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Bloggingheads.tv videos — April 2022
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Apr 15, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- The NYT commemorates the tenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death
- What really happened between Martin and George Zimmerman?
- How John’s relationship with The Root frayed
- Learning from the O.J. Simpson case
- Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on the big and small screen
- Where are the consequences for those who get it wrong?
- Remembering Scott Joplin
Apr 12, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Marianne Williamson
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Where did Marianne get the confidence to run for president?
- What childhood travels taught Marianne about people
- How “A Course in Miracles” transformed Marianne’s life
- Can unconditional love save our species?
- Changing individual consciousness vs. changing policy
- Liberation through surrender
- Marianne: Think of yourself as one of civilization’s immune cells
- If you want change, get better at forgiveness
- What exactly would a “Department of Peace” do?
- Is Marianne eyeing a 2024 presidential re-run?
Apr 8, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey’s French election update
- What Macron and Biden (should) have learned re: Ukraine
- Bob’s brilliant idea for a Biden ceasefire proposal
- Bob vs. Anne Applebaum on negotiating with Russia
- How prolonging the war could make Putin more dangerous
- Will Elon Musk end Twitter’s reign of blue-check terror?
- Is AOC the 2024 candidate we’ve been waiting for?
- Bob comes to collect on his New Year’s covid prediction
- Disney’s “niche sexuality” promotion and other signs of Dem midterm doom
- Sarah Palin—and her totally human hands—run for congress
- Parrot Room preview: Bob and Mickey agree in disagreeing with a recent Richard Hanania essay, David McCormick campaign update, Jan. 6 seven hour gap discussion part two, are electric cars really the future?, the Tiger Woods comeback, mystery Ukrainian soldier rabbit hole, William Burns memoir, exercising cognitive empathy for Trump, Bob’s underappreciated Will Smith take, and does Ray Dalio pass Mickey’s BS test?
Apr 8, 2022 —
Glenn Loury et al
The Glenn Show
- Some unspeakable truths
- Are comics now afraid to speak their minds onstage?
- The difference between telling the truth and getting a laugh
- Can jokes actually do harm?
- Nikki Jax on comedy and trans issues
- Who actually “cancels” comics, audiences or corporations?
- Sam Jay on artistic freedom and mob mentality
- Q&A: I’m worried people won’t understand that my one-woman show is satire. What should I do?
- Q&A: Does comedy have real power or is it ‘just jokes’?
- Q&A: Do comics sometimes inadvertently reinforce wrongheaded points of view?
- Q&A: Why are Ivy Leaguers so unfunny?
- Q&A: Are college campuses inhospitable environments for comedy?
- Q&A: What got Roland suspended at Harvard?
- Q&A: Does the general public need social media training?
- Q&A: Is there a way to stop corporations from folding to social media pressure campaigns?
Apr 6, 2022 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt’s hair transitions from “’80s hair metal” to “’90s skate punk”
- Matt: The right’s “groomer” slur is over the line
- Is there a QAnon element behind Florida’s controversial education law?
- Bill: Culture war conflicts in public schools are inevitable
- Have Supreme Court confirmation hearings permanently devolved into tit-for-tat recrimination?
- What’s worse: summarily blocking judicial appointments or smearing judicial nominees?
- The fault lines revealed by a 6-3 Supreme Court
Apr 5, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Joe Cirincione
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob asks Joe: What are the chances this war goes nuclear?
- Joe lays out Russia’s and America’s nuclear arsenals
- What would make Putin roll the nuclear dice?
- Why atrocities in Bucha could make for a longer, bloodier war
- Joe: The US withdrawal from Cold War-era treaties led to the current nuclear arms race
- How US foreign policy laid the ground for Putin’s invasion
- Bob searches for silver linings. Joe sees a darkening cloud.
- Assessing the Biden administration’s foreign policy record
Apr 1, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey admits he was wrong about everything
- Four takes on the Chris Rock-Will Smith Oscars incident
- Bob: Biden shouldn’t be riffing about regime change
- The Russian redeployment in Ukraine
- Attack of the (alleged) ATV-riding Ukrainian techies
- Will Biden try to draw out the war or push for a deal?
- The roadblocks standing in the way of a peace deal in Ukraine
- Mickey: The press is going easy on Biden because the alternative is Kamala
- Will Mitt Romney make Joe Manchin irrelevant?
- The growing movement to restore standardized testing in California schools
- Parrot Room preview: Should Mickey get the fourth Covid vaccine shot, the Bob Saget saga, Eric Schmidt takes over huge chunks of the government, ringing the dinner bell for the extraterrestrials, Eric Garcetti’s aborted ambassadorship to India, a survey of international elections, the Vladimir Putin bio, Bob’s two theories about what was going on in Will Smith’s head, and the gaps in Trump’s January 6 phone records
Apr 1, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Sam Harris
The Glenn Show
- The principle that race shouldn’t matter and the fact that it does
- The high stakes of affirmative action
- In defense of Charles Murray
- Are there facts we’re better off not knowing?
- When does affirmative action make sense and when is it counterproductive?
- Is belief in God irrational?
- Suffering and the illusion of self
- Finding meaning in secular community
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