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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Meir Javedanfar (Al-Monitor, The Iran-Israel Observer)
- Iran’s new president wishes Jews a Happy New Year . 00:56
- Do Israelis want a US strike against Syria? . 05:49
- The precedent a Syrian intervention could set for Iran . 09:18
- Israel’s best-case scenario for Syria . 14:31
- Should the US work with Iran to solve the Syrian conflict? . 21:24
- Rouhani vs. the hardliners . 29:08
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Robert Wright
Meir Javedanfar
Robert Wright
Meir Javedanfar
Recorded:Sep 6
Posted:Sep 7, 2013
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Worldwise | Sep 7, 2013 | Robert Wright & Meir Javedanfar
Culturally Determined
The gothic and the sentimental in recent American history
Book critic Christian Lorentzen discusses his recent essay using literary analysis to understand the Trump and Biden eras.
The Wright Show
The crackdown in Russia
Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss how Alexey Navalny’s return to Russia and the Belarusian political crisis led to Russia’s most recent crackdown on political freedoms.
Culturally Determined
The failures of Hebrew School education
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Rabbi Ari Hart about Jewish religious instruction in America.
The Wright Show
We come in peace
In a conversation with Mickey Kaus, Robert Wright argues that humans are in trouble if aliens don’t show up sooner or later.
The Glenn Show
In praise of Black humanity
Glenn Loury, Cornel West, and Teodros Kiros discuss the global cultural impact of Black Americans and the problems of internalized despair that they still confront.
The DMZ
What is it about Kamala?
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss why Vice President Kamala Harris seems to attract an outsized amount of attention and criticism.
MeaningofLife.tv
Dissecting Darwin
Robert Wright and anthropologist Agustín Fuentes, author of a controversial article on The Descent of Man, try to unpack Darwin’s attitudes on race and genocide.
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Is “information” the key to quantum mechanics?
John Horgan and science writer Philip Ball discuss the roles of consciousness and calculation in quantum mechanics.
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Tea Party 2.0?
In a conversation with Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus makes the case for an anti-woke Tea Party.
The DMZ
Why is Trump so bad at blogging?
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