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Mar 25, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- The righteous indignation of the blue checkmarkless
- Is Russia preparing the ground for a peace deal?
- Why didn’t the US try to broker a deal earlier?
- How much restraint is Putin exercising?
- What shapes US public opinion on foreign policy?
- Reasons to think peace may not be near
- Mickey’s sympathy for Ginni Thomas
- Bob and Mickey do their best to get each other arrested
- The alleged tensions between Team Biden and Team Kamala
- Trump’s dimming presidential prospects
- Parrot Room preview: Bloggingheads rebranding news, more questions about Bob Saget’s death, midterm trouble for Republicans, more theories about why preschool sucks, the origins of symmetry, Dave Rubin’s children, Zemmour falters in France, Oliver Stone’s Ukraine doc, the dangers of loose talk about chemical weapons, both Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hayes retweet Bob, how the Ukraine war is winning converts for the Blob, more OJ Simpson, and the documentary My Architect
Mar 25, 2022 —
What Is Putin Thinking? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Matt Taibbi)
The Glenn Show
- Matt’s brief career as a professional basketball player in Mongolia
- What drove Putin to invade Ukraine?
- Are there limits to Putin’s power in Russia?
- Putting ourselves in Russia’s geopolitical shoes
- The appeal of Russian nationalism
- Did we learn anything from Iraq and Afghanistan?
- Did Russiagate obscure Americans’ ability to see Russia’s actions clearly?
- The value of public apologies
- Matt: Journalists are now in the narrative business
- The foreign policy language barrier
- Matt’s recommends some modern Russian writers
- Matt answers the most pressing question of our time: Celtics or Nets?
Mar 24, 2022 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Lindsay Graham’s puzzling Supreme Court confirmation hearing strategy
- Josh Hawley’s paper-thin case against Judge Jackson
- Are contentious Supreme Court confirmations the new normal?
- The delicate optics of contesting judicial appointments
- How many Republicans will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Mar 22, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Kishore Mahbubani
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Kishore’s diplomatic career and recent book, Has China Won?
- Kishore: America is walking towards a cliff when it comes to handling China
- Is the US making a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely?
- China’s perception of the Uyghur situation
- How anti-China sentiment in America increases Chinese nationalism
- Diagnosing the degeneration of US-China relations since 2012
- Bob: Has technology empowered the Chinese to petition their government?
- Good news! China has no plans to export its political system
- Assessing the threat Beijing poses to freedom in America
- China’s view of the Ukraine invasion
Mar 18, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey engineers an unholy Bob Wright-Michael McFaul chimera
- Is Putin losing or winning slowly?
- What China stands to gain and lose from war in Ukraine
- Bob: Biden’s approach to China seems to be driven by politics, not diplomacy
- Is Xi’s leadership on shaky ground?
- Bob: China is not seeking to impose its political system on the world
- Climate change as the tip of the apocalypse iceberg
- Is Zelenskyy the hero US media makes him out to be?
- How Biden’s Ukraine policy may affect Democrats at the polls
- Iran nuclear talks enter the on-again part of the cycle
- Ten things we got wrong in the pandemic
- Parrot Room preview: Hunter Biden, anti-Asian hate crimes, civil service reform, the Michael McFaul Apology of the Week, OJ Simpson and Natalie Wood theories continued, Oliver Stone’s Ukraine doc, some mild venting about Timothy Snyder, Mickey reveals the results of his Jeffrey Toobin-Jeffrey Goldberg-Vladimir Putin poll, Steve Earle, Mickey’s favorite piece of writing of the week, some studies say preschool sucks, Ketanji Brown Jackson and pedophilia, and Bob talks about a dream
Mar 18, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner
The Glenn Show
- Daniel: Putin’s actions in Ukraine demonstrate the decline of American global hegemony
- Did the Soviet Union have the same expansionist ambitions as the US?
- How the war in Ukraine could increase nuclear proliferation
- Daniel: It’s absurd that people got so upset about Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comment
- Does the US have “mass politics” anymore? If not, is that a bad thing?
- When does it pay to privatize?
- What’s so bad about utopianism?
- Is true meritocracy possible within a highly unequal society?
- The uses (and possible abuses) of game theory
Mar 16, 2022 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt’s luscious locks celebrate their second anniversary
- Will the Daylight Savings issue finally tear Matt and Bill apart?
- Scared Straight: Childcare Edition
- How wars have provoked domestic political realignments in the US
- Matt: Biden is following the Reagan Doctrine in Ukraine
- How far should the US go if Putin escalates the conflict?
- American isolationists are on their heels, but will that last?
- Does Romney deserve credit for his comments about Putin during the 2012 campaign?
- Bill: We can’t lay Putin’s empowerment solely at Obama’s feet
Mar 15, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Eli Lake
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Eli’s assessment of the Russo-Ukrainian War to date
- Is a negotiated end to the war in sight?
- Bob and Eli debate the implications of the leaked 2014 Victoria Nuland call
- Is the war in Russia’s interest? Or Putin’s?
- What options remain for more forceful intervention (that won’t lead to nuclear war)?
- Eli’s idea for a UN alternative sans Russia and (maybe) China
- Debating America’s track record as keeper of the “rules-based order”
- Bob and Eli unite against the new McCarthyism
Mar 11, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Would Ukraine actually agree to cede the Donbas to Russia?
- Bob: Xi Jinping could end the war
- Is Putin using madman theory to his advantage, or is he actually going nuts?
- The pros and cons of regime change in Russia
- Is Ukraine becoming Syria?
- How George W. Bush helped alienate Putin from the West
- Russia’s new incentive to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal
- America’s curious policy on Ukraine and NATO
- Mickey: There’s no necessary link between populism and autocracy
- Parrot Room preview: Oren Cass’s revisionist account of Adam Smith, a relatively wholesome sex scandal at the Southern border, Mickey takes issue with “sneering, overconfident” legal scholar Akhil Amar, new evidence concerning Bob Saget’s death, old rumors concerning Natalie Wood’s death, the American trucker convoy flops, Bob plays damning audio from Jake Tapper, the hospital bombing in Mariupol, complaints about Michael McFaul, Putin, a reader’s question about Bob’s OJ Simpson theory, and Facebook and Twitter’s pro-Ukraine/anti-Russia stances
Mar 11, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- Glenn contemplates exiting academia
- Why should Jeffrey Lieberman lose his jobs over a tacky tweet?
- The historical significance of the word “Negro”
- The revolt against “Latinx”
- Why Glenn doesn’t capitalize “black”
- Why does “blackness” take precedence?
- Glenn: Tenure without mandatory retirement can be a problem
- Will the US send troops to Ukraine?
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