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Bloggingheads.tv videos — May 2020
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May 29, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- A return to “root causes” for racial unrest?
- Bob: The worst thing anyone in America does every day can go viral
- Mickey wonders whether the pandemic is burning out on its own
- 100K deaths but anti-lockdown forces are on the march
- Is a cold war with China now inevitable?
- Bob’s advice for Biden: Don’t be feisty
- Jeff Sessions tests whether GOP voters will believe anything Trump says
- Is Trump’s threat to hobble social media companies just a bluff?
- Viewer feedback and a potential theme song
May 29, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
May 28, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Is Biden’s “you ain’t black” his “47%” moment?
- Should the left be pressuring Biden or going easy on him?
- The stars continue to align for Kamala to get VP
- Will Trump try to pull off a six-feet-apart political convention?
- Evaluating the pessimism on both Dem and GOP sides
- Race, police brutality, and smartphones
- Matt: Biden shows how “strong and wrong” works
May 26, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Chris Arnade
Culturally Determined
- Chris’s cancelled tour of “back row” places in America
- Chris on class and the pandemic: “Everything screws the poor”
- The geographic spread of the disease
- Chris draws parallels between Trump and Hugo Chavez
- Aryeh: Boring grandpa Joe will beat crazy grandpa Donald
- How Trump co-opted the GOP establishment
- The Republican senator who loves Chris’s book
- Can a right populism succeed without xenophobia and racism?
May 22, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey betrays Bob on Twitter
- With some states reopening, what have we learned?
- Debating “decoupling” from China
- Trump fires IGs; Bob frets, Mickey is blasé
- Tara Reade’s credibility takes a hit
- Were the layoffs at The Atlantic less than meets the eye?
- Bob’s media criticism, pro- and anti-Trump editions
- Mickey rebuts Adam Serwer on Trump, race, and the virus
- Why are there no anti-immigration liberals?
- Why Bob doesn’t want Klob to have the VP job
- Mickey’s Devs mea culpa
- Viewer mail
- Grading Ben Smith’s NYT takedown of Ronan Farrow
May 21, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- The worst person to ever be president is…
- More evidence that old white people like Joe Biden
- Is an electoral blowout coming?
- Matt: Trump is unable to define Biden
- Breaking news: Karl Rove is advising Trump
- Have we overreacted or underreacted to the virus?
- Veepstakes: Does Biden want an heir apparent?
- Why did Amash drop out of the Libertarian Party race?
May 19, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Ezra Klein
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Ezra’s new book, Why We’re Polarized
- How ideology became identity
- Could Trump have realigned American politics?
- Ezra: All politics is identity politics
- Why “this person is not like us” is a way to go viral
- Why the two political parties stopped cooperating
- Ezra wants to see more small-d democratization in America
- When winning is losing
- Trump’s one weird trick for hacking the media
May 18, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Amy Wax
The Glenn Show
- Amy wants to starve the higher ed beast
- Do Americans need affirmative action for graduate school?
- Glenn and Amy criticize undergraduate instruction
- Amy: “There’s a certain degree of feminization that is going on as well”
- How should students be graded during the pandemic?
- Amy explains what we should and shouldn’t be doing during the pandemic
- The Wuhan lab theory
May 15, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Will the pandemic inspire terrorists to engineer biological weapons?
- The answer to last week’s riddle revealed
- Debating Biden’s chances of remaining in the race
- Mickey’s theory of the Michael Flynn affair
- The tribal dynamics of the pandemic
- Whither Mickey’s hopes for social equality amidst the pandemic?
- Mickey and Bob argue about the TV show Devs
May 14, 2020 —
Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Feminine Chaos
- “Cool girl” food writer Alison Roman sparks racial hullabaloo
- Crass, classist, xenophobic…racist?
- Kat: A lot of the anti-Romanism is “why not me?” resentment
- The sorrows of supermodel Chrissy Teigen
- Cultural erasure, childhood resentments, and coconut curry
- Would you actually want a “Nancy Meyers kitchen”?
- Rants of the week: Ms. Monopoly and postpartum sex
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