Bloggingheads.tv Podcast
1) Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
Does John have “light skinned” privilege? ... Why marrying out-of-race is a loaded issue in the black community ... How anger at structural racism becomes blinding ... John: What makes black oppressio...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, and Other Elite Malefactors (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Bob’s Doha trip takeaways ... The Epstein-Bannon-Trump connection ... Can MAGA survive the Epstein saga? ... Email hygiene 101 ... Paul defends Larry Summers ... Olivia Nuzzi hikes the Appalachia...Show More
3) Will One AI Rule Us All? (Robert Wright & Alex Komoroske)
Teaser ... Alex's influential "Google PM Bible" ... What is a tech aggregator? ... AI is much more than chatbots ... The dangers of centralized AI ... What you want vs what you want to want .....Show More
4) Disorder as the New Normal (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... What is Bob doing in Qatar? ... "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Why Yeats felt this way ... Peter Thiel's Antichrist theory ... Nikita: COVID was a weird time, and nothing...Show More
5) Is American Might Right? (Robert Wright & Shadi Hamid)
Teaser ... Shadi’s path to his new book, The Case for American Power ... George W. Bush’s “Freedom Agenda” ... Does America’s role in Gaza undermine Shadi’s case? ... Shadi’s case for US moral su...Show More
6) Zohran, Epstein, and Two Decades of Bob and Mickey (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
This week in underappreciated world history ... Were the elections all—or just mostly—bad news for Trump? ... Will Trump invade Venezuela? ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump ... What’s t...Show More
7) Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and the Gatekeeper Question (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
The Carlson-Fuentes interview controversy ... Paul: Candidate Carlson is coming ... Is gatekeeping dead? ... Is Carlson’s show respectable? ... Carlson and Fuentes on the Israel lobby ... William...Show More
8) Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire & Other Sketchy Deals (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Bob tries to lower American Prestige’s self-esteem ... The Trump-Xi trade talks ... Making sense of Trump’s nuclear saber-rattling ... Signs of a US-China vibe shift ... Is AI accelerating science...Show More
9) The Trump Doctrine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... Trump on drug cartels: "We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be like, dead." ... Venezuela: Regime change disguised as drug war ... Marco Rubio holds all the foreign policy power ... T...Show More
10) Mindfulness and the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Robert Wright & Vincent Fakhoury Horn)
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