Shows
The Wright ShowIs Trump breaking with Israel? (Connor Echols & Jon Hoffman)Headlines ... Is Trump breaking with Israel? ... Making sense of the US-Houthi ceasefire ... Will the US give Saudi Arabia nuclear power? ... Reading the tea leaves on US-Iran talks ... Is Trump putting the US on track for war with China? ... Would Trump really go to war with Iran? ... Are restrainers gaining ground in the Trump administration? ... How Israel could undermine US-Iran talks ...2025-05-1000 minThe Wright ShowThe case for alarm about artificial intelligence (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)Holly’s newsletter and her work with PauseAI ... The state of AI safety ... Why Holly started PauseAI US ... Is AI acceleration… accelerating? ... What rationalists got wrong about the singularity ... Mechanize Inc. and the danger of AI safety sellouts ... Holly: Here’s why AI should alarm you ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-05-0900 minThe Wright ShowThe Biden-Trump Path to Global Ruin (Robert Wright & Matthew Duss)Which think tanks are anti-Blob? ... What's the real goal of Bibi’s new Gaza “operation”? ... Why can’t (or won’t) the US rein in Israel? ... Who’s undermined the ‘rules-based order’ more—Biden or Trump? ... In search of anti-Blob Dems for 2028 ... How neoliberalism seeded Trump’s tariff chaos ... AI, DC, and the x-risk of China-hawkism ... Matt on what most miss about foreign policy ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-05-0600 minThe Wright ShowTrump Doubles Down on the Law of the Jungle (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)Headlines ... Bob joins to discuss Trump's first 100 days ... What the Waltz firing means for Trump's foreign policy ... Has Rubio really dropped his hawkish proclivities? ... Trump's jungle rulebook ... Is Trump putting the US on track for war with China? ... Middle East fires: Yemen, Syria, Iran ... Trump's about-face on Gaza ... Gen Z and the Trump Effect ...2025-05-0300 minThe Wright ShowCan Trump Make Peace in Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)The state of play in Russia-Ukraine ... Anatol: Here’s how the war could end ... Which side wants peace more? ... Why hasn’t Trump used his leverage? ... Anatol’s plan for peace ... What Russia-Ukraine reveals about the military-industrial complex ... What Trump's military purges reveal about his presidency ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-3000 minThe Wright ShowPope Francis, Peacemaker or Appeaser? (Connor Echols & Michael Brendan Dougherty)The new NonZero World ... Headlines ... Stories of the week ... Michael Brendan Dougherty on Pope Francis' foreign policy legacy ... Michael: The pope should be a voice for peace ... A European church no more ... Michael: The Vatican went too far in deal with China ... How the Holy See helped Obama reach out to Cuba ... The pope's moral clarity on Gaza ... A restrainer in the Vatican? ...2025-04-2600 minThe Wright ShowTrump and Musk retreat as Canadian election approaches (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Trump and Elon’s bad week = good news for Bob… ... …but bad news for Canada's prime minister? ... Trump’s crackdown on speech expands ... Debating embryo-screening ethics ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-2500 minThe Wright ShowTrump, Modi, and the Authoritarian Playbook (Robert Wright & Pratap Bhanu Mehta)Pratap’s bona fides ... How Pratap ran afoul of Modi (and the price he paid) ... Trump vs Modi: compare and contrast ... India’s birth as a multi-ethnic state ... Pratap on how we got Trump (and Modi) ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-2300 minThe Wright ShowTrump’s Anti-antisemitism Crusade (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)Ron violates retirement dress code ... Trump’s “antisemitism crackdown" ... Is the Israel lobby bad for American Jews? ... The disturbing Tufts detention case ... Why don’t more progressive Jews call out the Israel lobby? ... How bad journalism makes antisemitism worse ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-1800 minThe Wright ShowUntangling Trump’s Tariff Logic (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)Sam's theory of (some of) Trump's tariffs ... The bad scenario and the less bad scenario ... Scott Bessent's radicalism ... Will Trump display the art of the deal? ... China's trade-war strengths ... An intentional end to American hegemony? ... Sam’s defense of chip restrictions ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-1500 minThe Wright ShowHow Trump could strike a deal with Iran (Connor Echols & Sina Toossi)Sina's hopes for this weekend's US-Iran talks ... Trump's two-month clock starts ticking ... Iran's growing nuclear leverage ... Trump the dealmaker vs Trump the warmonger ... The myth of a "surgical" military campaign against Iran ... The resurgence of Iran's reformist camp ...2025-04-1200 minThe Wright ShowThe Psycho-logic of Trump’s Tariffs (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Paul is Bob's worthwhile Canadian initiative ... The psycho-logic of Trump’s tariff strategy ... Has Trump exposed structural flaws in America? ... Is Musk saying Navarro is dumber than Ivanka? ... On incest ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-1000 