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Glenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues.
Smart people talking about politics, policy, culture and other stuff
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with guests about culture in all its forms—pop, high, and low—and American society in general.
Liberal Bill Scher and conservative Matt Lewis meet in the rancor-free DMZ to hash out the week's political events.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with guests about culture in all its forms—pop, high, and low—and American society in general.
Problematic faves, dissident feminism, and poodles.
Heather Hurlburt and Daniel Drezner offer unorthodox takes from inside security orthodoxy.
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The Wright Show
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Covid Strikes Back (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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Mickey protests the sexualization of Bloggingheads ... The tribal response to Simone Biles' troubles ... Mickey: The left puts too much blame on unvaccinated Trumpers ... Bob campaigns for vaccine czar ... How should Biden talk about the Delta variant? ... Who can beat Trump in 2024? ... JD Vance really wants you to have kids ... Bob wants to get r…
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Covid Strikes Back (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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Mickey protests the sexualization of Bloggingheads ... The tribal response to Simone Biles' troubles ... Mickey: The left puts too much blame on unvaccinated Trumpers ... Bob campaigns for vaccine czar ... How should Biden talk about the Delta variant? ... Who can beat Trump in 2024? ... JD Vance really wants you to have kids ... Bob wants to get r…
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The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley)
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Comparing the legacies of Thomas Sowell and George Schuyler ... Making the case for Sowell’s significance ... The task of the popularizer ... Why Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions is important ... The norm of inter-group disparity ... What happened to Glenn’s generation of heterodox Black intellectuals? ... Why it’s hard to be conservative in aca…
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Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show
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The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley)
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Comparing the legacies of Thomas Sowell and George Schuyler ... Making the case for Sowell’s significance ... The task of the popularizer ... Why Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions is important ... The norm of inter-group disparity ... What happened to Glenn’s generation of heterodox Black intellectuals? ... Why it’s hard to be conservative in aca…
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Modi Wants to Make India Great Again (Connor Echols & Achin Vanaik)
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Contextualizing the rise of the authoritarian right in India ... Why are Prime Minister Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party so successful? ... What would it take for the BJP to lose power? ... Achin: Modi has accelerated India's shift toward the West ... Hindu nationalism at home and abroad ... How US-China tensions could fuel an India-Pakistan nuc…
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Lebanon’s Plight—and Syria’s (Robert Wright & Rania Khalek)
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Last year's Beirut port explosion ... The roots of Lebanon's economic crisis ... Sectarianism and the dueling narratives of the Lebanese civil war ... Why did Hezbollah intervene in Syria? ... Rania: US policy in Syria helped lead to the rise of ISIS ... What if outside powers had stayed out of Syria? ... The effect of US sanctions on Syria ... How…
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The Wright Show
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Lebanon’s Plight—and Syria’s (Robert Wright & Rania Khalek)
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Last year's Beirut port explosion ... The roots of Lebanon's economic crisis ... Sectarianism and the dueling narratives of the Lebanese civil war ... Why did Hezbollah intervene in Syria? ... Rania: US policy in Syria helped lead to the rise of ISIS ... What if outside powers had stayed out of Syria? ... The effect of US sanctions on Syria ... How…
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Bloggingheads.tv
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Nine Nasty Words (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & John McWhorter)
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John's new book, Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever ... The original profane words: damn and hell ... The four-letter big ones ... How donkeys and buttocks got the same name ... The nasty word we still euphemize ... How profanity can become pronouns ...By bloggingheads.tv
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Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined
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Nine Nasty Words (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & John McWhorter)
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John's new book, Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever ... The original profane words: damn and hell ... The four-letter big ones ... How donkeys and buttocks got the same name ... The nasty word we still euphemize ... How profanity can become pronouns ...By bloggingheads.tv
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Culturally Determined
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Nine Nasty Words (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & John McWhorter)
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John's new book, Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever ... The original profane words: damn and hell ... The four-letter big ones ... How donkeys and buttocks got the same name ... The nasty word we still euphemize ... How profanity can become pronouns ...By Bloggingheads.tv
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The Necessity and Uncertainty of Vaccination (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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Bob and Mickey enter the Cone of Silence ... Mickey: The narrative about vaccination has collapsed ... Should Bob worry about Eric Weinstein’s latest weird tweet? ... Are we stuck with Covid forever? ... Mickey: If Americans start to see work as optional, migrants will replace them ... The Child Tax Credit’s surprisingly bad polling ... Appraising …
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The Wright Show
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The Necessity and Uncertainty of Vaccination (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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Bob and Mickey enter the Cone of Silence ... Mickey: The narrative about vaccination has collapsed ... Should Bob worry about Eric Weinstein’s latest weird tweet? ... Are we stuck with Covid forever? ... Mickey: If Americans start to see work as optional, migrants will replace them ... The Child Tax Credit’s surprisingly bad polling ... Appraising …
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Contesting Obama's Footprint (Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein)
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Why Richard is trying to stop the construction of the Obama Presidential Center ... Richard's stymied attempt to stop alterations to Chicago's Soldiers Field ... Raising questions about the OPC's environmental impact ... Richard's account of critical race theory ... A legal history of racial redress in the US ... Richard: Biden exhibits less comity…
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Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show
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Contesting Obama's Footprint (Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein)
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Why Richard is trying to stop the construction of the Obama Presidential Center ... Richard's stymied attempt to stop alterations to Chicago's Soldiers Field ... Raising questions about the OPC's environmental impact ... Richard's account of critical race theory ... A legal history of racial redress in the US ... Richard: Biden exhibits less comity…
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The Footsteps of Our Fathers (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
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Are we the repetition of our fathers? ... John's horror of nirvana ... Putin owns a float tank ... Putin as a collective hallucination ... Putin as Nietzsche's Superman ... Hemingway's version of masculinity ... Dictators' aesthetic taste, and the tragedy of never learning what you like ... A morality based on the premise that ideas are alive ... G…
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Debunking San Juan Hill (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ
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Debunking San Juan Hill (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Meet the NYT Pitchbot (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & DougJ)
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The origins of Doug's "New York Times Pitchbot" project ... The "In this Ohio diner..." trope ... The NYT's de facto national status and the hollowing out of local journalism ... The Opinion page's lack of ideological and geographic diversity ... Aryeh: The NYT's real tribe is the wealthy ... Cillizza and Greenwald, Doug's bêtes noires/muses ... Wi…
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Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined
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Meet the NYT Pitchbot (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & DougJ)
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The origins of Doug's "New York Times Pitchbot" project ... The "In this Ohio diner..." trope ... The NYT's de facto national status and the hollowing out of local journalism ... The Opinion page's lack of ideological and geographic diversity ... Aryeh: The NYT's real tribe is the wealthy ... Cillizza and Greenwald, Doug's bêtes noires/muses ... Wi…
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Culturally Determined
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Meet the NYT Pitchbot (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & DougJ)
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The origins of Doug's "New York Times Pitchbot" project ... The "In this Ohio diner..." trope ... The NYT's de facto national status and the hollowing out of local journalism ... The Opinion page's lack of ideological and geographic diversity ... Aryeh: The NYT's real tribe is the wealthy ... Cillizza and Greenwald, Doug's bêtes noires/muses ... Wi…
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A Debate about the ‘Rules-based Order’ (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)
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Are democracies better at following international rules than autocracies? ... Eli: The world is better off with America in charge ... Debating US policy toward Cuba ... Bob: What's the difference between America's authoritarian allies and its authoritarian enemies? ... Does China see liberal democracies as a threat? ... The virtue of epistemic humi…
