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Is Trump breaking with Israel? (Connor Echols & Jon Hoffman)
May 10, 2025
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The case for alarm about artificial intelligence (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)
May 8, 2025
The Biden-Trump Path to Global Ruin (Robert Wright & Matthew Duss)
May 6, 2025
Trump Doubles Down on the Law of the Jungle (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)
May 3, 2025
Can Trump Make Peace in Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
April 30, 2025
Pope Francis, Peacemaker or Appeaser? (Connor Echols & Michael Brendan Dougherty)
April 26, 2025
Trump and Musk retreat as Canadian election approaches (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
April 25, 2025
Trump, Modi, and the Authoritarian Playbook (Robert Wright & Pratap Bhanu Mehta)
April 23, 2025
KOSMOPOLITIKA#2: Where Do We Belong? (Nikita Petrov & Boris Shoshitaishvili)
April 21, 2025
Trump’s Anti-antisemitism Crusade (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)
April 18, 2025
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
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