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Bloggingheads.tv videos — May 2022
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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 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 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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