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May 14, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Sylvia Bennett-Stone
The Glenn Show
- The founding of Voices of Black Mothers United
- How the criminal justice system failed Sylvia’s daughter
- Sylvia’s work: advocacy, community intervention, and positive policing
- What is the role of systems and structures in street violence?
- How Voices of Black Mothers United is branching out
- Sylvia’s book, Mind Fields: A Healing Journey to Survive the Murder of a Child
May 13, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt finds a hero in Liz Cheney
- Should Democrats praise Cheney?
- How Biden missteps could provide an opening for Trump
- Are we about to enter a prolonged period of inflation?
- Elise Stefanik has some competition
- Bill: Not all Republicans are insurrectionists
- Finding middle ground on infrastructure spending
May 10, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Ben Burgis
Culturally Determined
- Ben’s new book, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns
- Joe Rogan, Louis CK, and the online left’s moralistic overreactions
- A material analysis of how Twitter distorts political movements
- Stalin nostalgia, guillotine gifs, and other performative radicalness
- Critiquing left rhetoric on criminal justice
- Aryeh: Cancel culture is neoliberal
- Ben: The left has made itself vulnerable to false accusations
- A socialist assessment of Biden’s first 100 days
May 7, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey sports an unsettling new look
- The Trumpist revolt against Liz Cheney
- Tucker Carlson damages his brand
- Where will babies come from?
- Bob: Trump is responsible for our failure to reach herd immunity
- Who’s at fault in the Gates divorce, Jeffrey Epstein or Clippy?
- The Justice Department indicts the Minneapolis cops
- Bob lauds Biden for waiving vaccine patents
- More evidence for the “lab leak” COVID theory
- Parrot Room preview: the menace of Menendez, Bidenomics, Twitter’s tip jar, Mickey’s psychoanalysis progresses (or at least continues), The Sleepwalkers, Woke Disneyland, Zuckerberg’s moral compass, Bob worries about millennials, and Mickey continues to gaslight Bob about the hair
Apr 30, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Biden’s $10 trillion Chevy Malibu
- How much of Biden’s agenda will actually get through Congress?
- Bob frowns on Biden’s nationalistic framing
- Tucker Carlson’s bizarre mask rant
- The Chauvin conviction’s deterrent value
- Human Rights Watch declares Israel an apartheid state
- Is there a Biden doctrine?
- Parrot Room preview: Bob continues to psychoanalyze Mickey, the first episode of Slow Burn, Rudy, Rudin, the Oscars, justice and utilitarianism, Mickey has a run in with the cops, Kerry and Iran, and Mickey’s theory of West L.A.
Apr 30, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Nikita Petrov
The Glenn Show
- The impact of the Glenn Show and new initiatives
- How to reach out to the Glenn Show: thework@glennshow.com
- The current climate: how afraid are people and how afraid should they be?
- The current climate: how afraid are people and how afraid should they be?
- Seeking to engage productively with opinions we may not understand
- Glenn’s interactions with his graduate and undergraduate students
Apr 29, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Laura Marsh
Culturally Determined
- Accusations of sexual assault against Philip Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey
- Laura’s early negative review of the biography
- How Bailey justified Roth’s mistreatment of women
- Aryeh worries about an alleged rapist framing the historical record
- Laura argues against the “this changes everything” reaction
- Criticizing the actions of Norton, the book’s publisher
- What Laura found in Roth’s novels that she didn’t expect
- What do we do with the fact that many great authors were awful people?
Apr 28, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss Biden’s upcoming address to Congress, whether Biden will pivot toward bipartisanship, if Democrats should fear gerrymandering, and whether Margaret Sanger was a racist.
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