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Robert Wright (
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,
The Evolution of God
,
Nonzero
,
Why Buddhism Is True
) and Will Wilkinson (
Niskanen Center
,
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,
The Fly Bottle
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The much-discussed report Will co-authored, “The Center Can Hold”
.
00:05
Why Will likes Elizabeth Warren
.
08:59
The criminal justice system is even worse than you think
.
17:30
Why Will is skeptical of Kamala Harris
.
20:57
What population density tells us about America’s political divide
.
24:03
Why do some people, and not others, move to the city?
.
32:08
Personality differences between rural and urban dwellers
.
41:02
Has gerrymandering run its course in Republican strategy?
.
56:40
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The report Will co-authored, “The Center Can Hold”
Will’s NYT piece, “Why Do We Value Country Folk More Than City People?”
Bob’s piece in
Wired
on Trump and global governance
Brink Lindsey and Stevel Teles, “The Captured Economy”
Will’s article in
BigThink
, “Country Music, openness to experience, and the psychology of culture war”
The Wright Show | Feb 4, 2019 | Robert Wright & Will Wilkinson
The DMZ
What’s the big emergency?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the potential effects of Trump’s national emergency order.
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Trump’s Trojan horse
Journalist Max Blumenthal, reporting from Caracas, explains why Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro refused to accept a US aid shipment.
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The Glenn Show
Can we take race out of the criminal justice equation?
Glenn Loury speaks with Kelly Suzanne Saulsberry of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
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What is truth, anyway?
Philosophers Daniel Kaufman and Crispin Sartwell discuss the “true” meaning of truth according to different branches of philosophy.
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The Wright Show
American hypocrisy
How important is moral consistency in foreign policy? Robert Wright and Heather Hurlburt consider.
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Feminine Chaos
Madame Bovary
,
Gone Girl
, and the likeability backlash
Kat Rosenfield and Hillary Kelly discuss the representation of “terrible women” in literature.
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MeaningofLife.tv
How Facebook manipulates us
Douglas Rushkoff, author of the new book Team Human, explains.
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The DMZ
Who survives a public scandal?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s political fate in an era of rapid online news.
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Culturally Determined
A parable about talent
Juliet Lapidos describes the origins of her new novel,
Talent
, which uses the biblical Parable of the Talents as a frame for a literary detective story.
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MeaningofLife.tv
The power of fictional thinking
Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel discuss the essential role of narrative in art, literature, and human life.
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