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Economics Matters with Laurence KotlikoffGlenn Loury on the Country and Race RelationsGlenn is an absolutely brilliant economist and a public intellectual extraordinaire. In addition, Glenn is the pioneer of podcasting by academic economists. Glenn's remarkable podcast -- The Glenn Show -- debuted in 2008. In this episode of Economics Matters -- the Podcast, I ask Glenn to talk about the Glenn Show, including the topics and guests he's had during the show's now almost two-decade run. But as you'll hear/see, Glenn also uses this occasion to vigorously convey his long-held positions on race relations and the path to improving them. In particular, he makes a very strong case that Blac...
2026-02-2659 min
BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)The Past and Future of Digital Media (Robert Wright & Mike Pesca)Are Bob and Mike the godfathers of podcasting? ... Slate and the origins of podcasting ... NotebookLM’s humanless podcasts ... From blogs to Substack ... Looking back at BloggingHeads ... The tribalizing influence of algorithms ... New news models ... What happened to the rules in professional sports? ... The consequences of paying college athletes ... Mike's comprehensive take on sports gambling ... Heading into OT: The perils of opining on Israel ...
2026-01-1500 min
Bloggingheads.tvThe Past and Future of Digital Media (Robert Wright & Mike Pesca)Are Bob and Mike the godfathers of podcasting? ... Slate and the origins of podcasting ... NotebookLM’s humanless podcasts ... From blogs to Substack ... Looking back at BloggingHeads ... The tribalizing influence of algorithms ... New news models ... What happened to the rules in professional sports? ... The consequences of paying college athletes ... Mike's comprehensive take on sports gambling ... Heading into OT: The perils of opining on Israel ...
2026-01-1500 minBloggingheads.tvNASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright & Joel Achenbach)Teaser ... Joel’s legendary Bloggingheads line ... NASA’s new chief: More than a Musk toady? ... Why we’re still not living in Star Trek ... The space alien question ... Can we make the moon program great again? ... Heading to Overtime ...
2026-01-0600 minBhTV: The Wright Show (audio)NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright & Joel Achenbach)Teaser ... Joel’s legendary Bloggingheads line ... NASA’s new chief: More than a Musk toady? ... Why we’re still not living in Star Trek ... The space alien question ... Can we make the moon program great again? ... Heading to Overtime ...
2026-01-0600 minBhTV: The Wright Show (audio)20 Years Ago, Bloggingheads Was a Trailblazer, with Robert Wright (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Robert Wright)A brief message from Bob ... Bob and former Bloggingheads.tv staffer and contributor Aryeh Cohen-Wade reflect on the legacy of Bloggingheads.tv, the pioneering website Bob co-founded in 2005. Bob and Aryeh discuss how the site and the technology that powered it anticipated modern trends in online media. They also consider whether Twitter still has any use for journalists, the pros and cons of Substack, and whether Culturally Determined should pivot back to video. ...
2025-11-2700 minBloggingheads.tv20 Years Ago, Bloggingheads Was a Trailblazer, with Robert Wright (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Robert Wright)A brief message from Bob ... Bob and former Bloggingheads.tv staffer and contributor Aryeh Cohen-Wade reflect on the legacy of Bloggingheads.tv, the pioneering website Bob co-founded in 2005. Bob and Aryeh discuss how the site and the technology that powered it anticipated modern trends in online media. They also consider whether Twitter still has any use for journalists, the pros and cons of Substack, and whether Culturally Determined should pivot back to video. ...
2025-11-2700 min
Culturally Determined20 Years Ago, Bloggingheads Was a Trailblazer, with Robert WrightBob Wright reflects on the legacy of the Bloggingheads.tv, the pioneering website he co-founded in 2005. Aryeh and Bob discuss how the site and the technology that powered it anticipated modern trends in online media. They also consider whether Twitter still has any use for journalists, the pros and cons of Substack, and whether Culturally Determined should pivot back to video. Recorded October 28, 2025LINKSRobert Wright's Nonzero podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robert-wrights-nonzero/id505824847The Nonzero Newsletterhttps://www.nonzero.org/
2025-11-071h 05
DarkHorse PodcastHas Bret Strayed from Reason? Bret Speaks with Robert Wright on DarkhorseBret speaks with Robert Wright on the Darkhorse Podcast. They discuss Robert’s suggestion that Bret’s ideas have strayed from plausibility. Find Robert on Twitter: @robertwrighter (https://twitter.com/robertwrighter)Find Robert on bloggingheads: https://bloggingheads.tv/ *****Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. Check out the DHP store...
2022-11-172h 01
The Remnant with Jonah GoldbergTerms of EngagementJuly’s drive-time Remnant extravaganza is here, and it’s as deprived of substance as you’d expect. Wedding proposals, cruises, road trips, and other offbeat subjects are all discussed at unnecessary length, but a modicum of serious punditry is also mixed in on the upcoming midterms and the potential for a Trump re-election campaign announcement. Plus, tune in to hear Jonah detail his bygone days as an opera supernumerary and the rebranding of Bloggingheads.tv.Show Notes:- What’s Next Summit Tickets- Last month’s drive-time- Guy’s Kiss trip
2022-07-161h 09Culturally DeterminedCognitive Empathy and Ukraine, with Robert WrightOn a special crossover edition of "Culturally Determined" and "The Wright Show," Aryeh asks Bob about cognitive empathy and how to apply it to Putin's war in Ukraine. Plus: Is Mickey Kaus infecting Bob's brain? And does Bloggingheads.tv still have a reason for being?Recorded April 13, 2022LINKS:The Nonzero newsletterhttps://nonzero.substack.com/The Wright Show on Bloggingheads.tvhttps://bloggingheads.tv/programs/wrightshowFollow @robertwrighterFollow @AryehCW Hosted on Acast. See acast...
