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Trump’s Anti-antisemitism Crusade (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)
April 18, 2025
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Untangling Trump’s Tariff Logic (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)
April 15, 2025
How Trump could strike a deal with Iran (Connor Echols & Sina Toossi)
April 11, 2025
The Psycho-logic of Trump’s Tariffs (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
April 9, 2025
The Real (And Fictional) Orson Welles (Robert Wright & Milton Lawson)
April 8, 2025
The Psychopolitics of the Noosphere (audio replay) (Robert Wright, Nikita Petrov, and Boris Shoshitaishvili)
April 7, 2025
How Trump's tariffs could reshape the world (Connor Echols & Karthik Sankaran)
April 4, 2025
Reid Hoffman's p(bloom) (Robert Wright & Reid Hoffman)
April 3, 2025
Authoritarianism in the US and Abroad (Robert Wright & Almut Rochowanski)
April 2, 2025
The MAGA Foreign Policy Battle (Connor Echols & Kelley Vlahos)
March 28, 2025
Tesla, Tufts, and More Trump Chaos (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
The CIA and the JFK Assassination (Robert Wright & Jefferson Morley)
March 27, 2025
War in Yemen, Peace in Europe? (Connor Echols & Justin Logan)
March 21, 2025
The Case for Religious Belief (Robert Wright & Ross Douthat)
March 20, 2025
The Long Lineage of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Jeet Heer)
March 19, 2025
Another DeepSeek Moment? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)
March 14, 2025
Canada, Tesla, and Other Trump-Musk Troubles (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
March 13, 2025
50 Days of Trump 2.0 (Robert Wright & Eric Levitz)
March 11, 2025
Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
March 7, 2025
Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks)
March 5, 2025
Trump vs. Zelensky: The Morning After (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)
March 4, 2025
How to Slash the Pentagon Budget (Connor Echols & Julia Gledhill)
March 1, 2025
Hockey, Trump, and Other US-Canada Issues (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Feb. 27, 2025
Trump 2.0 and the Law (Robert Wright & Jack Goldsmith)
Feb. 25, 2025
Trump: Peacemaker or Chaos Agent? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)
Feb. 21, 2025
Interpreting AI’s Acceleration (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose)
Feb. 19, 2025
The Perils of a New Cold War (Connor Echols & Van Jackson)
Feb. 14, 2025
Discussing the Death of Democracy and the New Political Reality (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)
Feb. 13, 2025
Canada vs Trump, OpenAI vs Google (and Musk) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Why Wokeness Failed (Robert Wright & Musa al-Gharbi)
Feb. 11, 2025
Trump's Shock-and-Awe: Madness or Method? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)
Feb. 8, 2025
The Truth About DeepSeek (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)
Feb. 6, 2025
Trump vs International Law (Robert Wright & Mark Leon Goldberg)
Feb. 3, 2025
The China AI Panic (Robert Wright, Connor Echols, and Elizabeth Beavers)
Jan. 31, 2025
The AI Tsunami Approaches (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Jan. 30, 2025
Bonus Episode: The Meaning of the DeepSeek Shock (Robert Wright & Connor Echols)
Jan. 28, 2025
An American Jew Reflects on Gaza (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)
American Problems, Global Solutions (Connor Echols & Natasha Hakimi Zapata)
Jan. 25, 2025
Human Agency vs "Agentic” AI (Robert Wright & Kanjun Qiu)
Jan. 23, 2025
Trump 2.0 and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)
Jan. 22, 2025
Trump’s Gaza Win, Biden’s Legacy Woes (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Robert Wright)
Jan. 18, 2025
Worthwhile Canadian Humiliation (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Jan. 17, 2025
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