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Bloggingheads.tv videos — May 2022
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May 13, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
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
May 13, 2022 —
Cancellation at St. Olaf College (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Edmund Santurri)
The Glenn Show
- Why Ed is being removed from the directorship of the Institute for Freedom & Community
- The pressure campaigns waged against past Institute events
- John: Administrators at St. Olaf should be ashamed of themselvesc
- Are right-wing campaigns against openly trans and nonbinary elementary school teachers the equivalent of left-wing cancel culture?
- What are the social determinants of gender identity in young people?
- Glenn’s awesome house
- A festschrift for Glenn
- Can we separate jurisprudence from the lived consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade?
- Do the ends now justify the means in American politics?
May 10, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Susan Thornton
The Wright Show
- Sizing up the new Cold War
- Is China complicit in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
- Dissecting the Russia-Ukraine, China-Taiwan analogy
- Understanding Taiwan’s status – and vulnerability – in the international system
- Did US foreign policy make Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more likely?
- What role did the US play in Ukraine’s 2014 revolution?
- Was Bush 41 the golden age of American post-Cold-War diplomacy?
- Susan: Trump shook things up but was a blight on America’s reputation
- Bob has an idea: How about a world without war?
May 6, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
The Wright Show
- What does J.D. Vance’s primary win teach us about the Trump Effect?
- Will the overturning of Roe give Democrats a boost in the midterms?
- The Hillary Clinton campaign’s role in amping up Russiagate
- Bob: A cornered Putin is a scarier Putin
- Doing the nuclear war math
- Can Putin take Odessa and Kharkiv?
- Taylor Lorenz tangles with Matt Drudge
- A new study shows that Omicron is not intrinsically milder than the original Covid virus
- Some quick corrections
- The Biden administration’s ill-advised Ukraine leaks
- Parrot Room preview: Elon Musk talk, Station Eleven, Severance, the latest January 6 leak, Bob gets a classic Michael McFaul brush-off, the White House Correspondents Dinner, Gavin Newsom, unjustified deplatforming, WNYC’s Dead End podcast, and Roe v. Wade
May 6, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Briahna Joy Gray
The Glenn Show
- Acknowledging the black middle class
- How the Democratic Party works against progressives
- Briahna: The interests of political parties no longer reflect the interests of voters
- Should we increase taxes on the very rich in order to fund the social safety net?
- Briahna makes the case for Medicare for All
- Should we cancel student debt?
- The left-right alliance over intervention in Ukraine
May 3, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup
The Wright Show
- The basics of “analytic idealism”—Bernardo’s consciousness-only theory of reality
- How intuitive is the materialist worldview, really?
- Does evolution select for “true” perceptions of reality?
- Is idealism compatible with evolutionary theory?
- Bernardo: The “physical” world is a convenient fiction
- Putting idealism to the (empirical) test
- The idealist view of various quantum physics quandaries
- Telepathy, premonition, and other “weirdness” under idealism
- Can analytic idealism change your life?
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