2022-04-191h 12
The Modest Rebel Podcast#47 - Glenn Loury AriaMatt shares an excerpt on predeterminism and demoralization from the Glenn Show on Bloggingheads.tv featuring Glenn Loury and John McWhorter. John refers to Glenn's analogy as an aria; Matt agrees.Excerpt taken from the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xc9fyt8ms&t=9sYou can also listen to this conversation on the Bloggingheads channel on podcast apps.Please subscribe to this channel for podcast episodes, argument and debate analysis, dictionary entries, and other original content.Check out my website for The Modest Rebel Dictionary, Hardly A...
2022-01-0914 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 Glenn ShowRobert Wright — Non-Zero-Sum Thinking on the World StageFor this edition of The Glenn Show, I’m joined by someone who may be familiar to long-time viewers: Bob Wright. Bob is a distinguished journalist and the author of many books, including The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and Why Buddhism is True. He also happens to be the co-founder of Bloggingheads, the platform on which The Glenn Show was born and has flourished. In our conversation, Bob walks us through the early days of Bloggingheads and the flash of inspiration that led him to create the site. We then move on to discuss Bob’s ideas about evol...
2021-09-2056 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Ghosts of American History (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Bessner)The absurd exercise of ranking presidential greatness ... Aryeh: We all agree on Lincoln and Washington, but then it's a fight ... Daniel: George W. Bush was much worse than Trump ... Did America react hysterically to the storming of the Capitol? ... Ghostbusters as a cultural expression of Reagan's America ... Nostalgia and cultural decadence ... Critical race theory, 1619, and national mythmaking ... Daniel's new podcast, "American Prestige" ...
2021-07-1200 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedA Literary Analysis of Recent American History (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Christian Lorentzen)Christian on gothic, sentimental, and ironic strains in recent US history ... Biden the pre-Boomer sentimentalist ... Trump as a postmodern gothic figure ... Why the gothic and the sentimental are two sides of the same coin ... Aryeh: It turns out that irony is never actually dead ... Who is the Great American Boomer novelist? ... Christian's review of Hunter Biden's memoir ...
2021-06-1800 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedOn Millennial Jews (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rabbi Ari Hart)Rabbi Ari introduces himself ... How do Millennial American Jews understand their Judaism? ... The unique Jewish community in Skokie, Illinois ... Identity, tribalism, and communal thickness ... The failures of Hebrew School education ... Rising anti-Semitism on both right and left in America ... Why Millennials must develop a mature relationship with Judaism and Zionism ... Rabbi Ari: "Judaism is ultimately not about you" ...
2021-06-1500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedSpecial Non-Cheugy Edition (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Nicholas Clairmont)Nicholas's essay, "The Language of Privilege" ... Bottom-up vs. top-down language change (e.g. "cheugy") ... Nicholas: This is a mean way of talking ... The lefties who mock woke language ... Coca-Cola and the CIA got woke. Hooray? ... Trump's trolling and lack of virtue ... Why did the anti-Trumpers call themselves "the Resistance"? ...
2021-05-3100 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the worldIn 2003, Saddam Hussein refused to let Iraqi weapons scientists leave the country to be interrogated. Given the overwhelming domestic support for an invasion at the time, most key figures in the U.S. took that as confirmation that he had something to hide — probably an active WMD program.
But what about alternative explanations? Maybe those scientists knew about past crimes. Or maybe they’d defect. Or maybe giving in to that kind of demand would have humiliated Hussein in the eyes of enemies like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
According to today’s guest Robert Wright, host o...
2021-05-281h 36Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedAmazon, Chipotle, and Unions (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Alex N. Press)Amazon launches "AmaZen" to keep its warehouse workers mindful ... Amazon's total war against unions ... Jeff Bezos blasts off ... Will the feds break up Amazon? ... NYC sues Chipotle, alleging 600,000 labor violations (some involving rats) ... Why many restaurant workers are not returning ... Alex argues for passing the PRO Act ...
2021-05-2400 min
High NoonJohn McWhorter – On the Evolution of Language and How Identity Has Become Our New ReligionIn the fourth episode of High Noon, Inez Stepman talks with Professor John McWhorter, a professor of linguistics at Columbia University and host of a podcast on his subject of expertise called Lexicon Valley. He is also a co-host of the popular Glenn Show, along with Glenn Loury on Bloggingheads TV, as well as an important and valued commentator on matters of race and identity.Stepman and McWhorter discuss the subjects of two different books he has out right now. The first, on the history of English profanities, is Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter, T...
2021-05-1938 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedAfter the Orgy (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Default Friend)Default Friend's new podcast, After the Orgy ... 2008 as a hinge point in sexual culture ... Is sex positivity over? ... DF: Young people want to get married and have kids sooner ... Ancient wisdom and cosplaying as a way of life ... Get ready for hot vaxx summer! ... Why today's teens are confessing less online ... Has moral conservatism returned to the right? ...
2021-05-1700 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedA Critique of the Contemporary Left (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Ben Burgis)Ben's new book, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns ... Joe Rogan, Louis CK, and the online left's moralistic overreactions ... A material analysis of how Twitter distorts political movements ... Stalin nostalgia, guillotine gifs, and other performative radicalness ... Critiquing left rhetoric on criminal justice ... Aryeh: Cancel culture is neoliberal ... Ben: The left has made itself vulnerable to false accusations ... A socialist assessment of Biden's first 100 days ...
2021-05-1000 min
The Unspeakeasy With Meghan DaumThe Racism of Antiracism: A Conversation With John McWhorterJohn McWhorter teaches linguistics and music history at Columbia University, is the author of more than 20 books, a contributor to The Atlantic and the host of the Slate podcast Lexicon Valley. If you're a fan of The Unspeakable, you may know John best from his commentary around issues of race. Since 2007, he has been in regular conversation with economist Glenn Loury on the Bloggingheads platform, where is his known as a uniquely honest voice on the complexities-and often the hypocrisies-of certain progressive antiracist orthodoxies. Last summer, he began writing a new book on this subject. The Elect: The Threat to a...
