the current political climate
- Leon: Art “should not be subjected to a political standard”
- Glenn and Leon disagree on Trump
- Leon, an “unrepentant interventionist,” discusses foreign policy
- What’s inside the first edition of Liberties?
- Leon defends the idea of Zionism
- America and Israel: two experiments in moving past anti-Semitism
- Thoughts on America’s moment of racial reckoning
Nov 15, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Joanna Mang
Culturally Determined
- How Joanna became a Jeopardy! champion
- The source of Alex Trebek’s popularity
- Joanna on who should replace Trebek
- Why Aryeh was happy that he failed to get on Jeopardy!
- Trivia in the age of Google
- Is Vanderpump Rules the perfect reality show?
- A reality TV show starring people who grew up watching reality TV shows
- Aryeh’s theory on the secret to the success of Great British Bake Off
Nov 13, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Trump’s chances of overturning the election
- Revelations from Giuliani’s Four Seasons Landscaping press conference
- Mickey’s Freudian theory of guilt-fueled anti-Trump triumphalism
- The debut of the progressive realism report card
- Explaining down ballot Republicans’ outperformance of Trump
- What’s next for Trump and Trumpism?
- Jeffrey Toobin’s punishment
Nov 11, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katrina Gulliver
Culturally Determined
- The long history of white people claiming Native American ancestry
- White academics exposed as racial fakers
- Anatole Broyard and those who “passed”
- Katrina on Dances with Wolves, Avatar, and other “going native” narratives
- Aryeh’s brief Biden brag
- Drug legalization today and drug panics of the past
- Race and the opioid crisis
Nov 10, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Greg Lukianoff
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Greg’s book, The Coddling of the American Mind
- Greg: Paranoid parenting made today’s college students fragile
- How social media increased polarization and mental illness
- Greg critiques the “hyper-bureaucratization” of universities
- Is the anti–cancel culture brigade hypocritical about free speech?
- Greg praises the American folk understanding of free speech
- How much should we respect the religious sensibilities of others?
- How cognitive behavioral therapy helped save Greg’s life
- Twitter as meditative practice
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