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Bloggingheads.tv videos — June 2023
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Jun 30, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Why Michael McFaul is wrong about Vladimir Putin
- Is Putin ready for a ceasefire?
- Has SCOTUS succeeded in killing affirmative action?
- Americans do have to pay student loans, don’t have to make LGBT websites
- Is RFK Jr. entering Trump’s orbit?
- Parrot Room preview: GOP election strategy; Bidenomics and national conservatism; band name of the year; Yglesias says liberals have higher IQs; final episode of Silo; Bob reviews Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Titanic submarine tragedy; and reasons to worry about a false flag attack in Ukraine.
Jun 27, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Sean Mirski
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Sean’s new book, We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
- China’s and Russia’s behavior today compared to America’s a century ago
- If geopolitical realities don’t change, are great powers doomed to blow up the world?
- Why did the US decide to dominate the western hemisphere?
- American interventions from the Civil War to World War I
- Why forceful US interventions in Latin America have become less common
- Were the fears motivating the annexation of Hawaii based in reality?
- Did the Spanish-American War have broad public support?
Jun 23, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Should Hunter Biden and Trump get the Tim Geithner treatment?
- Bob’s latest evidence that Biden shouldn’t run again
- Have we reached peak RFK Jr.?
- Does the counteroffensive hurt Ukraine’s cause?
- Leaky new dam collapse theory
- The rapidly metastasizing GOP primary field
- Israel-Palestine gets Black Mirror-y
- Alito’s ill-considered trip
- Parrot room preview: The right’s schism over capitalism; Prigozhin’s insurrection; the Titanic sub tragedy; Why Mickey is growing to hate EVs; Janan Ganesh’s elite take on populism; Bob’s (possibly) new UFO thoughts; Cutting the tax cuts from supply-side economics?; Silo; Biden’s billion-dollar battery bonuses; Biden’s reverse-Epstein problem
Jun 23, 2023 —
Canceling "Culture in America" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jonathan Rieder)
The Glenn Show
- Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled
- The fragility of liberal arts education
- Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom
- Is there a future for free inquiry?
- John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action
- Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism?
- The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy
Jun 20, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Simon Baron-Cohen
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- The (fuzzy) distinction between cognitive and emotional empathy
- Simon’s work on autism and empathy
- Should we really view autism as a spectrum?
- Are powerful people bad at cognitive empathy?
- Hitler, tribalism, and the societal dynamics of empathy
- Can cognitive empathy save the world?
- The “double-empathy” problem
- How autistic kids play differently
Jun 16, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey gets a B+ on this week’s news quiz
- Is RFK Jr. the Dem’s key to booting Biden?
- Chris Christie’s chances vs. Trump
- Has Tucker gone off the deep end?
- No, Russia didn’t blow up Ukraine’s dam
- Is the Ukrainian counteroffensive failing?
- Parrot room preview: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg; Elizabeth Gilbert’s self-cancellation; the fake deepfake of John Lennon; Mickey’s AI question; a bit of Epstein news; LIV golf update; Mickey contra popular vote compact; the Blob’s pro-immigration argument; Who’s going to pardon Trump? And why?; Did Harvard or the CIA drive the Unabomber crazy?; RIP Ed Fredkin; Silo; Harvard and the Inuit
Jun 13, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Frank’s book The End of History and the Last Man
- Bob’s book Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
- Do people have to be rational in order to cooperate?
- Are AI and other technologies advancing too rapidly for society to adapt?
- Frank’s take on Hegel
- Why Frank’s a Russia hawk and Bob’s a Russia dove
- Will authoritarian regimes do a better job of dealing with advanced information technologies?
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