minThe Wright ShowThe Real (And Fictional) Orson Welles (Robert Wright & Milton Lawson)Milton’s epic new comic, “Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds” ... Comics culture, then and now ... The real story behind the faux War of the Worlds broadcast ... Why Milton was drawn to Orson Welles ... What (or who) really derailed Welles’s career? ... Will Milton's comic go multimedia? ... Heading to Overtime—with Bob in the hot seat ...2025-04-0800 minThe Wright ShowThe Psychopolitics of the Noosphere (audio replay) (Robert Wright, Nikita Petrov, and Boris Shoshitaishvili)Audio of the livestream titled “The Psychopolitics of the Noosphere,” the first installment in an ongoing—and evolving—collaboration between Nonzero and Psychopolitica. ...2025-04-0700 minThe Wright ShowHow Trump's tariffs could reshape the world (Connor Echols & Karthik Sankaran)The pro-tariff argument: national security, jobs, and leverage ... The four factions shaping US trade policy ... Karthik’s core critique of Trump’s tariff policy ... How tariffs could block development pathways for poor countries ... Is Trump blaming foreign countries for America's own policy mistakes? ... A brutal week for Vietnam ...2025-04-0500 minThe Wright ShowReid Hoffman's p(bloom) (Robert Wright & Reid Hoffman)Reid's new book, "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future" ... Managing technological transitions ... Using AI to build cognitive empathy ... Shaping the coming AI earthquake ... Reid's notion of "co-opetition" with China ... Geopolitics and AI development ... The US chip war on China ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-0300 minThe Wright ShowAuthoritarianism in the US and Abroad (Robert Wright & Almut Rochowanski)Almut’s first-hand acquaintance with authoritarianism ... Trump 2.0’s authoritarian hallmarks ... What should worry us most about Trump 2.0? ... Trump 2.0 vs post-Soviet oligarchy: compare and contrast ... Is Trump an ethno-nationalist? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-04-0200 minThe Wright ShowThe MAGA Foreign Policy Battle (Connor Echols & Kelley Vlahos)The dueling camps in right-wing foreign policy ... Lessons from the Signal snafu ... Are hawks dominating Trump's foreign policy team? ... Can Congress prevent a war with Iran? ... A "smear campaign" against Danny Davis ...2025-03-2900 minThe Wright ShowTesla, Tufts, and More Trump Chaos (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Bob and Paul duel over their sleep deficits ... Trump’s Tesla-friendly tariffs ... Who’s favo(u)red to win the Canadian election? ... Tufts and Columbia as authoritarian bellwethers ... Did Bob predict MAGA in 1999? ... God vs Hitler ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-2800 minThe Wright ShowThe CIA and the JFK Assassination (Robert Wright & Jefferson Morley)The new JFK documents dump ... The conflict between JFK and the CIA ... The Pentagon false flag plan that JFK vetoed ... How CIA funding shaped the Oswald narrative ... James Jesus Angleton’s handling of Oswald ... Some lies told by CIA officials ... Files the CIA still won’t release ...2025-03-2700 minThe Wright ShowWar in Yemen, Peace in Europe? (Connor Echols & Justin Logan)Will Trump get locked into war in Yemen? ... Competing instincts in Trump’s foreign policy team ... How should the restraint movement respond to Trump? ... Justin: Trump's pitch-perfect approach to Europe ... What happens if Trump pulls US troops from Europe? ...2025-03-2100 minThe Wright ShowThe Case for Religious Belief (Robert Wright & Ross Douthat)Ross’s new book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious ... An argument for cosmic purpose ... The mysterious persistence of weird shit ... Does human consciousness point to something bigger? ... Tensions between science and Christian orthodoxy ... A few more words about consciousness ... A few more words about weirdness ... Why doesn’t the weirdness show up in controlled studies? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-2000 minThe Wright ShowThe Long Lineage of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Jeet Heer)Jeet’s plans for Canadian resistance ... Trump 2.0: Making “autarkic imperialism” great again? ... The hidden logic of Trump’s tariffs ... The historical roots of Trumpism ... How Trump won the GOP civil war ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-1900 minThe Wright ShowAnother DeepSeek Moment? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)Connor’s Cuba adventure ... Chinese-owned Manus AI makes waves ... Is Manus just a fancy ‘wrapper’ for US AI? ... Why Manus makes global AI cooperation more urgent ... Can Trump deport a green card holder over political speech? ... Making sense of Trump's Ukraine strategy ...2025-03-1500 minThe Wright ShowCanada, Tesla, and Other Trump-Musk Troubles (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Does Paul have CDS (Chaos Desensitization Syndrome)? ... Worthwhile Canadian backlash ... Elon’s Tesla problem ... Trump 2.0’s free speech crackdown ... The primal psychology of Trump and Elon ... Bezos and university presidents bow to Trump ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-1300 minThe Wright Show50 Days of Trump 2.0 (Robert Wright & Eric Levitz)Is the chaos starting to subside? ... Trump’s tariff strategy (or lack thereof) ... Trump’s baffling, backfiring Canada obsession ... Elon’s darkly weird grandfather ... Has America gone full oligarchy? