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Aug 20, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Unmasked liberals in their natural environment
- The sharply rising Covid-related death rate in the US
- Should the US send vaccine doses abroad before giving boosters at home?
- Bob: The Afghanistan withdrawal could reduce the risk of domestic terrorism
- Is there political logic behind Biden’s position on Afghan refugees?
- Bob: We could have won the Cold War with much less military intervention
- Is “authoritarianism” the new “international communism”?
- Is there an anti-American terrorist threat lurking in Syria?
- The military’s institutional bias against bad news
- Will Biden reinstitute Trump’s “stay in Mexico” policy?
- Parrot Room preview: The Kamala problem, JD Vance, the case against Ghislaine, Twitter lets users flag misinformation, a new Larry Elder scandal, the Atlantic’s supposed prosperousness, Nanci Griffith, the backstory on Bob and Mickey’s teetotaling, the Weinsteins, Ted Lasso, and some inspiration for Mickey
Aug 20, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Briahna Joy Gray
The Glenn Show
- The bias narrative vs. the development narrative
- What are the causes of “behavioral maladies” in black communities?
- Will more funding for social services reduce violent crime?
- Glenn: The clock is ticking for the least advantaged African Americans
- Debating black patriotism
- American exceptionalism and the dominance of capitalism
- The necessary checks on capitalism
- The call (from Bernie Sanders) is coming from inside the house
Aug 17, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mehrsa Baradaran
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Aug 16, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rebecca Panovka
Culturally Determined
- Rebecca’s essay on how Hannah Arendt was misread during the Trump years
- A capsule biography of Arendt
- The real meaning of Arendt’s famous line about “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule”
- Rebecca: Trump’s lies were mostly “boardroom bullshit”
- Are Trump’s post-election machinations approaching “big lie” territory?
- The banality of evil vs. grotesquerie of Trump
- “Post-truth” in the run-up to the Iraq War
- The banality of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld
- Rebecca cofounded The Drift as an antidote to the monolithic media narrative
Aug 13, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Meet the new virus, same as the old virus
- The confounding Covid numbers coming out of Florida
- Just a couple of cowards talking about JD Vance
- The Biden administration’s lackluster messaging on the Delta variant
- Hunter Biden faces some deep questions from a prostitute
- Mickey: “Democratic paranoia” about new voting laws is actually about the filibuster
- Bob: The current Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could be worse
- Dems are so close to, yet so far from, passing infrastructure
- Does Andrew Cuomo have a political future?
- Parrot Room preview: Bob floats a new Grand Unified Theory of the Weinsteins, some Jeffrey Epstein news involving a doll, the Muscle Shoals doc, Trump’s wall, Glenn Greenwald gets ready to Rumble, Bob’s half-thought about vaccines, the 1/6 commission, and The Best and the Brightest continued
Aug 13, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- Does systemic racism still exist in the US?
- Addressing “racial inequities” rather than “systemic racism”
- John: “The idea that modern colleges and universities are racist spaces is false”
- Race and the academic job market
- Why does anger persist even after progress toward racial redress?
- The (possible) origins of the recent wokeness wave
- Finding room for disagreement
Aug 12, 2021 —
Michael Swaine & Orville Schell
- How much can the US influence Chinese policy?
- Who is to blame for current US-China tensions?
- Orville: There is a real ideological clash between the US and China
- Michael: Washington can’t resolve the Hong Kong crisis
- Balancing cooperation and competition
- What threat does China pose to the US?
- Demilitarizing the South China Sea
- To what extent should the US “decouple” its economy from China’s?
- Improving crisis management
Aug 10, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Adam Weinstein
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Adam’s military service in Afghanistan
- How much popular support does the Taliban have?
- Adam: If the US didn’t withdraw there would be no end in sight
- Why is the Afghan military struggling to hold off the Taliban?
- A primer on Afghanistan’s largest ethnic groups
- What are the chances of a political settlement?
- Will withdrawing from Afghanistan bring terrorism to America?
- Adam: Withdrawing helps the US focus on existential threats like climate change
- Can Afghanistan’s neighbors help bring stability?
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