2021-05-031h 22Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Philip Roth Biography Mess (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Laura Marsh)Accusations of sexual assault against Philip Roth's biographer, Blake Bailey ... Laura's early negative review of the biography ... How Bailey justified Roth's mistreatment of women ... Aryeh worries about an alleged rapist framing the historical record ... Laura argues against the "this changes everything" reaction ... Criticizing the actions of Norton, the book's publisher ... What Laura found in Roth's novels that she didn't expect ... What do we do with the fact that many great authors were awful people? ...
2021-04-2900 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedJuggalos, Simps, and Cat Guys (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Magdalene Taylor)Mourning MEL Magazine ... Everything you ever wanted to know about Juggalos ... Do Juggalos vote? ... Why Magdalene identifies as a Juggalette ... Simps, incels, and pickup artists ... Trends in male horniness ... Should cat guys on dating apps pretend to not be cat guys? ... Male anxiety and the failures of media for men ...
2021-04-1900 min
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan469 - Robert Wright (Author and Journalist)Robert Wright is an American journalist and author who writes about science, history, politics, and religion. He has written five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (1999), The Evolution of God (2009), and Why Buddhism is True (2017). He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv and the founder and editor-in-chief of Meaningoflife.tv. (Conversation begins at 35 minutes in.) Bob on Twitter. Find me on Instagram or Twitter. Please consider supporting this podcast. This Amazon affi...
2021-04-121h 58Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedKnow Your Enemy (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Matthew Sitman)Matt's podcast on the conservative movement, Know Your Enemy ... Matt's journey from movement conservative to democratic socialist ... Trump and the conservative intellectuals who tried to defend him ... Can there be a Trumpism without Trump? ... A cheer or two for the anti-Trump neoconservatives ... Are all the young conservative intellectuals just grifters? ... What Matt still retains from his conservative days ... Joe Biden, our first publicly Catholic president ...
2021-03-3100 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Philip Roth We Don't Know (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jacques Berlinerblau)Jacques's essay on race in Philip Roth's fiction ... Roth and Updike, compare and contrast ... Was Roth always totally in control of his powers? ... How Roth depicted the Newark riots ... Portnoy's Complaint and offensive humor ... Will we be reading Roth in 30 years? ... Roth's fictional (and actual) treatment of women ... Reading the reviews of the new authorized Roth biography ...
2021-03-1100 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedOnly on OnlyFans (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Cathy Reisenwitz)All about OnlyFans, which is like Substack but for porn ... Parallels between online journalism and online porn ... Cathy's experiences on OnlyFans ... When the NY Post "outed" an NYC medic as being on OnlyFans ... Is Twitter going to embrace the OnlyFans model? ... Why Cathy moved away from free-market fundamentalism ... Are people who work in porn more likely to have grown up conservative? ...
2021-03-0200 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedFraming Britney (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Alana May Johnson)The new NYT documentary on Britney Spears ... The many ways the media mistreated Britney ... Revisiting the paparazzi, the head shaving, and the umbrella ... The conservatorship and the #FreeBritney movement ... Why we should have listened to the "leave Britney alone" guy ... Jason Alexander (the other one), K-Fed, and Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce ... Alana's book subscription project ...
2021-02-2400 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedFake Accounts (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Lauren Oyler)Lauren's new novel, Fake Accounts ... Autofiction in the disinformation age ... Why the novel's narrator is unnamed ... Berlin, the city of expats hanging out ... The uses and abuses of a fragmentary narrative ... Twitter is made out of people ... When a book reviewer publishes her first novel ...
2021-02-1700 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedWhy Are We Still on Twitter? (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Phoebe Maltz Bovy)Phoebe's new position as a senior editor at The Signal ... "Cleansing your timeline" vs. "doomscrolling" ... The agony and the ecstasy of Twitter ... Twitter's insane risk-reward ratio ... How Twitter makes unpopular ideas seem popular ... With Trump banned, will Twitter return to being a niche site for weirdos? ... Aryeh's twisted fascination with MAGA and QAnon Twitter bios ... Would we all be better off if social media didn't exist? ...
2021-02-1500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedQAnon as Symptom (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Bessner)Daniel's analysis of QAnon and the storming of the Capitol ... Is QAnon a religious cult? An alternative reality game run amok? ... Cultural vs. material explanations for Trump's rise ... Did the rioters get close to actually accomplishing anything? ... America's civic religion and why the left is unlikely to win ... Is Trump the worst president in American history? ... Aryeh praises and critiques Mickey Kaus ... The rise and fall of intellectual contrarianism ...
2021-01-2700 min
Breaking BattlegroundsBill Scher on the Biden Administration, Stimulus Bill, and Business RegulationsBroken Potholes is hosted by Sam Stone and Chuck Warren with guest Bill Scher. Bill is a freelance writer and podcaster exploring politics and history through the lens of pragmatism. He is a Contributing Editor to Politico Magazine and a Contributor to Real Clear Politics. He is the host of the history podcast "When America Worked: True Tales of America's Pragmatist Heroes," as well as co-host of "The DMZ" online show and podcast with conservative writer Matt Lewis produced by Bloggingheads.tv. Get full access to Breaking Battlegrounds at breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com/subscribe
2021-01-1943 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedArranged Marriages for Millennials (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Justin Murphy)Justin's new company that arranges marriages for Millennials and Zoomers ... Do city men and country women want to be forced to wed? ... The ideal eligible NYC bachelor: tall and anti-Trump ... Justin: I quit academia because it was "satanic" ... Justin's podcast, Chat for God ...
