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Oct 2, 2019 —
Edmund Santurri & Glenn Loury
The Glenn Show
- What does it mean to be a black conservative?
- Why Glenn’s views on affirmative action have shifted back and forth
- What happens if affirmative action is eliminated?
- Glenn critiques the idea of a “New Jim Crow”
- The case against reparations
- Feeling like the token black conservative
- Could reparations lead to a national spiritual renewal?
- Glenn takes questions from the audience
Sep 30, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Michael Tracey
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Michael: Ukrainegate flows out of Russiagate
- Are Democrats overinterpreting the evidence against Trump?
- Does it matter that the whistleblower is a CIA agent?
- Why this was the breaking point for House Dems
- Bob: Trump has inured us to a baseline level of corruption
- Would any other president have done this?
- Will impeachment wind up helping Trump?
- If Trump is gone, Pence could well win in 2020
Sep 27, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Mellie Macker
Culturally Determined
- Mellie: Cancel culture is both real and fake
- Saturday Night Live’s weird place in American culture
- Lenny Bruce was driven to his death but Louis CK is performing again
- Is cancellation just the market working itself out?
- Bret Stephens plays the Twitter martyr
- The Bagel Boss guy and other everyday malefactors who go viral
- Twitter libs try and fail to cancel Mellie
- Roy Cohn and the case for cancellation
Sep 26, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Angie Maxwell
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Angie’s new book, The Long Southern Strategy
- Angie: It wasn’t inevitable that civil rights would become a wedge issue
- The Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly, and anti-feminist backlash
- The subtler replacements for overt racism and sexism
- How the Southern style of politics took over the GOP
- Abortion and the migration of Southern Baptists to the GOP
- Did Republicans take advantage of Billy Graham?
- Trump’s failed party realignment
- Which Democrat has the best chance of beating Trump?
Sep 23, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & John Wood, Jr.
The Glenn Show
- Is polarization a problem to be solved with “water or fire”?
- If Trump wins reelection, will national reconciliation be possible?
- How John’s biography prepared him for this work
- Love thy political antagonist as thyself
- Marianne Williamson and the possibility of racial forgiveness
- Martin Luther King’s legacy in today’s black activist movements
- Glenn: Any movement for justice must be transracial
Sep 19, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Biden, Corn Pop, and the pragmatism of older black voters
- Does the media choose who it wants to win?
- Matt doubts black voters will abandon Biden for Warren
- What happened to Kamala?
- Is Matt’s “too dumb to fail” thesis playing out on the left?
- Cancel culture in comedy
- Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal
- The case of Louis CK
Sep 17, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Bhaskar Sunkara
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bhaskar’s new book, The Socialist Manifesto
- Where Sanders, Warren, and Corbyn fit on the socialist spectrum
- Trump as radicalizer of the left
- Why Marxism failed in Russia and the Third World
- Bhaskar: My objection to capitalism isn’t about the market per se
- Can NAFTA and other trade agreements be made to work for workers?
- Why do socialists tend to be anti-war?
Sep 15, 2019 —
Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Feminine Chaos
- Hey, you guys, is there something wrong with the phrase “you guys”?
- Phoebe: “I have trouble believing people are actually offended”
- Is language policing objectively pro-Trump?
- The epic Instagram-influencer friendship drama of Caroline and Natalie
- Is Natalie just as guilty as Caroline?
- Does Caroline deserve this sort of takedown?
Sep 13, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Eric Kaufmann
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Eric’s new book on populism and immigration, Whiteshift
- Why it’s counterproductive to call Trump supporters racist
- Eric’s vision of an American ethnic nationalism
- Bob: Ideally, shouldn’t we get past ethnicity?
- Will mixed-race children of the future identify as white?
- Debating whether a purely civic nationalism is viable
- The real reasons most white voters backed Trump
- The two Democrats who Eric thinks would do best against Trump
- Is ethnic affinity in our genes?
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