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Mar 17, 2023 — Glenn Loury & Sylvester Gates
The Glenn Show
What led Jim to the forefront of physics
Jim explains supersymmetry
Is there racism in the sciences?
The role of culture and imagination in the sciences
The scientific “big bang” in Europe
How Jim accounts for racial disparities in test scores
Jim: “Genius” is a verb
Why Jim worries about DEI and cancelation
Mar 14, 2023 — Robert Wright & Ananyo Bhattacharya
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Ananyo’s book, The Man from the Future, about game theory inventor and polymath John von Neumann
Early life as a mathematical wunderkind
Von Neumann’s foundational contributions to quantum physics
Was entanglement as “spooky” to von Neumann as it was to Einstein?
Building—and reckoning with—the atomic bomb
Did von Neumann really want to nuke the USSR?
Why was early game theory so zero-sum–focused?
Influence on Turing, the open source movement, and modern computing
How brushes with totalitarianism shaped von Neumann’s views
Programming pioneer Klára Dán von Neumann
The duality of von Neumann’s social life
Did von Neumann grok incompleteness before Gödel?
Unfinished work comparing computers and the brain
Von Neumann’s deathbed conversion: Pascal’s wager or something more?
Mar 10, 2023 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Biden’s soak-the-rich budget: big news or borefest?
How Biden insulting Xi Jinping endangers Ukraine
Bob finds another reason Biden shouldn’t run for re-election
Ukraine war update
Nordstream’s hobbyist saboteurs
Tucker Carlson outed as anti-Trump phony
Parrot Room preview: Gavin Newsom takes on Walgreens; Twitter community notes annoy Mickey; Semafor’s China racket; Bob’s Washington Post lab leak piece; Peter Thiel’s techno-optimism.
Mar 10, 2023 — Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
John’s awkward run-in at the farmer’s market
Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043?
Regret, doubt, and going against the tide
How Glenn and John negotiate their public profiles
Did Scott Adams deserve to get canceled?
What’s going on beneath the Scott Adams controversy?
Mar 9, 2023 — Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher
The DMZ
What was Scott Adams’ ridiculous excuse?
What happened to Tucker Carlson?
Is Fox News at risk of losing its pro-Trump audience?
Has Trump retaken control of the GOP primary?
Did Biden do the right thing on the DC crime bill?
Mar 7, 2023 — Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Paul’s new book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
Does psychology need more evolutionary thinking?
Freud and Skinner and parts in between
Mind-body dualism’s enduring intuitive appeal
ChatGPT and the human mind: compare and contrast
Are cognitive biases overblown?
A brief note about the podcast
Implicit biases, memory, and other topics covered in the book
Mar 3, 2023 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Mickey celebrates good week for JD Vance, Ron DeSantis
The Biden admin’s “all sticks, no carrots” approach to foreign policy
Is China’s plummeting birth rate a problem?
Will Bibi wag the dog?
Will AI kill the journalism star?
Ukraine war update
Alarmism about a China-Russia axis
Parrot room preview: more Ukraine; Dilbert creator gets canceled; why the kids aren’t alright; Will student loan cancellation pass Supreme Court muster?; Buy books before it’s too late?; Mickey’s flick pick; wrapping up The Long Goodbye; Lab-leak theory gets a boost; more AI; The real story being Elon’s algorithmic boost
Mar 3, 2023 — Glenn Loury & Oded Galor
The Glenn Show
Oded’s new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history
Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagnation cycle
Humanity’s phase shift into modernity
Inequality and the formation of institutions
The deep links between geography and institutions
Africa, Asia, and the trials of diversity
Mar 3, 2023 — Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher
The DMZ
Has the East Palestine train derailment derailed Biden … and Buttigieg?
Is Trump winning and DeSantis losing?
Has CPAC lost its cachet?
Is there room for a Republican candidate who isn’t Trump and DeSantis?
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