2021-01-1300 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedWe're Storming the Capitol, It's a Revolution! (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William R. Black)Reflections on a bizarre week in America ... Protest, riot, insurrection, coup—or something stupider? ... The postmodern politics of symbols and cosplay ... Aryeh: Blaming this on "white supremacy" is both inaccurate and bad politics ... The link between anti-Semitism and Flat Earthers ... Impeachment? Resignation and pardon? A return to normalcy? ... Bill worries about historiography in the digital realm after Trump's Twitter banning ... What will Trump's post-presidency look like? ...
2021-01-1000 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedMaterially Determined (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Tommy Craggs)Tommy's recent essay, "What’s the Matter With Cultural Politics?" ... Police defunding and the case against "backlash" ... Can the austerity stalemate be broken? ... How the debate over trans rights is and is not like the debate over gay marriage ... Tommy: Racial and gender identity affiliation can lead to labor consciousness ... Tommy praises the Oakland activists who seized an empty house ...
2020-12-3100 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe End of Takes (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Meghan Daum)Why Meghan is retiring from writing think pieces ... The devolution of the take, from op-eds to tweets ... The virtues of not knowing what to think ... Aryeh: The "Dr. Jill Biden" debate shows that the Trump era is ending ... The problems of too much speech ... Should we be optimistic about the future of the discourse? ...
2020-12-2400 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedSpeech and Censorship on YouTube (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Douglas Lain)The mysterious removal of Doug's YouTube video on "the Great Reset" ... Does YouTube have an anti–Alex Jones algorithm? ... Content moderation in an age of infinite content ... What videos should YouTube be taking down? ... Aryeh: The problem isn't people being silenced, it's too many people talking ... How YouTube helps spread conspiracy theories ... Should leftists reject Big Tech? ... Doug on the contemporary relevance of Christopher Lasch ...
2020-12-1800 min
הכל בלירה- ההיסטוריה הכלכלית של ישראלהקונגרס #193- אריאל קרלינסקיהקונגרס #193 עם אריאל קרלינסקי, כלכלן וחוקר בפורום קהלת, ואחת הצלעות בפודקאסט 'הרס יצירתי'. דיברנו על למה הגדלת החוב הממשלתי בזמן משבר הקורונה זה דווקא רעיון טוב, איך נדע שהחוב מסכן את הכלכלה, למה מענקים חד פעמיים לכלל האזרחים זה גם רעיון לא רע, הקרע בין הקהילה הליברלית וביבי, וקצת הסטוריה על המהפיכה התעשייתית ועליית הקומוניזם.
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2020-12-1239 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Particulars of Peter (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kelly Conaboy)Kelly's new book about her dog, The Particulars of Peter ... Everything you always wanted to know about Peter the dog ... Kelly: Dogs should be able to talk for 25 minutes a day ... The profound mysteries of the dog-human relationship ... "Doggo," "dog mom," and the cultural shift around pets ... Would you let your pet become a social media star? ... Dogs and the specter of death ...
2020-12-0800 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedNever Let a Crisis Go to Waste (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Ryan Cooper)Reviewing Obama's new memoir, A Promised Land ... Ryan excoriates Obama's response to the financial crisis ... Should Obama have gone much harder on the banks? ... Aryeh: Obama is an institutionalist to his core ... Was Obama just the wrong man for the job? ... Why the GOP gets away with radicalism but Democrats don't ... Is Biden's cabinet a team of nobodies? ... The mysterious nomination of Neera Tanden to OMB ... Aryeh: Maybe it's time to trust Biden's political instincts ...
2020-12-0200 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Great Jeopardy Rules (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Joanna Mang)How Joanna became a Jeopardy! champion ... The source of Alex Trebek's popularity ... Joanna on who should replace Trebek ... Why Aryeh was happy that he failed to get on Jeopardy! ... Trivia in the age of Google ... Is Vanderpump Rules the perfect reality show? ... A reality TV show starring people who grew up watching reality TV shows ... Aryeh's theory on the secret to the success of Great British Bake Off ...
2020-11-1500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedRacial Frauds and Drug Panics (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katrina Gulliver)The long history of white people claiming Native American ancestry ... White academics exposed as racial fakers ... Anatole Broyard and those who "passed" ... Katrina on Dances with Wolves, Avatar, and other "going native" narratives ... Aryeh's brief Biden brag ... Drug legalization today and drug panics of the past ... Race and the opioid crisis ...
2020-11-1200 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedMeet a Trump Voter (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & John Guthrie)John explains how he became a reluctant Trump voter ... How the threat of gun control pushed John towards Trump ... Is a vote against Biden a vote against woke ideology? ... Aryeh: Trump is bad for our brains and our souls ... Can Trumpism exist without Trump? ... Aryeh denies suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome ... Is the black vote in play? ... The party realignment that didn't happen ... Pessimism about a Biden presidency ...
2020-11-0200 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Old College Try (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Glenn Loury)Does Trump deserve to be re-elected? ... Examining "Trump Derangement Syndrome" ... Glenn's verdict on Trump's handling of Covid ... Aryeh: Biden is the candidate of returning us to normalcy ... What is college for? ... Aryeh's biggest college regret ... Issuing a challenge for Trump fans ...
2020-10-2900 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedHow Trump Ruined Political Comedy (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Dan Brooks)Dan's essay, "How President Trump Ruined Political Comedy" ... Why so many Trump-era Daily Show–style shows have failed ... Trump the insult comic ... Dan: The way liberals and conservatives understand comedy has changed ... Stephen Colbert and Steven Crowder's different varieties of racial humor ... Trump's clownishness vs. Obama's dignity ... Remember when Trump gave a medal to a hero dog? Or was that just a joke? ... Cuties, QAnon, and the return of conservative moralizing ... What might comedy look like during a Biden presidency? ...
