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Bloggingheads.tv videos — July 2021
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Jul 20, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Eli Lake
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Are democracies better at following international rules than autocracies?
- Eli: The world is better off with America in charge
- Debating US policy toward Cuba
- Bob: What’s the difference between America’s authoritarian allies and its authoritarian enemies?
- Does China see liberal democracies as a threat?
- The virtue of epistemic humility
Jul 19, 2021 —
John Ikenberry & Patrick Porter
- John and Daniel Deudney’s piece, “The Intellectual Foundations of the Biden Revolution”
- Debating FDR’s foreign policy legacy
- Patrick: Projecting power abroad undermines democracy at home
- Is there tension between promoting democracy and fighting climate change?
- John: Biden is trying to reinvent liberalism for a new era
- Should Biden focus on relations with like-minded nations?
- The limits of liberal internationalism in the Middle East
- Is America an empire?
- Assessing Biden’s international efforts to ‘Build Back Better’
Jul 16, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob vows not to get flapped again
- A flood of reporting on the Trump Administration’s last days
- Will the billionaire space race help a wealth tax gain traction?
- Mickey: Democrats will get the soft infrastructure bill passed
- On the question of JD Vance’s degree of Trumpiness
- Mickey: The Child Tax Credit will produce a social disaster
- How Bush made war with Afghanistan unavoidable
- Why are we sanctioning Cuba (or anyone)?
- Parrot Room preview: a sad story from Bob’s youth, the subtext of Bob’s Eric Weinstein piece, further work on the Bret side of the Weinstein equation, an empirical observation about black employees in public-facing jobs, the Aspen Information Disorder Commission, apologies of Abigail Shrier’s book, Ashli Babbitt, Richard Lewontin, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and Mickey’s Law of Success Stories
Jul 16, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
Jul 15, 2021 —
Stephen Wertheim & Thomas Wright
- Assessing Biden’s foreign policy
- How unusual was Trump’s approach to international affairs?
- When should the US be willing to work with authoritarians?
- Tom: Restrainers ignore America’s greatest foreign policy successes
- Does the US need troops in the Middle East?
- Stephen: We need a narrower view of US interests abroad
- Two approaches to democracy promotion
Jul 14, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt: Worry about electoral subversion, not voting access
- Bill’s indirect solution to electoral subversion
- Is the left responsible for the culture war’s escalation?
- The populist realignment over the rights of business owners
- Will CRT in the schools provide significant political wins for Republicans?
Jul 13, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Timothy Nguyen
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Tim’s academic background
- Tim responds to Eric Weinstein’s claims against him and his co-author
- How Tim first came into contact with Weinstein
- Tim: Weinstein is evading our critiques of his theory
- What would a “theory of everything” require and accomplish?
- Weinstein’s attempt at a theory of everything
- The Shiab operator and its problems
- Tim’s further objections to Geometric Unity
- The “aesthetic wish” for a unified field theory
- The difference between a mathematical and a physical theory of everything
- What frustrates Tim about Weinstein’s presentation of GU
- The irony of Weinstein trying to squelch Tim’s critique
- Pondering the crackpot question
Jul 12, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Bessner
Culturally Determined
- The absurd exercise of ranking presidential greatness
- Aryeh: We all agree on Lincoln and Washington, but then it’s a fight
- Daniel: George W. Bush was much worse than Trump
- Did America react hysterically to the storming of the Capitol?
- Ghostbusters as a cultural expression of Reagan’s America
- Nostalgia and cultural decadence
- Critical race theory, 1619, and national mythmaking
- Daniel’s new podcast, “American Prestige”
Jul 9, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Branson aims to beat Bezos to space
- J.D. Vance flirts with delegitimizing the 2020 election
- Tucker suggests cameras in classrooms to root out CRT
- Bob makes progress toward a Unified Theory of the Weinsteins
- Is a new Alzheimer’s drug worth the astronomical cost?
- Is Haiti paying for Trump’s belligerence toward Venezuela?
- Why is China clamping down on a big Chinese ride-hailing company?
- Mickey: Democrats will abandon the bipartisan infrastructure bill
- Covid cases are up in the US. Will deaths follow?
- Searching for insight into Trump’s mindset on January 6
- Parrot Room preview: A Hunter Biden development, Big Tech’s possible bias against J.D. Vance, Glenn Loury and Charles Murray’s recent conversation, Republicans oppose beefing up the IRS, a Jeffrey Epstein-Marty Peretz connection, Bob continues to hypothesize on the Weinsteins, Fellini’s La Strada, even more JD Vance, and Trump’s Waterloo
Jul 9, 2021 —
Glenn Loury & Lawrence Mead
The Glenn Show
- Intro
- Larry’s view of Western and non-Western culture
- Is African American culture “non-Western”?
- Larry: “Freedom is a threat” to Black and Latino families
- African American individualism after emancipation
- The “paradox” of Asian academic success
- What are the origins of European political development?
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