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Bloggingheads.tv videos — July 2021
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Jul 30, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey protests the sexualization of Bloggingheads
- The tribal response to Simone Biles’ troubles
- Mickey: The left puts too much blame on unvaccinated Trumpers
- Bob campaigns for vaccine czar
- How should Biden talk about the Delta variant?
- Who can beat Trump in 2024?
- JD Vance really wants you to have kids
- Bob wants to get rid of the news
- Mickey: Sinema should sink the child tax credit
- Elon Musk’s fantasy world
- Bob is hiring!
- Parrot Room preview: Into the metaverse, Mickey’s theory on Gawker, Van Jones gets rich, Mickey’s take on Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau, how woke are the Olympics, sexism in trees, the joke Mickey told Jackie Mason, and a new report on a 2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria
Jul 30, 2021 —
The Life & Work of Thomas Sowell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley)
The Glenn Show
- Comparing the legacies of Thomas Sowell and George Schuyler
- Making the case for Sowell’s significance
- The task of the popularizer
- Why Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions is important
- The norm of inter-group disparity
- What happened to Glenn’s generation of heterodox Black intellectuals?
- Why it’s hard to be conservative in academia
- Where is the left-wing critique of progressive racial politics?
Jul 28, 2021 —
Connor Echols & Achin Vanaik
- Contextualizing the rise of the authoritarian right in India
- Why are Prime Minister Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party so successful?
- What would it take for the BJP to lose power?
- Achin: Modi has accelerated India’s shift toward the West
- Hindu nationalism at home and abroad
- How US-China tensions could fuel an India-Pakistan nuclear arms race
- Why did India get nukes in the first place?
- Modi’s contradictory stance on vaccines
Jul 27, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Rania Khalek
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Last year’s Beirut port explosion
- The roots of Lebanon’s economic crisis
- Sectarianism and the dueling narratives of the Lebanese civil war
- Why did Hezbollah intervene in Syria?
- Rania: US policy in Syria helped lead to the rise of ISIS
- What if outside powers had stayed out of Syria?
- The effect of US sanctions on Syria
- How popular is Assad’s government?
- Why Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia intervened in the conflict
Jul 23, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob and Mickey enter the Cone of Silence
- Mickey: The narrative about vaccination has collapsed
- Should Bob worry about Eric Weinstein’s latest weird tweet?
- Are we stuck with Covid forever?
- Mickey: If Americans start to see work as optional, migrants will replace them
- The Child Tax Credit’s surprisingly bad polling
- Appraising the Cleveland baseball team’s new name
- A new Gallup opinion poll has some bad news about race relations
- Mickey doesn’t buy Bob’s take on the Pegasus spyware expose
- The inquiries and (alleged) conspiracies of January 6
- Why blame Tom Barrack when you could blame Jared?
- Biden screws Ukraine over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
- Parrot Room preview: What bad buses in Philly teach us about government overreach, the California recall, Jeffrey Goldberg in hot water, Nick Kristof eyes a run for office, Sean Hannity’s bowel problems—and ours, Eric Weinstein’s tweet, game theory among ethnic elites, and the January 6 prosecutions
Jul 23, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein
The Glenn Show
- Why Richard is trying to stop the construction of the Obama Presidential Center
- Richard’s stymied attempt to stop alterations to Chicago’s Soldiers Field
- Raising questions about the OPC’s environmental impact
- Richard’s account of critical race theory
- A legal history of racial redress in the US
- Richard: Biden exhibits less comity than Trump did
Jul 22, 2021 —
Nikita Petrov & John Horgan
Psychopolitica
- Are we the repetition of our fathers?
- John’s horror of nirvana
- Putin owns a float tank
- Putin as a collective hallucination
- Putin as Nietzsche’s Superman
- Hemingway’s version of masculinity
- Dictators’ aesthetic taste, and the tragedy of never learning what you like
- A morality based on the premise that ideas are alive
- Good and bad ideas
- Teaser for the next episode
Jul 21, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis explore the history of infrastructure legislation, the prospects of the bipartisan infrastructure deal, and the truth about Teddy Roosevelt and San Juan Hill.
Jul 21, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & DougJ
Culturally Determined
- The origins of Doug’s “New York Times Pitchbot” project
- The “In this Ohio diner…” trope
- The NYT’s de facto national status and the hollowing out of local journalism
- The Opinion page’s lack of ideological and geographic diversity
- Aryeh: The NYT’s real tribe is the wealthy
- Cillizza and Greenwald, Doug’s bêtes noires/muses
- With Biden in power, a return to concern trolling by the media
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