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Smart people talking about politics, policy, culture and other stuff
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.
Heather Hurlburt and Daniel Drezner offer unorthodox takes from inside security orthodoxy.
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Entering the Biden Era (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Bill's hot new hairstyle ... Biden's blessedly platitudinous inauguration address ... How flexible will Biden be on border security? ... Bipartisan signaling from the Republicans ... Matt: If Trump wants to start a new party, bring it on ... Fox News' attempt to maintain its political influence ... Trump's decision to ignore judges and focus on par…
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Feminist Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Marissa Conway)
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Defining feminist foreign policy ... A feminist take on economic sanctions ... How to deal with undemocratic institutions like the UN Security Council ... Do we need reparations on a global scale? ... Keeping human rights discourse safe from the hawks ... Marissa: Brexit is rooted in colonial nostalgia ...…
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The Never-Ending End of the Trump Presidency (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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How late is too late to abandon Trump? ... Reconstructing the runup to Trump’s impeachable anti-Pence tweet ... Why an impeachment trial could be a mistake ... How do you actually get rid of Trump once he leaves office? ... Steve Bannon’s insidious adaptation to his YouTube deplatforming ... The future of Josh Hawley ... Mickey horrified by vaccine…
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 3 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
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The three books that pushed Glenn away from the right ... A crisis of identity: who is Glenn Loury and what is his project? ... Glenn's left-leaning moderatism and work in the 90s ... The link between Glenn's economic work and his social theory ... The evolution of Glenn's perspective on Obama ... The Iraq War, the 2008 crash, and how "the elites f…
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Will Impeachment Cure the GOP, or Kill It? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Matt and Bill discuss the political reverberations of impeachment, the long-term health of the Republican Party, and whether we need a new domestic terrorism law.By bloggingheads.tv
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Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ
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Will Impeachment Cure the GOP, or Kill It? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Matt and Bill discuss the political reverberations of impeachment, the long-term health of the Republican Party, and whether we need a new domestic terrorism law.By bloggingheads.tv
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Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined
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Arranged Marriages for Millennials (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Justin Murphy)
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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 ...By bloggingheads.tv
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Arranged Marriages for Millennials (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Justin Murphy)
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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 ...By bloggingheads.tv
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Recovering from the Capitol Hill Riot (Robert Wright & Conor Friedersdorf)
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Will impeachment and deplatforming backfire as weapons against Trump? ... Meta-deplatforming: the big-tech attack on Parler ... Bob: Twitter’s explanation for deplatforming Trump is pathetic ... Big tech’s overwhelming ability to regulate speech online ... Whataboutism and the Capitol Hill rioters ... Two competing justifications for impeachment ..…
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Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined
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We're Storming the Capitol, It's a Revolution! (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William R. Black)
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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? …
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We're Storming the Capitol, It's a Revolution! (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William R. Black)
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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? …
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Trump's Last Act? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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How culpable is Trump for the violent protests at the Capitol? ... Trump’s brazen incitement of rioters against Pence ... The mystery of the missing Capitol Hill cops ... Biden’s centrist new cabinet picks ... America’s political polarization continues apace ... The growing influence and uncertain fate of Steve Bannon ... Fumbling toward mass vacci…
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Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ
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The Insurrection and the Republican Party (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Matt and Bill discuss how the insurrection is dividing the Republican Party and impacting 2024. Plus, how Trump lost Georgia, and what a 50-50 Senate means for Biden.By bloggingheads.tv
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The Insurrection and the Republican Party (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Matt and Bill discuss how the insurrection is dividing the Republican Party and impacting 2024. Plus, how Trump lost Georgia, and what a 50-50 Senate means for Biden.By bloggingheads.tv
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The Brave New World of Genetic Engineering (Robert Wright & Jamie Metzl)
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Jamie’s book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity ... Why Jamie thinks young adults should freeze their sperm or eggs now ... The state of genetic engineering today ... The specter of eugenics ... Will gene-splicing create a new kind of inequality? ... How to avoid a eugenics arms race among nations ... Jamie predicts wha…
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 2 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
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Glenn's rightward shift in the early 80s ... A feeling of alienation from the Black elite ... Glenn and Daniel discuss neoliberalism and the "American empire" ... Glenn's emergence as a public intellectual ... How Glenn earned a unique place in public discourse ... Glenn's hiatus from and return to economic theory ... How Glenn helped coin the term…
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Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined
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Materially Determined (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Tommy Craggs)
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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…
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Materially Determined (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Tommy Craggs)
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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…
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Bob and Mickey’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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The swankier side of Bob ... Could Pence derail Biden on January 6? ... Bob and Mickey try to capture 2020 in one sentence. Then try again. And again. ... Forecasting the pandemic’s end ... Should auld grievance be forgot ... Can Biden avert a new cold war? ... What Bob and Mickey got right and wrong about 2020 ... Mickey’s best and worst of 2020 .…
