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August 2021
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Aug 16, 2021 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rebecca Panovka
Culturally Determined
Rebecca’s essay on how Hannah Arendt was misread during the Trump years
A capsule biography of Arendt
The real meaning of Arendt’s famous line about “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule”
Rebecca: Trump’s lies were mostly “boardroom bullshit”
Are Trump’s post-election machinations approaching “big lie” territory?
The banality of evil vs. grotesquerie of Trump
“Post-truth” in the run-up to the Iraq War
The banality of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld
Rebecca cofounded
The Drift
as an antidote to the monolithic media narrative
Aug 13, 2021 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Meet the new virus, same as the old virus
The confounding Covid numbers coming out of Florida
Just a couple of cowards talking about JD Vance
The Biden administration’s lackluster messaging on the Delta variant
Hunter Biden faces some deep questions from a prostitute
Mickey: “Democratic paranoia” about new voting laws is actually about the filibuster
Bob: The current Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could be worse
Dems are so close to, yet so far from, passing infrastructure
Does Andrew Cuomo have a political future?
Parrot Room preview: Bob floats a new Grand Unified Theory of the Weinsteins, some Jeffrey Epstein news involving a doll, the Muscle Shoals doc, Trump’s wall, Glenn Greenwald gets ready to Rumble, Bob’s half-thought about vaccines, the 1/6 commission, and
The Best and the Brightest
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Aug 13, 2021 — Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
Does systemic racism still exist in the US?
Addressing “racial inequities” rather than “systemic racism”
John: “The idea that modern colleges and universities are racist spaces is false”
Race and the academic job market
Why does anger persist even after progress toward racial redress?
The (possible) origins of the recent wokeness wave
Finding room for disagreement
Aug 12, 2021 — Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
Bill’s murky definition of “on vacation”
Mourning the loss of another
Night Court
alum
Can moderate Dems get the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed?
Matt makes the conservative case for allowing local mask mandates
Bill: Cuomo’s resignation shows Dems can police their own
Aug 12, 2021 — Michael Swaine & Orville Schell
How much can the US influence Chinese policy?
Who is to blame for current US-China tensions?
Orville: There is a real ideological clash between the US and China
Michael: Washington can’t resolve the Hong Kong crisis
Balancing cooperation and competition
What threat does China pose to the US?
Demilitarizing the South China Sea
To what extent should the US “decouple” its economy from China’s?
Improving crisis management
Aug 10, 2021 — Robert Wright & Adam Weinstein
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Adam’s military service in Afghanistan
How much popular support does the Taliban have?
Adam: If the US didn’t withdraw there would be no end in sight
Why is the Afghan military struggling to hold off the Taliban?
A primer on Afghanistan’s largest ethnic groups
What are the chances of a political settlement?
Will withdrawing from Afghanistan bring terrorism to America?
Adam: Withdrawing helps the US focus on existential threats like climate change
Can Afghanistan’s neighbors help bring stability?
Aug 9, 2021 — Connor Echols & Jemima Pierre
A primer on Haitian history
America’s longstanding habit of interfering in Haiti
The 2010 earthquake and its political fallout
Jemima: Most Haitians see the US as an imperial power
What we know about President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination
Jemima: Haiti can’t hold new elections under the current government
Ending on a (somewhat) hopeful note
Aug 9, 2021 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Leigh Stein
Culturally Determined
Leigh’s new poetry collection,
What to Miss When
How the collection emerged from lockdown
Leigh’s poem “Simulation Theory,” which was inspired by a MeaningofLife.tv episode
Leigh’s essay, “Sympathy for the Girlboss”
Women taking down other women in the name of feminism
Michael Jordan vs. Lebron James as a marker of generational change
Is a better version of the Internet possible?
Aug 6, 2021 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Mickey restrains himself
What’s Cuomo’s sex scandal strategy?
Bob’s encounters with Cuomo the elder
Was Bob too optimistic about the Delta variant?
Simon Biles sticks the landing
The implications of China’s crackdown on tech companies
The right’s natalist schism
Mickey: For Tucker, talking Orbán is a way to avoid talking Trump
Eric Weinstein promises (and threatens) a big reveal
Parrot Room preview: More Eric Weinstein talk, a Jeffrey Epstein update, Biden’s eviction moratorium, emperor penguins, the California recall, the worst program Mickey’s ever heard on NPR,
The Best and the Brightest
, censored parrots, and why there’s no anti-Biden Tea Party
Aug 6, 2021 — Glenn Loury & Lara Bazelon
The Glenn Show
How Glenn and Lara each approach systemic racism
Lara: The Yutico Briley case exposes the roots of systemic racism
Trying to understand the equities and inequities of crime and punishment
The differing perspectives on justice involved in the Briley case
Are progressive criminal justice policies having an impact?
Lara’s new novel,
A Good Mother
Glenn and Lara’s experiences of parenthood
Why Glenn really left Harvard’s economics department
Glenn’s rocky road as a father
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