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Bloggingheads.tv videos — November 2021
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Nov 12, 2021 —
Glenn Loury &
The Glenn Show
- “Tolstoy is mine. Dickens is mine. Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein are mine”
- “Our Americanness is much more important than our blackness”
- Conservatives cannot go back to “business as usual” on race.
- A conservative prescription for persistent racial inequality
- The roots of racial disparity
- Putting police killings of black Americans into perspective
- From white guilt to white backlash
- The “lie” that the American Dream doesn’t apply to blacks
- Black people “must seize equal status”
Nov 11, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- The military history of the DMZ
- Is the judge in the Rittenhouse trial putting his thumb on the scale?
- Matt: Rittenhouse seems like he has delusions of grandeur
- Does the infrastructure vote bode well for bipartisanship?
- Bill: Inflation could become an issue for Dems in 2022
- Matt: It’s not fair to conflate “the left” with the Democrats
Nov 9, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Eli Clifton
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Who pays Eli to “follow the money”?
- Dispelling illusions about US foreign policy
- Which think tanks serve foreign interests?
- Bob tells an anecdote about a naive prominent journalist
- The hidden influence of the weapons industry
- Did money from Saudi Arabia and UAE help get America involved in Yemen?
- How foreign actors buy influence in Washington
- Eli’s Twitter thread thriller
Nov 8, 2021 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Justin E. H. Smith
Culturally Determined
- Justin: It is morally imperative to not say true things on social media
- Why Justin loves Substack
- Pros and cons of writing without an editor
- AOC’s real audience at the Met Gala
- Are social media editors purposefully riling up the mob?
- Sally Rooney and Israel, the Twitter Discourse perfect storm
- The “false representative class” of online pundits
Nov 6, 2021 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Charlie Daniels chat
- Glenn Youngkin rides the education issue to victory in Virginia
- Matt: Donald Trump is to Republicans what MSNBC pundits are to Dems
- How should Youngkin govern?
- Would expanded voting rights benefit Republicans more than Democrats?
- What lesson should Dem legislators draw from the Virgina results?
Nov 5, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob enters the pantheon of world historical philosophers
- Was the Virginia election a referendum on wokeness or social spending?
- The Democrats’ strategy for passing (or at least voting on) infrastructure
- Have the Virginia results emboldened challengers to Trump?
- Investigating the Russia investigation
- Will Kyle Rittenhouse be acquitted?
- Is Pfizer’s Covid pill a game changer?
- China’s efforts to address inequality and climate change
- Have we reached peak newsletter?
- Clubhouse: So exclusive no one wants to use it anymore
- Parrot Room preview: Jeffrey Epstein news, the lab leak hypothesis, can Joe Manchin get away with driving a Maserati, the future of custom cars, Bob reads a book about Allen Dulles, the unkind things Sam Harris recently said about Bob, the Foundation trilogy TV adaptation, and Walter Kirn’s Blood Will Out
- A very special Walter Kirn mash-up
Nov 5, 2021 —
Say It Loud! (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Randall Kennedy)
The Glenn Show
- Randy: “I feel torn and, frankly, bewildered” about the state of race in the US
- Can we blame Trump for the tenor of racial discourse today?
- Crediting the achievements of black Americans after Emancipation
- Is the criminal justice system as discriminatory as it appears?
- Glenn: We need to deracialize the conversation about policing
- Taking account of culture in debates about racial inequality
- Affirmative action with an asterisk
- Does affirmative action require lowering standards?
Nov 2, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Paul’s new book, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
- Why do we get pleasure from some kinds of suffering?
- The many forms of self-flagellation
- Paul: I don’t think we pursue the good only because it gives us pleasure
- How do we derive meaning from suffering?
- Paul: You cannot have a meaningful life without suffering
- Does Buddhist meditation risk severing us from important relationships with others?
- Is parenting pleasurable?
- Making progress on the hedonic treadmill
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