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14 November 2025
Disorder as the New Normal (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... What is Bob doing in Qatar? ... "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Why Yeats felt this way ... Peter Thiel's Antichrist theory ... Nikita: COVID was a weird time, and nothing has been the same since ... Why Bob feels things are falling apart ... Were things ever in order? ... "Inner emigration": tuning out the world as self-care ... A reaction to a drone strike: "Loud noises...
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11 November 2025
Is American Might Right? (Robert Wright & Shadi Hamid)
Teaser ... Shadi’s path to his new book, The Case for American Power ... George W. Bush’s “Freedom Agenda” ... Does America’s role in Gaza undermine Shadi’s case? ... Shadi’s case for US moral supremacy ... What does China want? ... What justifies military intervention? ... Bob: International law is the answer ... Heading to Overtime ...
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07 November 2025
Zohran, Epstein, and Two Decades of Bob and Mickey (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
This week in underappreciated world history ... Were the elections all—or just mostly—bad news for Trump? ... Will Trump invade Venezuela? ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump ... What’s the shutdown fight really about? ... Mickey vs Ezra Klein (in absentia) on healthcare ... Back down the Epstein rabbit hole ... Was Tucker playing 4D chess with the Fuentes interview? ... What happened to...
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05 November 2025
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and the Gatekeeper Question (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
The Carlson-Fuentes interview controversy ... Paul: Candidate Carlson is coming ... Is gatekeeping dead? ... Is Carlson’s show respectable? ... Carlson and Fuentes on the Israel lobby ... William F. Buckley as MAGA precursor ... Is antisemitism more organic on the right or left? ... Heading to Overtime ...
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31 October 2025
Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire & Other Sketchy Deals (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Bob tries to lower American Prestige’s self-esteem ... The Trump-Xi trade talks ... Making sense of Trump’s nuclear saber-rattling ... Signs of a US-China vibe shift ... Is AI accelerating science? ... Bill Gates’s climate change of heart ... This week’s Gaza ceasefire death toll ... Overtime preview: Bob vs Danny on international law ...
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28 October 2025
The Trump Doctrine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... Trump on drug cartels: "We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be like, dead." ... Venezuela: Regime change disguised as drug war ... Marco Rubio holds all the foreign policy power ... Trump Doctrine candidate #1: "Jump at the chance to use force" ... Trump Doctrine candidate #2: Monroe 2.0 ... Roy Cohn's philosophy: "It is a nation of men, not laws" ... Bob: There's value in hypocrisy...
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23 October 2025
Mindfulness and the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Robert Wright & Vincent Fakhoury Horn)
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20 October 2025
The US-China Microchip-Minerals Showdown (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)
What triggered Trump’s 100-percent tariff threat? ... How China is mirroring the US playbook ... The real escalation: America's "50% rule" ... Why has US media coverage been so bad? ... Why has US media coverage been so bad? ... US China policy as cognitive empathy failure ... Heading to Overtime ...
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16 October 2025
Rationalism and AI Doomerism (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)
Teaser ... Why Liron became a Yudkowskian ... Eliezer Yudkowsky’s vision of AI apocalypse ... Does intelligence want power? ... Decoding Yudkowsky’s key Darwinian metaphor ... Is doomerism crowding out other AI worries? ... Liron: The silent majority is very AI anxious ... Heading to Overtime ...
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10 October 2025
Whose Toady is Bari Weiss? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Amazing Bob-Paul discount deal! ... The Bari Weiss trivia test ... Lasting peace in Gaza? ... Why did Trump finally get tough on Bibi? ... MAGA free speech debates ... Is the AI bubble about to burst? ... If anyone builds it, will everyone die? ... Heading into Overtime: Ian McEwan, George Harrison, OpenAI, One Battle After Another ...
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