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) The Iran War: A Debate (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)
Bob and Eli’s history of (civil) disagreement on Iran ... Is Trump's war on Iran legal? Does it matter? ... Who’s the real rogue state? ... Israel’s nukes and Iran’s nuclear program ... Is Israel ...Show More
3) MAGA Opposition to the Iran War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)
Would America benefit from Iran “winning”? ... Trump’s last exit ramp? ... What’s China’s angle on the war? ... Trump: psychoanalyzed ... Israel: psychoanalyzed ... Iran’s plans for the Strait of...Show More
4) Averting a Superintelligence Takeover (Robert Wright & Andrea Miotti)
Teaser ... Defining (and preventing) superintelligence ... Where the nuclear analogy holds (and where it breaks) ... Imagining an AI inspections regime ... The superintelligence precursors to wat...Show More
5) The Iran War and the Singularity (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... Holy Week in Andalusia, and the Christian cross as branding ... Why Bob is skeptical of Trump's diplomacy ... Trump's hand got weaker and he doesn't even know it ... Killing Iran's nav...Show More
6) Israel, America, and the Iran War (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)
Teaser ... What (or who) is the Iran war for? ... Joe Kent and the MAGA rift over Israel ... Does antisemitism speech policing foment antisemitism? ... What Ron’s Substack has that others don’t ....Show More
7) The Allure and Danger of Agentic AI (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)
Teaser ... Overtime preview: a civil(-ish) debate on Israel-Palestine ... How vibe-coding changed Liron’s life ... Portents of the AI jobpocalypse ... What can humans do that AI agents can’t? .....Show More
8) Israel’s Plan for Iran (And Beyond) (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)
Teaser ... Is Iran inflicting much damage on Israel? ... Iran has a strategy. Does America? Does Israel? ... Where Trump and Bibi differ ... Why Daniel is no longer a Zionist ... Bibi vs the Isra...Show More
9) Iran's War for a New Middle East Order (Robert Wright & Hooman Majd)
Teaser ... How we got here ... Understanding Iran's strategy and goals ... Turkey, Europe, and the Gulf States ... Will the Iranian regime survive? ... The specious leadership of Reza Pahlavi .....Show More
10) Israel, Iran, and Antisemitism (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)
Teaser ... Will the Iran war supercharge antisemitism? ... Varieties of Israeli-Jewish conflation ... The Epstein effect ... Tucker v. Israel vs Fuentes v. Israel ... Does MSM have a pro-Israel b...Show More