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May 6, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Briahna Joy Gray
The Glenn Show
- Acknowledging the black middle class
- How the Democratic Party works against progressives
- Briahna: The interests of political parties no longer reflect the interests of voters
- Should we increase taxes on the very rich in order to fund the social safety net?
- Briahna makes the case for Medicare for All
- Should we cancel student debt?
- The left-right alliance over intervention in Ukraine
May 3, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- The basics of “analytic idealism”—Bernardo’s consciousness-only theory of reality
- How intuitive is the materialist worldview, really?
- Does evolution select for “true” perceptions of reality?
- Is idealism compatible with evolutionary theory?
- Bernardo: The “physical” world is a convenient fiction
- Putting idealism to the (empirical) test
- The idealist view of various quantum physics quandaries
- Telepathy, premonition, and other “weirdness” under idealism
- Can analytic idealism change your life?
Apr 29, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Does Elon Musk know what he’s gotten himself into?
- Bob: Leaving Twitter is harder than it sounds
- Bob offers Musk a free idea for monetizing Twitter
- Is the US backing Putin into a corner?
- Mickey: Kevin McCarthy’s dumbness is an asset
- A cynical theory about the origins of Russiagate
- Does anyone have anything to look forward to?
- Parrot Room preview: Covid, Jeffrey Goldberg, Mickey is worried about immigration again, false flag accusations against Russia, Bob complains about William Burns’s memoir, Glen Campbell trivia, Tucker Carlson talk, the transition of power at the NYT, another Madison Cawthorn sex scandal, Station Eleven, and Nico
Apr 29, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Greg Thomas
The Glenn Show
- Greg’s work with the Jazz Leadership Project
- How does a “black” art form operate within a corporate environment?
- What’s left of the legacy of Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and Stanley Crouc
- Black culture after the postmodern turn
- Greg’s work with the Institute for Cultural Evolution
- Greg’s critique of Black Lives Matter
- Rooted cosmopolitanism and the “Faustian bargain” of whiteness
- Greg’s very accomplished daughter
Apr 27, 2022 —
A Trump-Biden Rematch? (Bill Scher, Matt K. Lewis, and Robert Wright)
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- At long last, Bob enters the DMZ
- The big changes afoot at the DMZ and Bloggingheads
- Staying alive in a hyper-competitive media environment
- Are we going to see a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024?
- Can DeSantis mount a successful challenge to Trump?
- Is Biden sharp enough to make it through another campaign?
- Is Kamala the Democrats’ best alternative to Biden?
Apr 27, 2022 —
A Trump-Biden Rematch? (Bill Scher, Matt K. Lewis, and Robert Wright)
The DMZ
- At long last, Bob enters the DMZ
- The big changes afoot at the DMZ and Bloggingheads
- Staying alive in a hyper-competitive media environment
- Are we going to see a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024?
- Can DeSantis mount a successful challenge to Trump?
- Is Biden sharp enough to make it through another campaign?
- Is Kamala the Democrats’ best alternative to Biden?
Apr 26, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Marlene Laruelle
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- What Putin means by “de-Nazifying” Ukraine
- Do most Russians support the war?
- The nature of Putin’s nationalism
- What is fascism? Is Russia fascist?
- Are Russia and China creating an alliance of autocracies?
- Sizing up the far right in Ukraine
- Assessing Putin’s turn against liberalism
- Marlene: The West could have averted the Russia-Ukraine war
Apr 22, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob turfs out in a round of “Name That Tune”
- Mickey: Why do trans and immigrant artists seem mostly to make art about trans and immigrant issues?
- Marine Le Pen’s surprising popularity among young French voters
- A possible upside of Putin getting what he wants in Ukraine
- Is the war outlasting Americans’ attention spans?
- What’s really behind Putin’s aggression in Ukraine?
- The search for a Democratic presidential candidate who isn’t Joe Biden
- Biden is not not saying he’ll send troops to Ukraine
- Can anyone stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter?
- The siloing effects of blue checks
- Bob: Wimbledon’s exclusion of Russian tennis players is disgusting
- The massive number of US weapons on their way to Ukraine
- Parrot Room preview: The dismal fate of CNN+, Disney and DeSantis, Mickey’s latest paranoid refundable child tax credit fantasy, the craziness of natalists, Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk on censorship, “the shit hits the fan” for high-achieving white high school students, the Ritter-Lira-Nuland rabbit hole, the weirdness of Elon Musk, Everything Everywhere at the Same Time, the weirdness of Jimmy Webb, and why are so many golfers evangelicals?
Apr 22, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Stephanie Lepp
The Glenn Show
- What is Glenn’s goal as a public intellectual?
- Glenn has his critique of affirmative action …
- … but is articulating the critique enough?
- Glenn: My raison d’être is to give voice to my contempt for the failures of my people
- Stephanie: At a certain point, you’re not describing reality, you’re influencing it
- The case for integralism
- “Evolution is beautiful, but it’s not pretty”
- Glenn’s critique of Stephanie’s “promiscuous pragmatic pluralism”
- A preliminary look into the married life of the Lourys
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