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Mar 24, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the media’s treatment of mass shootings, the prospects for gun control legislation, and the future of the filibuster.
Mar 19, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey breaks down the Clubhouse experience
- The Biden administration riles Russia, North Korea, and China in the space of a few days
- China’s surveillance state is creepy, but is it a threat to the U.S.?
- Mickey has some incredible PR advice for Biden
- Parrot Room NFTs: What could go wrong?
- How to use fearmongering to sell an infrastructure bill
- Mickey explains the asylum process
- A vaccine-related correction
- Parrot Room preview: Bob tells the bear hunting joke, Mickey flirts with cancellation, the Substack controversy
Mar 19, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- The contentious origins of Glenn and John’s relationship
- Cancellations at Georgetown and racial disparities in academic performance
- What is to blame for racial disparities in academic performance?
- The quality-fit tradeoff and the mismatch effect
- Is racism widespread in American universities?
- Cornel West’s departure from Harvard
Mar 18, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the challenges facing immigration reform, the status of the filibuster, the prospects for the Democratic agenda, and the threats from Mitch McConnell.
Mar 16, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Julia Galef
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Revisiting the Slate Star Codex-New York Times controversy
- Julia’s critique of the Times’ SSC piece
- Disentangling the Rationalists from the “Dark Enlightenment”
- What should “Scott Alexander” have done differently?
- The origins of the Rationalist community
- What is Bayesianism?
- Do the Rationalists overlap with the Intellectual Dark Web?
- Overreacting to neo-reactionaries
- Julia’s forthcoming book, The Scout Mindset
Mar 12, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Is Gavin Newsom mishandling vaccination in California?
- Troubling historical analogues in Biden’s Middle East strategy
- Mickey stands athwart welfare expansion, yelling, “I’m not so sure”
- The “cancellation” of Andrew Cuomo
- The Blob strikes back against foreign policy realists
- Joe Manchin walks the line on the filibuster
- Mickey: Biden is planning to open the border
- Trump: Hungry for power or starved for attention?
- Parrot Room preview: Andrew Cuomo and #MeToo, Bob tries to coax Mickey off the Tucker Carlson bandwagon
Mar 12, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner
The Glenn Show
Mar 11, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jacques Berlinerblau
Culturally Determined
- Jacques’s essay on race in Philip Roth’s fiction
- Roth and Updike, compare and contrast
- Was Roth always totally in control of his powers?
- How Roth depicted the Newark riots
- Portnoy’s Complaint and offensive humor
- Will we be reading Roth in 30 years?
- Roth’s fictional (and actual) treatment of women
- Reading the reviews of the new authorized Roth biography
Mar 10, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the political aftermath of the American Rescue Plan, whether we are heading for a showdown over the filibuster, if Senate Republican retirements help Trump, and if monthly child payments will be made permanent.
Mar 9, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Kevin Scott
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Kevin’s journey from rural Virginia to Silicon Valley
- How Kevin applied AI to Google ads
- What goes on inside deep neural networks
- Managing AI’s disruption of the means of production
- How AI can turn zero-sum games into non-zero-sum games
- Creating more fulfilling work through automation
- How to align AI development with the public good
- An engineer’s paean to the liberal arts
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