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) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) Trump's Gulf War (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Teaser ... Marco Rubio's Israel faux pas ... What are Trump’s new goalposts? ... The regime after Khamenei ... Can a regime be changed by air strikes alone? ... Will Turkey be drawn in? ... The ...Show More
8) Will the Iran War Spiral Out of Control? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... Spain: the one country that got it right ... When US rhetoric starts sounding like the Kremlin ... Nukes, regime change, military threat—pick one ... Rubio's "ridiculous" explanation fo...Show More
9) Iran War II (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Teaser ... Why is Trump threatening Iran, really? ... What’s the strategic logic behind striking? ... Trump vs Bibi on Gaza ... How would—and could—Iran respond? ... What a post-regime-collapse I...Show More
10) Is Anthropic Misanthropic? (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)
Teaser ... Holly’s call-out campaign ... Holly: Don’t believe the Amanda Askell puff pieces ... Is Amanda a bad person? ... How Dario’s false dichotomies accelerate the AI race ... The only Anth...Show More