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Bloggingheads.tv videos — June 2022
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Jun 28, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob and Matt reflect on the early days of Bloggingheads
- The decline of print and the rise of blogging
- How Matt made blogging work for him
- The shifting incentives of digital publishing
- Matt: Filter bubbles are more real than the research seems to suggest
- Bob: To succeed in modern journalism, it helps to like being hated
- The positive side of social media
- Slippage between news and opinion at the NYT
- The worrisome incentives of Twitter for academics
Jun 24, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- An important announcement for Bloggingheads fans
- Was Roe v. Wade doomed from its inception?
- Will the Supreme Court’s gun ruling get people killed?
- Bob: Democrats should weaponize the gun ruling
- Mickey: The January 6 hearings have been effective if unbalanced
- The pragmatic case for not indicting Trump
- Bob’s Biden replacement proposal of the week: Van Jones
- Two Trump-related hurdles for Ron DeSantis
- Ukraine update: the momentum shift is official
- A bittersweet farewell to Bloggingheads
- Mickey clarifies: He does not think sex should be illegal
- Parrot Room preview: Media bias on Ukraine, Juneteenth, Mark Shields, Bob’s killer argument against Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument, Undone, we’re all the Beatles now, a crucial test for Brexit, Mickey’s prediction about the lab leak hypothesis, Lightyear bombs, Ben Smith’s Semafor, immigration news, a “Bonesaw Golf Circuit” update, and should the government regulate AI?
Jun 24, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- John reports on his rustic Catskills bungalow
- Parents protest Princeton public schools “dumbing down” their math curriculum
- How much educational transparency is owed to parents?
- How many DEI initiatives and administrators do we actually need?
- John: I don’t think we can fix what’s broken in DEI
- Glenn’s theory of social capital may explain (but does not excuse) some disparities
- Cultures of achievement vs. disincentive effects of affirmative action
- What do we know about what kids know about the world?
- Glenn offers some reason for hope from John Tomasi
Jun 21, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Matthew Duss
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Why Matt thinks progressives should support giving military aid to Ukraine
- Bob defends much of the left-wing critique of America’s Russia-Ukraine policies
- How the “Putin’s talking points” smear shuts down criticism of US foreign policy
- Is the “democracy vs autocracy” framework leading the world to Cold War II?
- Assessing possible endgames in Ukraine – and what comes after
- Did Biden make a serious diplomatic effort to prevent Putin’s invasion?
- Making free trade agreements a tool for advancing left-of-center policy
Jun 17, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey implores Bob: “Leave Biden alone!” Bob proves incapable.
- Democrats’ surprisingly good Senate race poll numbers
- Mickey: Immigration numbers are climbing, but the media isn’t covering it
- The downsides of framing US foreign policy as a “struggle against autocracy”
- How courageous was Pence on January 6?
- Did Trump both plan and fan the violence on January 6?
- Mickey: Trump and DeSantis are neck and neck as 2024 prospects
- Will Biden lift Trump-era tariffs on China?
- Bob: Ukraine may soon run out of ammo for its Soviet-era artillery
- Parrot Room preview: Exciting child tax credit news, Jeffrey Epstein news, a new angle on the Dave Weigel affair, Stanford eliminates fun, a deep dive into Bob’s views on consciousness, the dating habits of Richard Spencer, the US Open, Bob pummels an NYT headline, the Proud Boys, and Kurt Gödel
Jun 17, 2022 —
Glenn Loury & Jonathan Haidt
The Glenn Show
- Glenn asks: Is Jon’s heterodoxy insufficiently pugilistic?
- Jon’s theory of social media-driven “structural stupidity”
- Do the Republican Party’s structural flaws negate its policies?
- The rise of social media and the disappearance of free play for kids
- Race, trans issues, and the future of the country
- Why are economists uniquely heterodox thinkers in the academy?
- What fills the “God-shaped hole” in the hearts of putatively secular Americans?
Jun 16, 2022 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Tuesday’s primaries in South Carolina and Nevada
- Do voters care more about inflation than saving liberal democracy?
- And will flawed Republican candidates help Democrats survive what otherwise looks to be a very bad midterm election?
- Should America raise the age to own a firearm?
- Might innocent kids get penalized by liberal red flag laws?
- And what’s the “boyfriend loophole” anyway?
Jun 14, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Nikita’s exciting—but daunting—new creative venture
- What responsibility do the Russian people bear for their government’s actions?
- Seeing clearly the many perspectives in the “Russian perspective”
- When does blaming propaganda go from explanation to excuse?
- Was this war with Russia the least bad option for Ukraine?
- Is fighting the power a fool’s errand?
- Assigning credit (and blame) for post-Soviet Russia
- Did US interests want Russia to invade Ukraine?
Jun 10, 2022 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- What did we learn from the primetime January 6 hearing?
- Bob: “Our foreign policy is virtue signaling, and it’s very, very costly”
- The alarming threats against Supreme Court justices
- WaPo’s dismissal of Felicia Sonmez
- Does Chesa Boudin’s recall mark the end of criminal justice reform?
- The Iran Deal teeters on the edge of collapse
- Bob tears Biden and Blinken’s sanctioning policy a new one
- Mickey: Biden should prepare for midterm losses by pivoting now
- Why haven’t Ukraine’s new weapons slowed Russia down?
- Parrot Room preview: Felicia Sonmez, Saudi Arabia’s LIV golf tour, why Microsoft may own the metaverse, The Glitch in the Matrix, an under-reported Jeffrey Epstein-Elon Musk connection, a lab leak hypothesis update, Mickey’s un-PC thoughts about Ken Bode, and Mickey wrestles with his own ideological affiliations
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