2020-10-2500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Death of the Artist (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William Deresiewicz)Bill's new book, The Death of the Artist ... Why the "long tail" thesis was wrong ... How did the early dream of the Internet die? ... Blockbuster consolidation in fine art ... Luck and privilege ... Is art school a pyramid scheme? ... What is to be done? Bill has some thoughts ... Will the pandemic finish off the arts? ... Wokism as a moral figleaf for careerist college students ...
2020-10-2200 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedWhy Biden Will Win (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Robert Wright)Does Trump even want to be reelected? ... Debating Biden's and Trump's relative cognitive declines ... Aryeh: The material conditions will overpower campaign messaging ... Bob fears BLM is objectively helping Trump ... Aryeh's bold election prediction ... A unified theory of Bobism ... QAnon and a world without social media ...
2020-09-2900 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Artist Is President (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Christopher Grobe)Chris, a scholar of performance studies, defines performance art ... The two most important performance artists in America: Marina Abramović... ... ...and Donald Trump ... When Trump makes a show of "acting presidential" ... Pro wrestling, reality TV, and President Trump—which are real? ... Effective political performance by the Parkland students ... Trump's performance of victimhood ... Chris reviews the political conventions through the lens of performance ...
2020-09-1700 min
Living Mirrors with Dr. James CookeRobert Wright on understanding buddhist philosophy through evolutionary psychology | Living Mirrors #14Robert Wright is a journalist, bestselling author and is currently a Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Meaningoflife.tv and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv. His books include The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize, and Why Buddhism is True which is the topic that we focus on today.
2020-09-021h 26Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedModern Romance (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Laura Goldberg)Laura's history with online dating ... How men and women use dating apps differently ... Laura and Aryeh's dating profile red flags ... Swiping strategies ... Modern dating as a "game of who can care less" ... First date dilemmas ... Dating during Covid ... Laura's advice for people new to app dating ...
2020-08-2600 min
"Hammer Time" with Ralph SchoellhammerThe Global Wire Conversation - Race, Economics, and Culture with Glenn LouryIn today's conversation, Ralph talks to professor Glenn Loury about race, culture and economics. You can also find this conversation on our YouTube Channel.
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. As a prominent social critic and public intellectual, writing mainly on the themes of racial inequality and social policy, Professor Loury has published over 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad. He is a...
2020-08-1950 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedPutting Up and Pulling Down (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katrina Gulliver)Katrina on the historical origins of public statues ... Why 1880–1930 was the golden age of American statuary ... Why do we care so much about statues? ... If a statue is pulled down, where should it go? ... The strange saga of Rochester, NY's Frederick Douglass statue(s) ... Katrina on the false dichotomy between "tourists" and "travellers" ... The crucial role world travel plays on dating apps ... Which museums won't survive the pandemic? ...
2020-08-1300 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined"Hamilton" and Shakespeare (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Isaac Butler)Hamilton arrives on the small screen ... Interpreting the very last moment of the play ... Isaac connects Hamilton and Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 ... Prince Hal's unsympathetic ambition ... The two parts of Henry IV and the two acts of Hamilton ... A brilliant Muppets parody of Hamilton ... Hamilton in Trump's America ...
2020-08-0600 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedEverything in Moderation (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Leigh Stein)Leigh's new novel, Self Care ... Are social justice warriors sincere or cynical? ... On being a white author writing a black character in 2020 ... Why are all these white women apologizing on Instagram? ... The trials and tribulations of being a moderator ... Aryeh: Many of today's controversies come down to forum moderation ... Leigh: There's no restorative justice in cancel culture ... Would eliminating social media lead to a better world? ...
2020-07-2000 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedOpen Letters (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katie Herzog)Bari Weiss's very public resignation from the New York Times ... Is the NYT a toxic workplace? ... Why Katie signed the Harper's open letter ... Aryeh: The vagueness of the letter fueled the backlash ... Do we have a cancel culture problem or a Twitter culture problem? ... Katie critiques the counterletter ... The recent failed attempt to cancel Aryeh ... Do online subcultures trend toward toxicity? ...
2020-07-1600 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedWhat Are Cops Thinking? (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Peter Moskos)Looking for the truth between "Blue Lives Matter" and "ACAB" ... The rarely noted decline in police shootings ... What are the cops thinking? ... Peter: The police will never be fully demilitarized ... Aryeh: The underlying issue is widespread gun possession ... The Buffalo protester and cops who are bad at PR ... Peter: The actions of George Floyd's killer are baffling ... Peter argues that police abolition is "crazy" ... Peter lists his ideal police reforms ... The vast regional disparities in policing ...
2020-06-1600 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Mayor, the NYPD, and the Protests (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & David Klion)Bill de Blasio's rise to power as NYC's great progressive hope ... The very strange story of de Blasio and the Park Slope YMCA gym ... The moment that changed everything between de Blasio and the cops ... De Blasio's bungled reaction to the virus ... Bernie's loss and the socialist left's debate over "electoralism" ... Why did the protests go national so quickly? ... Dave: De Blasio is scared of the cops ... Are the protests good or bad for Trump? ... What will NYC look like post-pandemic? ...
2020-06-0900 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedClass and the Coronavirus (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Chris Arnade)Chris's cancelled tour of "back row" places in America ... Chris on class and the pandemic: "Everything screws the poor" ... The geographic spread of the disease ... Chris draws parallels between Trump and Hugo Chavez ... Aryeh: Boring grandpa Joe will beat crazy grandpa Donald ... How Trump co-opted the GOP establishment ... The Republican senator who loves Chris's book ... Can a right populism succeed without xenophobia and racism? ...