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-1100 minThe Wright ShowTrump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)What could go right with Trump’s foreign policy? ... Trump’s Bibi-pleasing Middle East path ... How would Europe-led defence of Europe work? ... What most miss about the Oval Office blowup ... Has relying on America doomed Ukraine? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-0700 minThe Wright ShowMutually Assured AI Malfunction (Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks)Dan’s new paper, “Superintelligence Strategy” ... “Mutually assured AI malfunction” ... Does China see America’s AI policy as a grave threat? ... How likely is US-China conflict over superintelligence? ... How America’s chip war makes war over Taiwan more likely ... Why did China-hawkism sweep Silicon Valley? ... Can we avoid AI doom without global governance? ... The key points of Dan’s paper ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-0500 minThe Wright ShowTrump vs. Zelensky: The Morning After (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)Andrew’s new gig (and gifts) ... Play-by-play of the Oval Office blowup ... Zelensky’s and Trump’s obsessions ... What are Russia’s red lines? ... Guaranteeing Ukraine’s (and Europe’s) security ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-03-0400 minThe Wright ShowHow to Slash the Pentagon Budget (Connor Echols & Julia Gledhill)Introduction ... How the Pentagon budget got so big ... How to cut $60 billion in military spending this year ... The privatization of weapons acquisitions ... Prospects for military budget reform under Trump ...2025-03-0100 minThe Wright ShowHockey, Trump, and Other US-Canada Issues (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Paul’s cold take on US-Canada relations ... How representative is representative government, really? ... Bob’s plan to end hockey fights ... A worthwhile Canadian initiative to dump Musk ... What makes James Bond James Bond? ... Bob’s reign as TV analysis king continues (claims Bob) ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-2700 minThe Wright ShowTrump 2.0 and the Law (Robert Wright & Jack Goldsmith)Intro ... Jack’s experience with presidential power ... Unpacking Trump’s Pentagon and DOJ purges ... Which legal battles could Trump win? ... The Trump-Musk chaos: bug or feature? ... How Trump is putting “unitary executive theory” into practice ... Is a unitary executive unconstitutional? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-2500 minThe Wright ShowTrump: Peacemaker or Chaos Agent? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)Intro and housekeeping ... Trump's very good, very bad week on Ukraine ... Trump vs his foreign policy team? ... Great-power competition and its discontents ... Musk runs roughshod over DC ...2025-02-2200 minThe Wright ShowInterpreting AI’s Acceleration (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose)Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability ... Is *a* singularity near? ... Nora: AI may take my job within two years ... The reason(ing) behind AI’s latest acceleration ... Thinking through the “chain-of-thought” process ... AI “thinking” vs human thinking ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-1900 minThe Wright ShowThe Perils of a New Cold War (Connor Echols & Van Jackson)Van's new book, The Rivalry Peril ... What policymakers forget about the first Cold War ... The roots of the US-China cold war ... The end of globalization and the rise of economic nationalism ... How rivalry deepens inequality in both the US and China ...2025-02-1500 minThe Wright ShowCanada vs Trump, OpenAI vs Google (and Musk) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)The newly united state of Canada ... What’s Elon’s endgame? ... Ross Douthat gives doubting Paul pause ... Which AI ad won the Super Bowl? ... The real stakes of Elon’s OpenAI bid ... Trump 2.0's free speech hypocrisy ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-1300 minThe Wright ShowWhy Wokeness Failed (Robert Wright & Musa al-Gharbi)Musa’s track record as Trump-reader and his new book, We Have Never Been Woke ... The reason Trump won—twice ... Messaging that works for the working class ... Has the left lost the faith(ful)? ... Who is wokeness even for? ... Biden’s bad messaging ... Why elites failed to deliver on social justice ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-1100 minThe Wright ShowTrump's Shock-and-Awe: Madness or Method? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)Housekeeping ... Making sense of the USAID cuts ... Trump's push for ethnic cleansing in Gaza ... How Trump's tariffs undermine US power ... Deep Research and the AI arms race ...2025-02-0800 minThe Wright ShowThe Truth About DeepSeek (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)Paul’s new newsletter, AIStackDecrypted ... Sketchy DeepSeek narratives: debunked ... How connected are DeepSeek and the Chinese government? ... China, Meta, and the open source AI debate(s) ... Paul’s problem with AGI “takeoff” ... The real lesson to take from DeepSeek ... Did the chip war on China really backfire? