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Nov 8, 2018 —
Robert Wright, Sarah Posner, & Mark Schmitt
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Sarah and Mark on election surprises
- How the GOP increased its Senate margin
- White evangelicals’ transactional relationship with Trump
- How Kavanaugh and the caravan affected the election
- Should Dems run progressive rockstars or boring moderates?
- Why governors matter
- What should the Dem House do? Hold hearings!
- With Sessions forced out, could Mueller’s report be shelved?
Oct 22, 2018 —
Robert Wright & John B. Judis
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Why didn’t the Emerging Democratic Majority ever emerge?
- John’s new book, The Nationalist Revival
- America’s history of ethnonationalism and assimilation
- The coalition of the “left behind”
- The global tension between the “somewheres” and the “anywheres”
- Europe’s refugee crisis as a hinge point
- Toward a liberal nationalism
- Is John optimistic or pessimistic?
Oct 19, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Sally Kohn
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Sally’s new book, The Opposite of Hate
- Why (gay, lefty) Sally took a gig at Fox News
- A test case of tamping down hate: Ben Shapiro’s very bad tweet
- What do liberals get wrong about Trump supporters?
- Sally: Hate is never the answer to hate
- The desire for a loathsome enemy
- Is it crazy to be talking about a second American civil war?
- Sally reveals what the opposite of hate actually is
Oct 15, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Stephen Walt
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Steve’s new book, The Hell of Good Intentions
- Steve: “Liberal hegemony” has been almost a complete failure
- Why foreign policy watchers were so optimistic in 1993
- Bill Clinton’s foreign policy blunders: Expansion of NATO and “dual containment” of Iran and Iraq
- Steve: Within the foreign policy establishment, failure has no consequences and dissent is punished
- How both Obama and Trump were captured by the foreign policy “blob”
- Why are so many think tanks interventionist?
- Steve’s proposal for a smarter foreign policy: “offshore balancing”
Sep 28, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Greg Gutfeld
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Greg’s new book, The Gutfeld Monologues
- How going to Berkeley pushed Greg toward conservatism
- Trumpism creates strange ideological bedfellows
- Bob offers a magic solution to the freedom vs. security dilemma
- Was Obama right to avoid the phrase “Islamic radicalism”?
- Trump’s savvy use of identity politics
- The secret ingredient to Greg’s meditation practice
Sep 6, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Ian Bremmer
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Ian’s new book, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
- Trump’s foreign policy: belligerent nationalism or non-interventionism or both?
- What Trump offers disgruntled voters and the news media
- The perilous future of US-Iran relations
- Do US foreign policy makers pay too much attention to the oil states?
- Ian: Technology is empowering authoritarian regimes
- Why Ian is still optimistic about the world
Sep 5, 2018 —
Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff
The Glenn Show
- Larry gives Trump’s tax reform a B-
- Persistent economic problems: real wages stagnating, inflation rising, stock market gains are temporary
- What really drove the stock market gains?
- Larry: Trump’s tax reform is progressive when measured correctly
- Trump’s overreaction to trade deficits
- China’s policies on American tech and appropriate responses
- Assessing Trump’s deregulation initiatives
TAGS China | Donald Trump | economic growth | economics | economy | financial regulation | free trade | stock market | wage stagnation
Aug 20, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Will Menaker
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Will’s blockbuster podcast, Chapo Trap House
- Chapo’s new book, The Chapo Guide to Revolution
- Celebrity dumbasses, liberal hawks, and neocons
- How the Iraq war radicalized Will
- Why Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein are in Chapo’s crosshairs
- Critiquing the Resistance from the left
- Are Trump voters racist? Economically anxious?
- Will: There is no decent conservatism in America
TAGS Barack Obama | Donald Trump | foreign policy | Hillary Clinton | Iraq War | podcasts | socialism
Aug 17, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Robert P. George
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Robby explains why he still opposes Trump
- Trump’s superpower: making everything more polarized
- The tempestuous political climate on college campuses
- Why are professors overwhelmingly on the left?
- Deplatforming: Where to draw the line?
- Peter Singer’s controversial views on infanticide
- Bob laments the damage done to US foreign policy by DC think tanks
- Philosopher Thomas Nagel and ideological tribalism
Aug 1, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- With the economy hot, why are Trump’s approval ratings not?
- What if Trump wants to be a one-term president?
- Why Dems should pay more attention to their boring old centrist senators
- Bill: It’s time for NeverTrump conservatives to just become Democrats
- Is Trump the “racist uncle” of the GOP family?
- The dangers of watching ’80s sitcoms with your kids
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