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May 31, 2022 — Robert Wright & Jonathan Haidt
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Why Jon’s dire Atlantic piece demanded a Bob-response
Are today’s problems typical technological growing pains or alarming signs of demise?
How much blame should social media get for the mess we’re in?
Do today’s progressives recognize social progress?
Jon: Productive “managed conflict” has become nearly impossible
Will self-help save the planet?
Can America survive without cultural common ground?
Will the flip side of intranational tension be international cohesion?
The three changes Jon thinks could save American society
May 27, 2022 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
California voting information materials fail the cognitive empathy test
Will the latest mass shooting spur effective federal gun legislation?
Mickey: Schumer will learn from Obama’s post-Sandy Hook political mistakes
Are elites and geniuses more juvenile than the rest of us?
Bob asks: Why is Western media so slow to report bad news from Ukraine?
Do we really know “what the Ukrainian people want”?
The status of the US’s “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan becomes more ambiguous
Mickey: Americans’ enthusiasm for funding Ukraine is cooling
Trump’s Republican bêtes noires win in Georgia
Parrot Room preview: Franklin Foer’s role in the Sussman case,
Severance
, Kellyanne Conway’s book, Elon Musk’s tweets, Peter Thiel the kingmaker, the Bush dynasty vs. the Clinton dynasty, Luke Russert reopens the national service debate, monkeypox, the Institute for the Study of War’s role in the Ukraine bad news lag, the Iran nuclear deal, the
Dead End
podcast, and
Station Eleven
May 27, 2022 — Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
John: We need a word besides “racism” to distinguish racial inequities from what happened in Buffalo
Glenn: I don’t agree with everything Tucker Carlson says, but he’s not a racist
Demographic change is happening in the US, but how should we understand it?
What does Tucker think he’s doing and what is he actually doing?
Glenn: We should be able to freely debate immigration policy without evoking racial tropes
Glenn accepts the Bradley Prize at the organization’s gala
How a white woman’s condescension stopped John from reading Walter Mosley
Can we disentangle incidents like the Buffalo shooting from ideology?
A correction from Glenn
May 25, 2022 — Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
What does it mean that Trump was humiliated in Georgia?
But what about Herschel Walker?
Is Lauren Boebert in trouble?
What does TX-28 and OR-05 mean for the Democrats?
Is the Bush dynasty truly over?
What’s left to say about mass shootings?
May 24, 2022 — Robert Wright & Suzanne Schneider
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Suzanne’s new book, The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism
The ongoing War on Terror in the age of the new Cold War
Jihadism as a modern phenomenon
The recent evolution of the doctrine of jihad
What about modernity are jihadists – and US right-wingers – reacting against?
Suzanne: To thwart authoritarians, build robust democratic communities
Who is fighting the liberal status quo?
Are Democrats too idealistic?
Dispelling the myth of primordial ethnic tribalism
May 20, 2022 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Bob: Tucker Carlson’s replacement rhetoric is intentionally inflammatory
Is the rhetoric of “transformation” analogous to that of “replacement”?
Two NYT headlines that trigger Bob
Is Russia making more progress than it seems in eastern Ukraine?
Mickey: If Trumpists depose Mitch McConnell, it could forestall a Trump 2024 run
George W. Bush’s magnificent Ukraine-Iraq gaffe
Can John Fetterman win in the PA general election?
Parrot Room preview:
Severance
, Covid, Elon Musk’s sex scandal, the Depp-Heard trial, Jonathan Chait on charter schools, unemployment fraud, the
Dead End
podcast, the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, Benjamin Wittes’s infuriatingly Blobby Twitter thread, and what Ramesh Ponnuru misses about replacement rhetoric
May 20, 2022 — Glenn Loury & Daniel Kaufman
The Glenn Show
How scientific are the social sciences?
Glenn defends the reliability of economic predictions
The strengths and weaknesses of “natural experiments”
How much does culture affect economic behavior?
New insights from behavioral economics
Dan: We trust the social sciences too much
May 19, 2022 — Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
What does Pennsylvania say about Trump’s hold on the GOP?
What does Fetterman’s victory say about the direction of the Democratic Party?
Should Democrats in PA have tried to help Doug Mastriano win the GOP gubernatorial primary?
Why did the GOP Establishment turn on Madison Cawthorn?
“Big Lie” Republicans haven’t won a Secretary of State primary yet
What’s up with Matt and Steve Schmidt?
May 17, 2022 — Robert Wright & Ian Bremmer
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Ian’s brand new book, The Power of Crisis
Did NATO expansion lead to the invasion of Ukraine?
Ian: We shouldn’t have left Russia behind after the Cold War
How much trouble is caused by America’s lack of perspective-taking?
The critical problems Ian wants the world to focus on
Does the “democracy vs. autocracy” framing do more harm than good?
The rival technological visions of the US and China (and Elon Musk)
Could our current crises be the seeds of future flourishing?
May 13, 2022 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
The baby formula conundrum
Mickey: Chuck Schumer has put Dems in a bad position for the midterms
Is the Ukraine military aid bill excessive?
How neoconish think tanks influence Western coverage of Ukraine
Mickey asks: Would a new cold war be so bad? Bob answers.
Kathy Barnette’s surprising surge in the Pennsylvania GOP senate primary
If a Trumpist Trump hasn’t endorsed wins a race, is it a win for Trump?
Is Tesla’s stock price threatening Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase?
Musk backpedals on his free speech position
Video of Israeli soldiers beating mourners at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh goes viral
Mickey: It’s much more plausible that the Roe v. Wade opinion leaker was a left-winger
Parrot Room preview: Steve Schmidt’s meltdown, Dinesh D’Souza is at it again, the creepy views of a Disinformation Governance Board member, IQ differences in a pair of South Korean twins, J.D. Vance, the child tax credit,
Station Eleven
, the etymology of “black hole” and its connection to Bob, drinking spinal fluid for brain rejuvenation, Tucker Carlson, and the shifting Latino vote
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