22 December 2024
Matt K. Lewis (The Daily Beast, MattLewis.org) and Michael Brooks (The Michael Brooks Show, The Majority Report)
On The DMZ, Matt and guest-host Michael discuss a possible Elizabeth Warren presidential run in 2016. Michael thinks that Warren’s outsider status and anti–Wall Street populism could appeal to the zeitgeist on both left and right. But what are the odds of Warren running, let alone being able to defeat Hillary Clinton? Moving to foreign affairs, Michael makes the case for nuclear negotiations with Iran. Can America and Iran put aside their problematic history? Why did France oppose the deal? Plus: Why does Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen still have a job?
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Matt K. Lewis
Michael Brooks
Noam Scheiber’s TNR piece on Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton
Chris Hayes’s book, “Twilight of the Elites”
Michael’s WaPo piece, with Reza Aslan, on Baha’i in Iran
Fresh Air interview with Hooman Majd, author of “The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay”
Richard Cohen’s (latest) controversial column
Aasif Mandvi’s Daily Show piece on Voting Rights Act
The DMZ | Nov 14, 2013 | Matt K. Lewis & Michael Brooks
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
How to End the Ukraine War
Andrew Day and Connor Echols discuss the foreign policy news of the week. In this episode, Day and Echols also discuss how progressives should approach Trump’s foreign policy, and then Anatol Lieven joins to discuss Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
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Marriage on the Rocks
Robert Wright and Conn Carroll, author of the new book Sex and the Citizen, discuss the history of marriage, its current troubles as an institution, and Carroll’s proposals to address them.
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Did the US start the catastrophe in Ukraine?
Scott Horton, author of the new book Provoked, makes the case that it did. From Robert Wright’s NonZero Podcast.
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Syria’s uncertain political future
Robert Wright and Middle East expert Joshua Landis discuss.
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Covid: The Evidence Against Natural Origin
Yuri Deigin of YouthBio Therapeutics, in conversation with Robert Wright, explains why he thinks Covid came from the Wuhan virology lab.
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Was President Biden wrong to pardon his son Hunter?
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom debate the issue.
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Why is so much of the AI community hawkish on China?
Robert Wright and Nathan Labenz, host of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, discuss the question in light of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent ideological self-disclosure.
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Will Trump release the JFK files?
Robert Wright and journalist Jefferson Morley, publisher of the JFK Facts newsletter, discuss.
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Elon vs Bluesky, Jake Paul vs Tyson, AI vs World Peace
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss the Bluesky boom, the Jake Paul-Tyson “fight”, AI’s militaristic turn, and more.
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Will Trump Go Full-On Authoritarian?
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