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Jan 10, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Michael Tracey
Culturally Determined
- So what’s the deal with Tulsi Gabbard?
- Tulsi’s critique of the Democratic party
- Who counts as a “crank”?
- The many reasons Tulsi drives people crazy
- Why is she not just barnstorming for Bernie?
- The theory that she’s a secret Trump agent
- Does Tulsi support Indian PM Modi’s Hindu nationalism?
- Tulsi’s foreign policy beyond the Middle East
- A brief exchange on the wisdom of impeachment
Jan 3, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Meghan Daum
The Glenn Show
- What’s new about the culture wars?
- Meghan: “White women are the new white men”
- Reacting vs. responding
- Meghan: Gen Xers had the advantage of second-wave feminist childhoods
- Meghan’s controversial essay on “toxic femininity”
- The different kinds of power men and women have
- The case for and against pussy hats
Jan 2, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Kaufman
Culturally Determined
- Initial reactions to The Rise of Skywalker
- Aryeh: The movie’s problems start in the first ten seconds
- The bizarre revelation of Rey’s parentage
- Kylo Ren’s sudden personality change
- Did the finale violate a central rule of the Star Wars universe?
- Why the Marvel movies mostly worked and the new trilogy mostly didn’t
- Dan: Massive corporations plus social media blowback have ruined these films
- Speculating on the future of the saga
Dec 30, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- If Trump wins re-election, will Democrats “go berserk,” as Mickey says?
- The top 1% vs. the next 29%
- What are Bernie’s chances?
- Bob: Negative partisanship is the decade’s most alarming psycho-political trend
- Mickey floats some UFO theories
- An under-the-radar scandal at the world’s chemical weapons watchdog agency
- Bob and Mickey mystified by influence of Twitter elites on presidential campaign
- Silicon Valley: What’s not to hate?
- The past decade’s glimmer of hope: growing awareness of cognitive biases
- Who’s crazier, Bob or Mickey?
Dec 23, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos
The Glenn Show
- Peter explains how stop-and-frisk went too far
- Who or what deserves credit for NYC’s massive murder decline?
- Peter: Reducing poverty is not the way to reduce crime
- Are cops reaping the whirlwind?
- The aftermath of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Laquan McDonald in Chicago
- Criminal justice reform and the potential backlash
Dec 20, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Dominic Johnson
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Dominic’s paper, “Bad World: The Negativity Bias in International Politics”
- Why politicians overestimate threats to national security
- The cognitive bias of “loss avoidance” as fuel for war
- Do international actors give too much weight to past failures?
- World War I as a case study in negativity bias
- Arguments against Dominic’s argument
- Can we use our growing knowledge of cognitive biases to avoid unwise conflicts?
Dec 19, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Bill and Matt’s holiday cultural exchange, featuring Adam Sandler
- Fallout between #NeverTrump conservatives and their peers
- Matt: The Democratic majority is the real silent moral majority
- Bill doubts the influence of progressives in the Democratic primaries
- Should Pelosi “slow-walk” the articles of impeachment to the Senate?
- Why Democrats benefit from delaying the impeachment vote
- Biden winning the nomination will help Dems down-ticket (or so says Biden)
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