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Jul 26, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Eli Lake
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- What’s next after Trump’s tweet threatening Iran?
- Bob vs. Eli on whether Iran is a meaningful threat to the US
- Comparing Iranian and Israeli foreign interventions
- Bob: America and its allies turned Syria from a tragedy into a catastrophe
- Why Bob sees no chance of Trump cutting a deal with Iran
- Was the uproar over Trump’s Helsinki performance overblown?
- Is the Republic at peril?
TAGS Barack Obama | Donald Trump | foreign policy | immigration | international law | Iran | Israel | Syria
Jul 24, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Stephen Greenblatt
Culturally Determined
- Stephen’s new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
- The Henry VI trilogy: Making England Great Again
- Why Shakespeare understood demagogues so well
- Shakespeare’s distrust of democracy and the mob
- How do you stop a tyrant?
- The mad kings in Lear and The Winter’s Tale
- Richard III and Trump, fusing comedy and malice
Jul 23, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Liza Featherstone
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Liza: Hillary Clinton’s faux feminism lost her the election
- Recalling Clinton’s infamous “baking cookies” remark
- Liza says Clinton used “neoliberal identity politics”
- Progressive, liberal, neoliberal: please define
- Liza’s book on focus groups, Divining Desire
- The truth about famous failures: New Coke and the Edsel
- Was 2016 a rejection of focus-group driven politics?
Jul 18, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Michael Tracey
Culturally Determined
- Michael: The liberal narrative about Trump is contradictory
- Michael: Trump’s worst acts were also done by past presidents
- Aryeh: Trump doesn’t care about politics
- Do pundits accomplish anything by constantly psychoanalyzing Trump?
- Does Trump have a non-interventionist instinct?
- Why Michael doesn’t buy the Russia narrative
- Aryeh: The hacked emails hurt Hillary, but not in the way you think
- Michael: Democrats should focus on Trump’s corruption in office
- Why are so many leftists skeptics of Russiagate?
Jul 17, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Will Sommer
Culturally Determined
- Will reports on the Roe v. Wade movie and becomes part of the story
- Down the rabbit hole of the QAnon conspiracy theory
- What draws people to conspiracy theories?
- Are the latest Mueller indictments the end of Seth Rich conspiracizing?
- Ben Garrison, the leading pro-Trump political cartoonist
- How does the alt-right view antifa?
- Meet Jacob Wohl, Trump’s #1 Twitter fanboy
Jul 16, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Jacob Heilbrunn
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- “Vesuvian wrath” over Trump’s press conference performance
- What explains Trump’s antics at the NATO meeting?
- The Cold Warriors and the doves have swapped roles
- The growing international alliance of anti-internationalists
- Did the Iraq War make Trump president?
- Jacob explains the foreign policy realism of The National Interest
- Jacob: Trump’s foreign policy hearkens back to the pre-WWII GOP
- Bob’s fantasy about Theresa May
- Why does Trump like Putin so dang much?
Jul 12, 2018 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt is disappointed that Trump didn’t pick Amy Barrett for the Court
- Matt: Choosing Barrett would have been a “win-win”
- Why did Trump pick the white guy?
- Does anyone on the right (aside from Matt) believe in diversity?
- Red-state Democrats’ hard votes on Kavanaugh
- Bill: Dems must win the Senate to kill the Trump judiciary project
- Should NeverTrumpers be happy about Kavanaugh?
Jul 10, 2018 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
- John: Trump has the brain of a 13-year-old boy
- Glenn: Trump will be viewed as more effective than Obama
- Is Trump an idiot? A savant?
- Glenn: Clarence Thomas is a symbol of African-American excellence
- John wishes Thomas wasn’t silent at oral argument
- Critiquing the black intelligentsia
- How big of a problem is the “Starbucks and swimming pools” problem?
Jul 3, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Sarah Posner
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- How Trump and the evangelical right became bedfellows
- “Two Corinthians” and Trump’s familiarity with the prosperity gospel
- Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s likely pick to dismantle Roe v. Wade
- Bob: State-level abortion laws will deepen the divide between red and blue states
- Did Trump pay to cover up an abortion?—and why evangelicals don’t care
- Sarah: Becoming numb to Trump’s transgressions is “how authoritarianism works”
- Bob’s tactical approach to political outrage
- Was deplatforming Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s dinner a good idea?
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