2020-05-2700 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedA Return to Normalcy (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Bessner)Why did Bernie lose to Biden? ... When "common sense" is an ideology ... Daniel sees Bernie as the Barry Goldwater of democratic socialism ... Would a Biden administration do anything for people under 40? ... Aryeh charts his ideological path since 2008 ... Daniel: Republicans are better at politics because they understand what politics is ... The Spanish Flu in historical context ...
2020-04-2800 min
The Sacred Speaks57: Optimism, Uncertainty, and Doubt. A conversation with John Horgan.As a science writer with The Scientific American, a primary concern for John Horgan is how science both supports the evolution of human understanding, and he is also very interested in exploring the shortcomings of science as a methodology and the limitations of the scientists whose conclusions have a direct impact on the world.
In this conversation, we discuss the current pandemic and how crisis and trauma shift innovation and the scientific ideas that inform the zeitgeist. One of John’s primary interests is the limitations of science, with emphasis on how much time and energy we need to be in...
2020-04-231h 21Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedCorona Economics Q and A (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Karl Smith)Assessing the initial economic response to the pandemic ... What the Federal Reserve's $1.5 trillion injection actually did ... Stimulus checks and other direct assistance ... How a rent strike could lead to a banking crisis ... Should we fear inflation? ... Is a pivot to austerity inevitable? ... The Defense Production Act and the prospect of a wartime economy ... After the threat passes, what will the recovery look like? ... What Karl is most worried about ...
2020-04-0400 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedA Critique of Dating Apps (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Default Friend)Default Friend's critique of dating apps ... Bumble's false aura of female empowerment ... An infinite number of alternative romantic partners/Netflix shows ... App dating vs. IRL dating ... The phony promise of the "best" mate for you ... Girlbossism, gender differences, and sexual shame ...
2020-03-0900 min
The Moral Science PodcastConsciousness, Evolution, and Morality with Robert WrightRobert Wright is a journalist and the best-selling author of Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, The Moral Animal, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Evolution of God, and Why Buddhism is True. He has edited for Time and Slate and has written for The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, and New York Times Magazine, among others. He is a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary and the founder of the Nonzero Foundation, as well as a director of Bloggingheads.tv and MeaningofLife.tv, where you can...
2020-03-0359 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedHow Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rachel Vorona Cote)Rachel's new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today ... Rachel on writing very frankly about her personal life ... The origin and definition of "too much" ... Is the book a defense of too muchness? ... Should women be treated more like men? Men more like women? Neither? ... Embracing your emotions vs. detaching yourself from them ... Trump as the epitome of "too much" ... The constraints binding female politicians ...
2020-02-2600 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThis Is Not a Conspiracy Theory (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kirby Ferguson)Why it took eight years for Kirby to finish This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory ... Kirby: "Conspiracies are logistically impossible" ... Bernie fans get conspiratorial after the botched Iowa caucuses ... Donald Trump, the Conspiracist-in-Chief ... QAnon and conspiracism as lifestyle ... Will Epstein's death be the JFK assassination of our era? ... What should you do if a loved one is falling into conspiracy theories? ...
2020-02-1400 min
The Sacred Speaks37: The Mind-Body Problems. A Conversation with John Horgan.The title of the John Horgan’s book, The Mind-Body Problems, with the addition of the “s”articulates the core of the mind-body problem – that it is plural. John Horgan is not content with one story that solves for the myriad problems we humans encounter when we explore reality and hunt to discover who we are and what matters most. John has been a scientific journalist for over 35 years and as someone who is paid to be curious he has commented on, written about, queried, and learned about some of the most ubiquitous and obscure scientific theories and discoveries science...
2020-02-111h 44Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedTim Allen, Jordan Peterson, and Friendly Aliens (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William R. Black)When Tim Allen proposed an ideology he called "masculinism" ... The 1950s sitcom as America's mythic Eden ... How Christian churches are grappling with Jordan Peterson ... Bill: There is always anxiety that churches are too feminized ... "Storming Area 51" and the idea that aliens will be our friends ... The strange fight over cultural appropriation and the word "y'all" ... What happened to entertainment that's fun for the whole family? ...
2020-02-0500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedTrump, Television, and the Fracturing of America (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & James Poniewozik)James's new book on Trump and television, Audience of One ... When TV was about the "least objectionable programming" ... The 1980s, when cable fractured TV and Trump started to rise ... Trump's postmodern transformation into a signifier of wealth ... How David Letterman and Trump used each other ... Aryeh recalls his days watching The Apprentice ... James: The Trump campaign was "like a plane that crashes every day" ... The master of TV becomes TV's slave ... What did Trump understand about TV that Hillary didn't? ...
2020-01-2800 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedTwitter and the Oscars (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kat Rosenfield)Aryeh wonders: Does Twitter matter? ... Why people on Twitter like to get mad and stay mad ... The very white and male Oscar nominations ... Kat defends Stephen King's comments on diversity and quality ... Why do so many duds win Best Picture? ... Why journalists should spend less time on Twitter ...
2020-01-1900 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedAll About Tulsi (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Michael Tracey)So what's the deal with Tulsi Gabbard? ... Tulsi's critique of the Democratic party ... Who counts as a "crank"? ... The many reasons Tulsi drives people crazy ... Why is she not just barnstorming for Bernie? ... The theory that she's a secret Trump agent ... Does Tulsi support Indian PM Modi's Hindu nationalism? ... Tulsi's foreign policy beyond the Middle East ... A brief exchange on the wisdom of impeachment ...
2020-01-1000 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Kaufman)Initial reactions to The Rise of Skywalker ... Aryeh: The movie's problems start in the first ten seconds ... The bizarre revelation of Rey's parentage ... Kylo Ren's sudden personality change ... Did the finale violate a central rule of the Star Wars universe? ... Why the Marvel movies mostly worked and the new trilogy mostly didn't ... Dan: Massive corporations plus social media blowback have ruined these films ... Speculating on the future of the saga ...
