12 December 2025
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Jul 29, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob extols the virtues of jury duty
- Ukraine’s counter offensive surge
- What does Hunter’s failed plea deal mean for Joe?
- In search of a DeSantis strategy
- The Niger coup and Cold War II
- Parrot room preview: Israel’s issues; musings on late musicians; Is Ramaswamy surging?; New lab leak controversy; Mickey’s border question for Biden; Is DEI d-e-a-d?; A crazy (ex-)Twitter theory; AI self-regulation
Jul 28, 2023 —
The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Arcidiacono)
The Glenn Show
- Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case
- Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name?
- Why Peter got interested in affirmative action
- Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it
- Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions
- The brilliance of Roland Fryer
- Campus diversity after affirmative action
Jul 25, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Connor Leahy
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Where AI fits in Connor’s tech threat taxonomy
- What does the “general” in artificial general intelligence actually mean?
- What should worry us about AI right now?
- Connor: Don’t put your trust in AI companies
- The promise and perils of open-sourcing AI
- Why “interpretability” matters
- What would an aligned AI actually look like?
- Bridging the technology wisdom gap
Jul 22, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Matt Johnson
The Glenn Show
- How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens
- Matt’s new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment
- Why Matt thinks Cornel West’s Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed
- What’s worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition?
- Matt: Identity politics is a “toxin”
- Was affirmative action ever necessary?
- Matt: I wish the left would rediscover Hitchens’s universalism
- Hitchens’s “fearless liberalism”
Jul 21, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Senator Chris Murphy declares war on loneliness
- Why is the Ukraine offensive going badly?
- Why Biden should push for peace talks now
- Threads unravels
- Was RFK’s Covid conjecture anti-Semitic?
- Mickey reviews the MSM version of DeSantis
- American diplomacy update: murky scandals and trash talk
- Parrot Room preview: Biden corruption scandal; electric car paranoia; what Trump will do if he wins; Mickey on Xi Jinping; Trump’s trials; Tony Bennett passes away; Meta’s dubious AI policy; Is the internet annoying, or is Bob just old?
Jul 18, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Tamler Sommers
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- What is this new Overton Windows series about?
- Tamler’s connections to Israel and Bob’s experiences there
- What does Zionism mean in practice?
- The shifting Overton window around Israel/Palestine
- The heavy-handed response to the BDS movement
- What the Israel/Palestine discourse says about Overton windows
- So where should the boundaries be set?
Jul 14, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- John: Let’s be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action
- Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment?
- Why are we so focused on elite institutions?
- John: The University of California works just fine without “racial preferences”
- “You’re pulling the ladder up behind you” is an invalid critique
- John: The fact that racism exists does not justify changing standards
- Why Roland Fryer thinks we should put our money where our mouth is on race and education
- Will the post-Students for Fair Admissions future turn into a Hardship Olympics?
Jul 13, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey bats .500 on this week’s news quiz
- Gen. “Spartacus” and other Russians with attitude
- What (or who) is impeding peace in Ukraine?
- What Biden has that other possible Dem candidates don’t
- What Trump’s messaging has that DeSantis’s doesn’t
- Untangling Threads’s early days
- Parrot Room preview: AI update; the mysterious Gal Luft; the irony of Klaatu’s speech; Mickey’s diversity epiphany; Canadian euthanasia initiative; Silo spoilers; AMC Pacer maker passes; Bob’s China vindication; Alan Arkin speech debate round three
Jul 11, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Nikolay and Kirill
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Why Bob invited Russians with Attitude onto the Nonzero Podcast
- Why do Kirill and Nikolay support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
- Shortcomings of US mainstream media in covering Russia
- The roots of the Donbass rebellion
- Parallels between the Maidan Revolution and the Donbass rebellion
- What was Putin’s main reason for invading?
- Is Russia systematically committing war crimes?
- Final thoughts from Nikolay and Kirill before heading into Overtime
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