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Bloggingheads.tv videos — December 2019
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Dec 30, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- If Trump wins re-election, will Democrats “go berserk,” as Mickey says?
- The top 1% vs. the next 29%
- What are Bernie’s chances?
- Bob: Negative partisanship is the decade’s most alarming psycho-political trend
- Mickey floats some UFO theories
- An under-the-radar scandal at the world’s chemical weapons watchdog agency
- Bob and Mickey mystified by influence of Twitter elites on presidential campaign
- Silicon Valley: What’s not to hate?
- The past decade’s glimmer of hope: growing awareness of cognitive biases
- Who’s crazier, Bob or Mickey?
Dec 23, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos
The Glenn Show
- Peter explains how stop-and-frisk went too far
- Who or what deserves credit for NYC’s massive murder decline?
- Peter: Reducing poverty is not the way to reduce crime
- Are cops reaping the whirlwind?
- The aftermath of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Laquan McDonald in Chicago
- Criminal justice reform and the potential backlash
Dec 20, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Dominic Johnson
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Dominic’s paper, “Bad World: The Negativity Bias in International Politics”
- Why politicians overestimate threats to national security
- The cognitive bias of “loss avoidance” as fuel for war
- Do international actors give too much weight to past failures?
- World War I as a case study in negativity bias
- Arguments against Dominic’s argument
- Can we use our growing knowledge of cognitive biases to avoid unwise conflicts?
Dec 19, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Bill and Matt’s holiday cultural exchange, featuring Adam Sandler
- Fallout between #NeverTrump conservatives and their peers
- Matt: The Democratic majority is the real silent moral majority
- Bill doubts the influence of progressives in the Democratic primaries
- Should Pelosi “slow-walk” the articles of impeachment to the Senate?
- Why Democrats benefit from delaying the impeachment vote
- Biden winning the nomination will help Dems down-ticket (or so says Biden)
Dec 19, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Robert Wright
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob reminisces about the origins of Bloggingheads.tv
- Where The Glenn Show fits into the BhTV ecosystem
- Speech policing, the “n-word,” and the uses of ridicule
- What’s Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism really about?
- Does the IDW care about protecting speech critical of Israel?
- Bob critiques The Trayvon Hoax
- Bob: Be wary of throwing around the word “hoax”
- Quillette accuses Bob of palling around with tyranny apologists
Dec 16, 2019 —
Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Feminine Chaos
- Stationary bike company Peloton’s holiday ad drives the Internet batty
- Does the ad have a secret message?
- Kat: The ad is about spiritual transformation through exercise
- When banal chitchat at holiday parties goes viral
- An era of performative hypersensitivity/outrage
- The gender politics of a $400 Star Wars Dutch oven
Dec 13, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Alan Rusbridger
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Alan’s new book, Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
- Alan on taking over the Guardian in 1995, at the dawn of the web
- Was giving news away for free the “original sin” of online journalism?
- Pros and cons of different media funding models
- The downsides of having lots of subscribers and traffic
- Alan: The British press has failed on Brexit
- A few kinds words about social media
- How the Guardian uses “open journalism”
- Will we soon enter a post-newspaper future?
Dec 12, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Why Biden might make a one-term pledge, like James K. Polk did
- Gaming out Biden’s VP options
- Who will be helped by the Iowa caucuses’ byzantine rules?
- Mayor Pete catches some heat
- How is Biden handling questions about Hunter?
- Matt: Hillary Clinton seems much more likable now
- Why do the black candidates have so little black support?
Dec 10, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- Glenn and John respond to criticism of their discussion of The Trayvon Hoax
- Why Glenn finds the film credible despite its creator’s conspiracy theories
- John: The public didn’t get the full story of Zimmerman’s 911 call
- The case as a forerunner of larger dynamics in American political culture
- Did Zimmerman have a rational prejudice?
- Glenn and John ain’t running away
- What was Trayvon thinking?
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