2020-01-0300 min
Half Hour of Heterodoxy74, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, How Useful is Privilege Checking?Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@tweetertation) is my guest today. She’s the author of The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can’t be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage, published in 2017.
Her essays on privilege and politics have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other publications. She also co-hosts the heterodox show Feminine Chaos with Kat Rosenfeld, available in streaming video on bloggingheads tv and as a podcast. We’ll be talking about her book and some of her more recent articles on privilege.
Here is a transcript of this episode.
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2019-12-0533 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedOK Boomer (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Kaufman)Explaining the wildly popular "ok boomer" meme ... Why Dan is both critical of and sympathetic toward "ok boomer" ... The Marxist critique of woke capitalism ... Twitter users offer bad life advice given by Boomers ... Do today's young people have a chip on their shoulders? ... Dan: We're still trying to develop a theoretical understanding of the Internet ... Why do college students seem to be more afraid of debate? ...
2019-11-1500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined"Watchmen," Scorsese, and "Joker" (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Milton Lawson)HBO's very strange Watchmen sequel ... Why is race the show's central theme? ... What is the show trying to say about cops? ... Martin Scorsese disses comic book movies, nerds go nuts ... Milton reviews Joker, the most chattered about movie of the year ... Why so many people prejudged the film ... Milton's graphic novel Kickstarter project about Orson Welles ... Milton's documentary about comic conventions, Tabling ...
2019-10-3000 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedConvince a Bernie Skeptic (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Micah Uetricht)Aryeh asks Micah to convince him to vote for Bernie Sanders ... Could Bernie lead a mass movement for progressive change? ... Micah: There's a hunger in America for transformative politics ... What does Bernie mean when he calls himself a socialist? ... Bernie is old, angry, and he yells—does that matter? ... The meaning of the AOC and Ilhan Omar endorsements ... Why do people still complain about BernieBros? ... How lefties view Warren ...
2019-10-2500 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedIs Cancel Culture Real? (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Mellie Macker)Mellie: Cancel culture is both real and fake ... Saturday Night Live's weird place in American culture ... Lenny Bruce was driven to his death but Louis CK is performing again ... Is cancellation just the market working itself out? ... Bret Stephens plays the Twitter martyr ... The Bagel Boss guy and other everyday malefactors who go viral ... Twitter libs try and fail to cancel Mellie ... Roy Cohn and the case for cancellation ...
2019-09-2800 min
Nationalism and the Culture Wars podcastBhtv - 2019 - 08 - 21 - Wright - KaufmannRobert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eric Kaufmann (Whiteshift, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Eric’s new book on populism and immigration, Whiteshift 0:12
Why it’s counterproductive to call Trump supporters racist 8:12
Eric’s vision of an American ethnic nationalism 13:12
Bob: Ideally, shouldn’t we get past ethnicity? 23:21
Will mixed-race children of the future identify as white? 30:18
Debating whether a purely civic nationalism is viable 37:28
The real reasons most white voters backed Trump 45:49
The two Democrats who Eric thinks would do best against Trump 57:28
Is ethnic affinity in our genes? 59:28
2019-09-151h 13Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedA Comments Section of One's Own (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Joanna Mang)Joanna's piece on Melissa McEwan and her controversial blog, Shakesville ... Actual activism vs. keyboard activism ... The ridiculous art of online war ... Was the site a cult of personality? ... Aryeh's history as a commenter and a moderator ... Shakesville's infamous "Left Tit Incident" ... The decline and fall of the Shakesville empire ... Joanna responds to her critics ...
2019-09-0400 minBloggingheads.tv: Culturally DeterminedThe Marvel Virtues (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & David Ottlinger)David sings a hymn of praise to the Marvel Cinematic Universe ... Transformers, The Lion King, and Shakespeare ... The return of the Hollywood epic ... Aryeh: The shared universe is a key to the movies' success ... Have we reached the endpoint of spectacle? ... David: Avengers: Infinity War is about America coming to terms with losing ... Why you should watch (and read) Jessica Jones ... The possibility of virtue ...
2019-08-2800 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 minCulturally DeterminedWhen Brands Come Alive, with Nathan AllebachHow 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 ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-08-021h 18
The ThoughtStretchers PodcastThe Complexity Of Shortcomings In EducationDrew Perkins talks with Glenn Loury, economist, academic, author, and professor at Brown University, to get his thinking on education topics like school choice and competition and social justice issues like racial equality. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: glennloury.com @GlennLoury bloggingheads.tv - The Glenn Show Heather Mac Donald
2019-07-1450 min
The Sacred Speaks37: The Mind-Body Problems. A Conversation with John Horgan.The title of the John Horgan’s book, The Mind-Body Problems, with the addition of the “s”articulates the core of the mind-body problem – that it is plural. John Horgan is not content with one story that solves for the myriad problems we humans encounter when we explore reality and hunt to discover who we are and what matters most. John has been a scientific journalist for over 35 years and as someone who is paid to be curious he has commented on, written about, queried, and learned about some of the most ubiquitous and obscure scientific theories and discoveries science and huma...
2019-02-271h 44
Global OptimumShould You Go to Graduate School?This episode features: -What to consider when choosing a graduate program -Why I was told to avoid getting A’s in my classes, and why it might be a good idea for you as well -What are your chances of graduating from grad school -What are your chances of getting an academic position after grad school -How to avoid being corrupted by the academic incentive structure -How is grad school different from undergrad? -Tips for succeeding in grad school -How to avoid being bi...
2019-02-0542 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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2019-01-2448 minCulturally DeterminedMy Affair with the Intellectual Dark Web (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Meghan Daum)Meghan's essay on the Intellectual Dark Web, "Nuance: A Love Story" ... How Bloggingheads led Meghan to the IDW ... The Rubin Report, the IDW's salon room ... Why Meghan described IDWers as her "new friends" ... Adam Carolla, Howard Stern, and the spirit of transgression ... Why Jordan Peterson arouses such passions ... Is the IDW just a way to avoid confronting Trump? ... Has the word "fuck" lost its bite? ...