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-0600 minBhTV: The Wright Show (audio)Trump vs International Law (Robert Wright & Mark Leon Goldberg)Mark’s newsletter, podcast, and Bloggingheads roots ... Is Trump really anti-internationalist? ... Who was the most pro-UN post-Cold-War president? ... Is global governance doomed? ... Scoring the UN’s post-Cold War track record ... ICC and ICJ 101 ... Why the WHO matters ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-0400 minThe Wright ShowTrump vs International Law (Robert Wright & Mark Leon Goldberg)Mark’s newsletter, podcast, and Bloggingheads roots ... Is Trump really anti-internationalist? ... Who was the most pro-UN post-Cold-War president? ... Is global governance doomed? ... Scoring the UN’s post-Cold War track record ... ICC and ICJ 101 ... Why the WHO matters ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-02-0400 minThe Wright ShowThe China AI Panic (Robert Wright, Connor Echols, and Elizabeth Beavers)Some brief NonZero World housekeeping ... Trump, China and AI ... Connor's interview with national security law expert Elizabeth Beavers about Trump's use of terror designations ...2025-02-0100 minThe Wright ShowThe AI Tsunami Approaches (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Two theories of Musk’s “salute” ... DeepSeek-R1: Salvo or olive branch? ... The misappropriation of Musk’s AI doomerism ... Is the AI avatar era already upon us? ... Paul fills Bob in on his “empty threat” theory ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-01-3000 minThe Wright ShowBonus Episode: The Meaning of the DeepSeek Shock (Robert Wright & Connor Echols)...2025-01-2900 minThe Wright ShowAn American Jew Reflects on Gaza (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)Peter’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza ... Is it anti-Semitic to say Israeli policies foster anti-Semitism? ... Zionism’s many meanings ... How are American Jews grappling with Israel-Gaza? ... The Democrats’ Israel bind ... Is all hope lost for a two-state solution? ... Anti-Semitic tropes, the Israel lobby, and Elon’s “gesture” ... The unusual nature of Jewish identity ... How Israel’s defenders get Israel wrong ...2025-01-2800 minThe Wright ShowAmerican Problems, Global Solutions (Connor Echols & Natasha Hakimi Zapata)Intro ... Natasha's new book, Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe ...2025-01-2500 minThe Wright ShowHuman Agency vs "Agentic” AI (Robert Wright & Kanjun Qiu)Intro ... Kanjun’s role as CEO of AI research lab Imbue ... Worrying about a “Wall-E world” ... Building human-centric AI agents ... How far away is truly “agentic” AI? ... The road to AI serfdom ... Does the AI revolution call for a psychological revolution? ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-01-2300 minThe Wright ShowTrump 2.0 and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)Tom’s Pulitzer-Prize hat trick ... Why Beijing is relatively calm about Trump’s reelection ... China hawkism in the AI community ... What’s Trump’s logic re Greenland and Panama? ... On Israel-Palestine, is a two-state solution still possible? ... How a stable ceasefire in Gaza could transform Israeli politics ... Why Trump may be better than Biden on Israel-Palestine ... Bob and Tom debate a possible strike on Iran ... Prospects for peace in Ukraine under Trump ... How America is making a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely ...2025-01-2200 minThe Wright ShowTrump’s Gaza Win, Biden’s Legacy Woes (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Robert Wright)News bites ... Gaza ceasefire deep dive ... Bob joins to talk about Biden's legacy and Trump's imminent return to the White House ...2025-01-1800 minThe Wright ShowWorthwhile Canadian Humiliation (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Bob and Paul battle for audience sympathy ... Canada as 51st state: y’eh or n’eh? ... How Trump-y is Canada’s likely next leader? ... The humiliation theory of American politics ... Trump, Elon, and the two paths to bullying ... Facebook’s free speech about-face ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-01-1700 minThe Wright ShowIs the AI “Revolution” Overblown? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)Tim’s got a new podcast, and NonZero is hiring ... Is large language model progress reaching a plateau? ... Some shortcomings of AI today ... Human cognition compared to AI ... The impressive progress of "multimodal" AI ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-01-1500 minThe Wright Show"Bomb Iran" Goes Bipartisan (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Robert Wright)...2025-01-1000 minThe Wright ShowJimmy Carter vs. Donald Trump (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)The NonZero-American Prestige punk-rock crossover continues ... Is it time to freak out about Trump? ... Are international norms eroding? ... Jimmy Carter’s legacy ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-01-1000 minThe Wright ShowFixing the International Order (Robert Wright & Trita Parsi)Intro ... Toward a non-woolly-minded one-worldism ... Has the