22 December 2025
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Jan 17, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff
The Glenn Show
- Larry’s new paper on the financial crisis, “The Big Con”
- Challenging the standard story of what caused the Great Recession
- Larry on The Big Short: “Factually it’s completely wrong”
- Larry: Banks should be run like mutual funds
- Glenn asks: Isn’t leverage good?
- Larry’s ideas for fixing the banking industry
Jan 7, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Christina Hoff Sommers
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob denies Christina’s charge of “benevolent sexism”
- Christina’s critique of mainstream feminist philosophy
- Christina: The Intellectual Dark Web is about fighting cultural authoritarianism
- Bob: The Intellectual Dark Web is a tribe
- Is mainstream feminism opposed to the liberal tradition?
- The political valence of gender differences
- Christina on “fainting couch feminism”
- Is the SJW battle mostly a generational thing?
- Bob says the IDW’s embrace of Ben Shapiro is uncritical and telling
Jan 2, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Reviewing Christmas 2018
- Did Elizabeth Warren miss her window?
- Bill: Why I don’t count Warren out
- Is the shutdown moving from boring to a crisis?
- Will gravity reassert itself on high-flying Donald Trump?
- Biden’s advantages
- The fight between Pelosi and the left over PAYGO rules
- Romney’s WaPo op-ed rubs Matt the wrong way
Dec 28, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey: The best thing Trump’s done is limit illegal immigration
- Bob: The best thing Trump’s done is steer NAFTA to the left
- The worst things Trump did this year
- The best and worst Trump appointments
- The best and worst pro- and anti-Trump columnists
- The year in just and unjust firings
- A close reading of Trump’s Santa phone call
Dec 26, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Meghan Daum
Culturally Determined
- Meghan’s essay on the Intellectual Dark Web, “Nuance: A Love Story”
- How Bloggingheads led Meghan to the IDW
- The Rubin Report, the IDW’s salon room
- Why Meghan described IDWers as her “new friends”
- Adam Carolla, Howard Stern, and the spirit of transgression
- Why Jordan Peterson arouses such passions
- Is the IDW just a way to avoid confronting Trump?
- Has the word “fuck” lost its bite?
Dec 18, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Ruth Graham
Culturally Determined
- Ruth’s podcast about Ruby Ridge, Standoff
- The key mistakes the Weavers and the government made
- Vicki Weaver, the driving force behind the family’s radical beliefs
- How the crisis on Ruby Ridge escalated and was resolved
- Comparing the ’90s militia movement and today’s far right
- What lessons did the government learn about standoffs?
- The nation fell in love with Sully, George H.W. Bush’s devoted dog…
- …and then the nation got mad at Ruth for popping the Sully bubble
Dec 17, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Ivo Daalder
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Ivo’s new book, The Empty Throne
- Trump’s foreign policy: zero-sum and transactional
- What is NATO for these days, anyway?
- The hubris of Clinton and Bush vs. the caution of Obama
- Bob: It’s not like the US was playing by the rules pre-Trump
- Did the US go beyond the UN mandate in Libya?
- Did Syria lead to Trump?
- The wrong way to deal with China’s rise
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