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Can Journalism Survive? (Robert Wright & Eric Alterman)
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Looking back at Eric’s 25-year reign as The Nation’s media columnist ... The virtues and vices of democratized media ... Bob: Why does mainstream media do the bidding of the Blob? ... Eric accuses Bob of shirking his gatekeeping responsibilities ... Eric’s free speech case against BDS ... Bob’s problem with #Resistance journalism ... The strange ca…
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Who's Afraid to Debate Glenn Loury? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Why won't Jones, Kendi, and others come on the Glenn Show? ... The need for more discussions between black intellectuals who disagree ... The dilemma faced by contrarian black intellectuals ... John and Glenn ponder their niche ... What can't be said about race ... Will we see a more honest discourse on race after Trump? ... John explores the curre…
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Bloggingheads.tv: Culturally Determined
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The End of Takes (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Meghan Daum)
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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? ...…
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The End of Takes (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Meghan Daum)
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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? ...…
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Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ
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Trump's Pandemic Relief Endgame (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Matt and Bill discuss whether we can still expect to get relief checks and close out 2020 by assessing what they got right and wrong.By bloggingheads.tv
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Trump's Pandemic Relief Endgame (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Matt and Bill discuss whether we can still expect to get relief checks and close out 2020 by assessing what they got right and wrong.By bloggingheads.tv
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What Black and White Narratives Get Wrong about Syria (Robert Wright & Aaron Maté)
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Aaron: The new BBC podcast on the White Helmets is journalistic malpractice ... Aaron critiques the standard Western narrative on Syria ... Was the Syria intervention just a proxy war against Iran? ... How Aaron changed his views on Syria (featuring Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters) ... The controversy over the 2018 chemical attack in Douma ... How epithe…
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Biden Our Time (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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Bob receives the Maroon 5 endorsement ... The New York Times piece on the Toobin Affair ... The endless attempt to overturn the election ... Could we double the rate of covid vaccination? ... Does Joe Biden have an ideology? ... Bob fails in his bid to troll the Blob ... Mickey’s embarrassing tweet takes off ... Twitter’s anti-egalitarian bent ...…
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 1 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
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A working-class undergrad with a job, a wife, and two kids ... Why Glenn was drawn to economics ... How studying economics shaped Glenn's politics ... Anti-Semitism at Harvard and the origins of MIT economics ... Why Glenn believes in meritocracy ... Glenn discusses his influential early work ...By bloggingheads.tv
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Speech and Censorship on YouTube (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Douglas Lain)
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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 …
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Speech and Censorship on YouTube (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Douglas Lain)
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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 …
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A New Bipartisan Era (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Bill and Matt ask whether Mitch McConnell’s acceptance of Joe Biden’s victory will reverberate, whether the emerging Covid relief bill will spark a new era of bipartisanship, and whether Pete Buttigieg’s new gig puts him on a path to the presidency.By bloggingheads.tv
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A New Bipartisan Era (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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Bill and Matt ask whether Mitch McConnell’s acceptance of Joe Biden’s victory will reverberate, whether the emerging Covid relief bill will spark a new era of bipartisanship, and whether Pete Buttigieg’s new gig puts him on a path to the presidency.By bloggingheads.tv
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Are We Headed for Another Civil War? (Robert Wright & Richard Hanania)
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How political scientists think about civil war ... Richard: claims that we’re on the brink of civil war have a “pro-wrestling quality” ... Two theories of civil war: grievance vs. opportunity ... Should we worry about escalating civil conflict that falls short of civil war? ... Information ecosystems and civil conflict ... Richard’s critique of the…
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America after Trump (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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A grand unified theory of Biden’s cabinet: cognitive decline ... Judging the Texas lawsuit on its merits ... Is Trump’s post-election campaign poisoning America? ... The state of Congress after Trump ... Bob and Mickey reach consensus: Hunter Biden seems pretty shady ... Who gets the vaccine first and which one will they get? ... Some problematic B…
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The Warm Cloak of Victimhood (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Coleman Hughes named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" ... The predictable platitudes of John's critics ... The waning of wokeness ... Should Thomas Jefferson have known better? ... What is driving today's race crusaders? ... The denial of Black agency ... Nikole Hannah-Jones and the “1619 Riots” ...By bloggingheads.tv
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Will the Election Lawsuits Destroy Trust in Democracy? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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What makes a Hanukkah song? Has the Right become crazier than the Left? And has Biden lost control of the Cabinet selection process?By bloggingheads.tv
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Will the Election Lawsuits Destroy Trust in Democracy? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
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What makes a Hanukkah song? Has the Right become crazier than the Left? And has Biden lost control of the Cabinet selection process?By bloggingheads.tv
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The Particulars of Peter (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kelly Conaboy)
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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? .…
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The Particulars of Peter (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kelly Conaboy)
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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? .…