unipolar moment passed for good? ... International law vs the “rules-based order” ... Is major UN reform possible? ... AI, US-China, and multipolarity ... Rewriting the sanctions playbook ... Heading to Overtime ...2025-01-0700 minThe Wright ShowThe State of the NonZero Media Empire (Robert Wright)...2025-01-0300 minThe Wright ShowGlenn Loury Interviews Bob (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)The uncertain future of AI ... What would it mean to “lose the AI race” to China? ... The promise and peril of artificial general intelligence ... The international policy challenges of AI ... Can Trump deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine? ... Are there any good arguments for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense? ... Bob: With Iran weakened, Israel faces a decision: bombs or diplomacy ... The continuing assault on Gaza ... Antiwar speech codes ... Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing ... Missed opportunities to turn the temperature down in Israel ... Bob: The international community has little sway over Israel ... The advantages of cognitive empathy ...2024-12-3100 minThe Wright ShowQuasi-Year-End Edition (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Worthwhile Canadian conquest ... Late takes on Luigi Mangione ... Elon’s AI motivation ... Is the successor species sentient? (It matters!) ... Paul’s AI freakout has arrived ... AI buzzword of the year revealed ... Bluesky brutality ... Google’s experimental AI groks humanity ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-12-2800 minThe Wright ShowHow to End the Ukraine War (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Anatol Lieven)News Round-up ... How progressives should approach Trump's foreign policy ... Anatol Lieven joins to discuss Russia-Ukraine peace talks ...2024-12-2000 minThe Wright ShowMarriage on the Rocks (Robert Wright & Conn Carroll)Conn and the ancestry of this podcast ... Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy ... Modern matrimony by the numbers ... Are monogamous societies more egalitarian? ... Why the West went monogamous ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-12-2000 minThe Wright ShowThree Decades of Bad Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Scott Horton)Scott’s anti-war libertarianism and his new book, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine ... How the US made the Russia-Ukraine war more likely ... Was Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution a US-backed coup? ... America’s promise to the Soviet Union not to expand NATO ... Do US officials misunderstand Russia’s perspective? ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-12-1700 minThe Wright ShowAre Neocons Taking over Trump 2.0? (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and James Carden)...2024-12-1400 minThe Wright ShowReassembling Syria (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)Syria’s uncertain political future ... Has the Islamist rebel group HTS actually moderated? ... The extent of retributive violence since Assad fell ... Syria's complicated factional divides ... America's control of Syrian oil fields ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-12-1200 minThe Wright ShowCovid: The Evidence Against Natural Origin (Robert Wright & Yuri Deigin)Yuri’s high-stakes debate on Covid’s origins ... Pros and cons of Covid vaccines ... Do Covid “coincidences” point to a lab leak? ... Does the pattern of Covid’s initial spread suggest zoonotic origin? ... Why the Wuhan market may have amplified Covid’s spread ... Covid’s lineages A and B ... US-China collaboration in the Wuhan lab’s virology research ...2024-12-1000 minThe Wright ShowIs the Assad Regime Collapsing? (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Bassam Barabandi)...2024-12-0700 minThe Wright ShowDebating the Hunter Biden Pardon (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)A masterclass in audience alienation ... Paul defends Biden’s paternal pardon ... Should family come before societal good? ... The costs of the Hunter pardon ... Was Hunter the victim of a witch hunt? ... Elon sues OpenAI (again) ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-12-0500 minThe Wright ShowAI and the China Question (Robert Wright & Nathan Labenz)Anthropic’s CEO comes out as a China hawk ... Why so many China hawks in the AI community? ... Gaming out the AGI takeoff timeline ... Last year’s OpenAI coup: What did Ilya see? ... Underappreciated dangers of the China chip war ... Are US tech leaders seeing China’s perspective clearly? ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-11-2700 minThe Wright ShowBibi's Legal Troubles, Trump's Confirmation Struggles (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols)...2024-11-2300 minThe Wright ShowBack Down the JFK Rabbit Hole (Robert Wright & Jefferson Morley)Bob’s trip down the JFK rabbit hole gets real ... Will Trump release the JFK files? ... What the CIA actually knew about Oswald, pre-assassination ... The damning Oswald-CIA connection Jeff uncovered ... Was there a second shooter? Bob’s on-the-ground research ... Bob’s research cont’d: grassy knoll geometry ... Was the alleged CIA cover-up just CYA? ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-11-2100 minThe Wright ShowElon vs Bluesky, Jake Paul vs Tyson, AI vs World Peace (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Are Bluesky pastures really greener? ... Dissecting SciAm editor’s Bluesky blowup ... Elon’s free speech stolen valor ... The “highlights” of the Paul-Tyson “fight” ... Has the military-industrial complex conquered the AI industry? ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-11-2000 minThe Wright ShowWill Trump Go Full-On Authoritarian? (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)Another high-synergy, brilliant collaboration ... Is Elon our first true oligarch? ... Trump assembles his Justice League of hawks ... Biden’s awful foreign policy team ... Trump’s plan to purge the military ... Will Trump go full-on authoritarian? ... Left-wing capitalists—and a discount offer ...2024-11-1500 minThe Wright ShowIs Trump a Good Fit for the AI Era? (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)Sam’s place on the AI accelerationist-pauser spectrum ... Predicting AI’s near-term impact ... Is regulating AI a fool’s errand? ... Does strong AI governance court authoritarianism? ... Can Trump and Elon be trusted on AI? ... How Sam thinks AI should be regulated ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-11-1300 minThe Wright ShowIs Trump Going Full-On Hawk? (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols)...2024-11-0900 minThe Wright ShowPost-Election Reflection Edition (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Election 2024: The view from Canada ... Paul praises Bob’s pre-election sermonette ... Why did Trump win? And who’s to blame? ... Did DEI doom Kamala? ... A Kamala campaign post-mortem ... What policies will President Trump 2.0 prioritize? ... The art of the Trump ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-11-0700 minThe Wright Show2024 Pre-Election Extravaganza (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)Is Mickey all-in on Trump? ... The “garbage” wars and their aftermath ... Kamala’s path(s) to victory ... Mickey explains the logic of voting for Trump ... Why Trump sucks, why Kamala sucks ... Bob doles out (p)recriminations ... Will Israel-Iran escalate? ... How Kamala could win Mickey’s vote ... Why did Kamala go negative? ... Mickey plays pundit defender ... Which swing state looks worst for Kamala? ... How Biden made war in Taiwan more likely ... Four Dem sex “scandals” ... Bob trashes Trump’s tariffs ... Bob looks for a silver-lining to a second Trump term ... Elon Musk, the oligarch’s oligarch ...2024-10-3100 minThe Wright ShowChina Viewed from China (Robert Wright & Peter Hessler)Peter’s new book, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education ... Have Chinese people become less hostile to America? ... What Americans get wrong about China ... Why Peter thinks Covid didn’t come from a lab ... China’s transformative recent decades ... Respect for authority in Chinese culture ... Change in China between Peter’s two teaching stints there ... Why the Chinese political system may change dramatically ...2024-10-2800 minThe Wright ShowUkraine War Escalates, Kamala Goes Full Cheney (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and ???)...2024-10-2600 minThe Wright ShowElon, Trump, and Other Enigmas (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)Bob: The oligarchy has arrived ... What do the odd 2024 betting markets mean for the race? ... Trump on Palmer’s manhood: a closer look ... The Elon empathy enigma ... Coates’s controversial cognitive-empathizing ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-10-2300 minThe Wright ShowThe Middle East After Sinwar (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols)...2024-10-1900 minThe Wright ShowIs the Chip War against China Backfiring? (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)What is the chip war intended to accomplish? ... How China sees the chip war ... Is Huawei a threat to US national security? ... Paul: The chip restrictions on China are unprecedented ... How Biden boosted China’s chip industry ... Clear costs and unclear benefits of the chip war ...2024-10-1500 minThe Wright ShowIsrael's Looming Attack on Iran (Andrew Day & Connor Echols)...2024-10-1200 minThe Wright ShowOctober 7th: One Year Later (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)The time Ron helped un-cancel Jimmy Carter ... How has 10/7 affected American Jews? ... Israel’s place in US politics post-10/7 ... What a second Trump term could mean for Israel-Palestine ... Could the current trauma in the Middle East eventually revive the two-state solution? ... Making sense of Israel’s military strategy ... Criticism of Israel, left vs right ... Heading to Overtime ...2024-10-1000 min
Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedCreating Content for the Algorithm in the Sky (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Douglas Lain)How Doug came to run the leftwing book publisher Zer0 Books, and why he got kicked out ... Dave Chappelle, cancel culture, and the attention economy ... Doug narrates his ejection from Zer0 ... Doug's new company, Diet Soap Media ... How Bloggingheads was ahead of its time (yet failed to conquer the globe) ... How you can help shape the future of Culturally Determined ...2022-01-0300 min