2018-12-271h 24
The Disruptors58. Glenn Loury on The Intellectual Dark Web, Affirmative Action and Social PolicyGlenn Loury (@glennloury) is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality and hosts The Glenn Show on Bloggingheads.tvGlenn has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Vice President of the American Economics Association, and President of the Eastern Economics Association. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fel...
2018-11-3058 min
The Fifth Column121 “On Anti-Racism w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams”Kmele facilitates a wide-ranging conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism. With: Glenn Loury - Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University - Host, The Glenn Show @ bloggingheads.tv Thomas Chatterton Williams- Author, "Losing My Cool"- Contributing writer @ New York Times Magazine. - National Fellow at New America, where he’s completing a new book project about ‘being the black father of white-looking children in Paris’. John McWhorter - Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Music at Columbia- Host, Slate’s "Lexicon Valley" Podcast- Writes for the AtlanticColeman Hughes- Undergraduate Philosophy major at Columbia University, and a column...
2018-11-221h 30Global OptimumModularity of Mind & Improve Your Public SpeakingThis episode features: -Why people can’t justify their moral decisions -How is it that some blind people can use visual information -What is the basic structure of the brain -Why it is we can both want something and not want it -Why people can be unaware of their decision-making process -Basic principles of public speaking -Particular fixes to improve your public speaking -Ways to practice public speaking Full transcript -References- Apply Psychology:
2018-09-0445 min
Jedi CounselJedi Counsel Podcast 99 – Podcasting, Mental Health, & Humor with Aryeh Cohen-WadeWe spoke to Aryeh Cohen-Wade, who is the executive editor of bloggingheads.tv and meaningoflife.tv, the host of the podcast Culturally Determined, an excellent writer, and a funny tweeter. First, he provided us with some background on bloggingheads.tv and walked us through his podcasting process. Culturally Determined includes discussions of a broad range of controversial and interesting topics (e.g., cultural appropriation, the Rick & Morty … Continue reading Jedi Counsel Podcast 99 – Podcasting, Mental Health, & Humor with Aryeh Cohen-Wade
2018-07-2000 min
The One with Greg GutfeldThought Bouncing with Robert WrightGreg’s guest today is journalist, co-founder and Editor in Chief of Bloggingheads.tv and author, Robert Wright. They discuss his most recent book, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment,” evolutionary psychology and tribalism in American politics.
2018-01-3129 min
Tablet StudiosHere’s Looking at You, Kinder: Ep. 73This week on Unorthodox: We’ll always have Casablanca (except Mark).Our Jewish guest is writer and comedian Lynn Harris, founder of Comedy GOLD, which teaches girls and women how to empower themselves through comedy. Our Gentile of the Week is author and Bloggingheads founder Robert Wright, who was raised Southern Baptist but now practices Buddhism. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes and more. Email us with comments, questions and kvetches atUnorthodox@tabletmag.com (we may share your note on air!).Sponsors:HelloFresh: For $35 off your first we...
2017-01-1258 min
Theology, Philosophy, and Religion from the BarrelRobert Wright on The Evolution of God #BarrelAgedThis barrel aged episode is one of my favorites from 2009. Not only am I a Robert Wright fan but his book we discuss, The Evolution of God, is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy this throw back episode and my thicker southern accent.
Robert Wright is Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He is the author, most recently, of The Evolution of God,which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psych...
2015-09-051h 07
Complete Liberty PodcastEpisode 155 - Liberty getaway cruise 2011, nonviolent communication principleshttp://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/objectivism.htmland its five branches:http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/metaphysics.htmlhttp://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/epistemology.htmlhttp://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/morality.htmlhttp://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/politics.htmlhttp://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/esthetics.htmlPassing moral judgment (on oneself and others) tends to diminish the ability of getting one's needs met, because it represents an unexpressed (or poorly expressed) needWere there any "noble savages"? Definitely no noble StatesScience Saturday: War of the Doves (Robert Wright & John Horgan)http://bloggingheads...
2011-12-311h 52
Free Forum with Terrence McNallyQ&A: ROBERT WRIGHT, Author and BloggerRecorded 06/05/09Christianity, Judaism and Islam are both peaceful and violent. Robert Wright discusses what circumstances bring out the best and worst in religion.Is religion a force for good or ill?This question has been more energetically debated over the last few years, globally, due to the West's confrontation with radical Islam, and in the U.S., to the political emergence and activism of evangelical Christians. This was brought to a head with the misadventures of George W. Bush, from Teri Schiavo to Bagdhad.Robert Wright takes on big questions, and he's...
2009-07-1856 minComplete Liberty PodcastEpisode 61 - Bad meme infections, contradictory moral and political codes, liberty and responsibility, anti-votingThe state of statist intellectuals; victims of bad, contradictory memes For example - UN Plaza: The Soft Underbelly http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/18763 An interesting blogger discussion - Science Saturday: Just a Theory; Ancient violence and the fear of being eaten http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/18623?in=42:39&out=60:37 It's important to address politics from first principles--and to define one's terms If intellectuals thought logically and didn't take collectivistic memes for granted, they'd improve society immensely Individuals (or groups of them) logically don't have the choice to nullify others' choices What is the origin of human conflict? Not respecting others and their...
2009-04-0758 min
John Horgan: “The Undiscovered Mind”John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American, Discover, and the New York Times, talks about neuroscience, genetics, the placebo effect psychedelic drugs, and more.
John is the author of The Undiscovered Mind: How The Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation, Rational Mysticism, and The End of Science. He also hosts a video blog at http://www.bloggingheads.tv [Read more...]
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2007-07-0556 min