The Wright ShowThe Dharma of Bob 8: A Cosmic View of Our Situation (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)What part of secular-guru space (if any) does Bob occupy? ... On the origin of Bob’s theses (by means of natural selection) ... The mind-boggling mystery of consciousness ... Could evolution have a larger purpose? ... The “global brain” as the flowering of natural selection’s seed ... Saving our species by transcending some species-typical tendencies ... The algorithm of evolution as “the Logos” ... How cognitive biases get in the way of global cooperation ... The positive feeling of negative emotions (but can mindfulness feel even better?) ... Bob explains his recent writings on tribalism ... Bob: You are an expression of "the [evolutionary] Logos" ... Bob’s latent-functionality theory of epip...2021-11-2400 minThe Wright ShowThe Dharma of Bob 7: Cognitive Bias and Conflict (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)Remembering Michael Brooks ... The existential stakes of enlightenment ... Overcoming the affective dimension of cognitive bias ... Bringing broader awareness to the concept of cognitive bias ... Cognitive bias and the roots of war ... The folly of feedback loops ... Quelling our primitive retributive impulses ... Taking a mulligan in your meditation practice ... Focusing on the hindrances ... Can you fail at meditation? ...2021-09-2200 minThe Wright ShowContesting Determinism (Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman)Oliver's new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals ... Oliver outlines “compatibilism,” the idea that free will and determinism can coexist ... Bob: Everyone should be a free will agnostic ... The occasionally dramatic consequences of arguments against free will ... Would determinism require us to reform our approach to criminal justice? ... A (possible) quantum hack for free will vs. determinism ... Bob thinks compatibilism is bullshit ... ... ... but Oliver tries to persuade him there's something to it ... Oliver: No position on free will and determinism is free of contradiction ...2021-09-1500 minThe Wright ShowThe Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (Robert Wright & John Horgan)John's recent bout of fever-induced hallucinations ... Does math actually help you understand QM? ... What experiments in QM have and have not verified ... John: All interpretations of QM are bad ... What do we want from science? ... "An operating system for reality" ...2021-09-0800 minThe Wright ShowDebating the Sexual Psychology of Men and Women (Robert Wright & Agustín Fuentes)Disavowing the naturalistic fallacy ... Why “sex” may not mean what you think it means ... Did evolution make women “choosier” about sex partners than men? ... Haggling over the price of sperm and eggs ... Agustín: Empirical studies complicate evolutionary psychology’s theoretical models ... The evolutionary significance of non-reproductive sex ... Why are males bigger than females in our species? ... Looking at pornography (for insights into human evolution) ... Are male and female sexual jealousy systematically different? ...2021-08-2500 minThe Wright ShowTime Management for Mortals (Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman)Oliver’s new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals ... Why is it so hard to accept the limits of our productivity? ... Prioritizing mindfully ... Heideggerian time management ... Finding value in even "meaningless" work ... Reducing the lure of distractions ... Ten tools for embracing your finitude ... Five (pretty intense) questions for reflection ...2021-08-0400 minThe Wright ShowThe Dharma of Bob 6: The Explain/Excuse Conflation (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)Josh's aversion to the term "guru" ... Explaining the explain/excuse conflation ... The (possible) evolutionary origins of (biased) arguing ... Are humans mismatched to their modern environment? ... Building strengths vs. addressing deficiencies ... Defusing attribution error ... Making cognitive empathy cool ... Using meditation to strengthen cognitive empathy ... The mythical side of Bob ... Rationalists, effective altruists, and other possible fellow travelers ...2021-07-0700 minThe Wright ShowShould Darwin Be Cancelled? (Robert Wright & Agustín Fuentes)Agustín on what he was and wasn’t saying in his controversial Science piece on Darwin ... What is biological anthropology? ... What social media critiques of Agustín’s editorial missed ... Untangling Darwin’s attitudes toward race and genocide ... Darwin’s worries about his theory’s acceptance ... What do female gibbons want? ... Agustín: Commonly used racial categories are unscientific ... The changing rules for competition among males ... Okay, so should we cancel Darwin or not? ...2021-06-0900 minThe Wright ShowSaving the World One Podcast at a Time (Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin)Defining effective altruism ... Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’ ... Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change? ... The Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How cognitive biases fuel tribalism ... Bob: We need a psychological revolution ... Are external threats the best way to bring people together? ... The balance between surveillance and public safety ... Bob: Let's retire the word 'apologist' ... Making rationality cool ... Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in "The Moral Animal" ...2021-05-2500 minThe Wright ShowThe Dharma of Bob 5: Mindful Defiance (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)Josh tries to help Bob retool his meditation practice ... Identifying the purpose of your practice ... What to do when your mind wanders ... Tuning your mind ... The Four Rs ... Can mindfulness help us bolster our courage? ... Learning to tolerate blowback from your tribe ... Suffering and the psychology of tribalism ... Developing a non-zero-sum relationship with your own mind ... So you say you've been called a neofascist... ...2021-05-1200 minThe Wright ShowDespite Our Best Intentions (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)The value of defying your tribe ... Egocentric bias and attribution error ... The thin line between between courage and acting like an asshole ... Why do we punish people for unintentional transgressions? ... To understand all is to forgive all … ... … but forgiveness won’t get you retweets ... Are people’s politics as irrational as they seem? ... William James’ preternatural insight into human psychology ... Should the Philip Roth biography have been pulled? ... Reliving the worst day of your life ...2021-05-0500 minThe Wright ShowCircling the Elephant (Robert Wright & John Thatamanil)John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity ... John’s early religious sensibility ... The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism ... Grappling with the human predicament ... Approaches to ultimate reality ... John’s brush with non-dualistic experience ... Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist ... Touching the infinite elephant ...2021-04-2800 minThe Wright ShowThe Dharma of Bob 4: Averting the Apocalypse (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)Who you callin' bodhisattva? ... Outlining the Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How meditation can make us better global citizens ... Why we need “cognitive crampons” ... Transcend and include ... The varieties of meditative experience ... Achieving micro-enlightenment ... The benefits of confronting your dark side ... Building a cognitively empathetic grassroots movement ...2021-03-2300 minThe Wright ShowKant’s Transcendental Philosophy (Robert Wright & David Ottlinger)Distinguishing between the numinous and the noumenal ... Kant’s religious vision ... The Copernican revolution in philosophy ... What, if anything, does the Buddhist idea of emptiness have to do with Kant? ... The transcendental status of space and time ... Can the Matrix help us understand Kant? ... Distinguishing between the noumenal and the phenomenal ... Can we transcend our phenomenal experience of the world? ...2021-03-0300 minThe Wright ShowTen Keys to Reality (Robert Wright & Frank Wilczek)What got Frank his Nobel Prize ... Frank's new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality ... Solving the mystery of dark matter ... Can quantum physics make sense? ... Frank: Mind emerges from matter, not the other way around ... Can you love an automaton? ... Complementarity as scientific concept and everyday attitude ... How Frank's Catholic upbringing influenced his scientific thinking ... Is reality an algorithm? ... The limits of human intelligence ...2021-02-2400 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedWhen Brands Come Alive (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Nathan Allebach)How Nathan used @steak_umm to revolutionize marketing on Twitter ... Weird Twitter vs. @steak_umm ... The complicated role that irony plays on Brand Twitter ... The bizarre trend of brands insulting potential customers ... Nathan wrestles with the ethics of advertising ... A brief history of Brand Twitter ... Nathan's massively viral tweet thread on Millennial mental health ... Twitter's crazy risk/reward ratio ... Nathan offers Bloggingheads some social media advice ...2019-08-0200 min
The Champions of Purposeful Change PodcastCritiquing Gillette – Aryeh Cohen-Wade, Bloggingheads.tvAryeh Cohen-Wade (Bloggingheasd.tv) and Bill Gullan (Finch Brands)
Brand consultant Bill on Gillette’s controversial new ad on masculinity
Bill explains what a brand consultant does
Why Gillette took a big risk
Was a conservative backlash part of Gillette’s plan?
Was the ad a success?
Pepsi’s disastrous political ad and Nike’s successful political ad
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Chris RibackRobert Wright, Writer & Editor of Bloggingheads.tv (10-27-12)It seems there are no small issues in Robert Wright’s world. From the Evolution of God and the role of religion in social order to the philosophical connections between science and how we behave, Wright has taken on some of the biggest questions of our time. Robert Wright is editor of Bloggingheads.TV, author of several best-sellers, contributor to The Atlantic and, in 2009, was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Tonight, we start between the big and the small, with the upcoming elections.2012-12-2909 min