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2024-09-06 |
Zelensky’s Gambits, Putin’s Game Plan (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven) Is Ukraine’s Kursk invasion failing? ... Why Russia may outlast the West in Ukraine ... Zelensky’s cabinet shakeup ... Prospects for a peace deal ... Russian elites’ views on the war ... How the Global South can help end the conflict ... Heading ... |
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2024-09-05 |
Trump Scaremongers War (But What’s The Truth?) (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher) Is Biden-Harris foreign policy neoconservative or Reagan conservative? ... How much are Trump and Biden alike on foreign policy? ... Matt warns up to Walz ... How should Harris approach next week's debate? ... |
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2024-08-31 | ... |
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2024-08-29 | What's wrong with Walz joining Harris for her first interview? ... Should Harris have gone local for her first interview? ... Why is Trump embracing RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard? ... |
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2024-08-27 |
Israel’s Self-Destructive Policies (Robert Wright & Stephen Walt) Steve’s books, The Hell of Good Intentions and The Israel Lobby ... How Israel helped spawn Hezbollah ... Why US leaders abet Israel’s self-destructive behavior ... Netanyahu’s longstanding opposition to a Palestinian state ... The Israeli policy ... |
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2024-08-23 | Bob and Paul’s time-warping podcast experiment ... Does thinking in bets better your thinking? ... Past prediction 1: Will the presidential race tighten up? ... J.D. Vance memes of yester-month ... Past prediction 2: Who will Kamala pick for VP? .... |
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2024-08-19 |
Gaza, Realism, and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Emma Ashford) Emma’s forthcoming book on US grand strategy ... Gaza, Ukraine, and Mearsheimer’s realism ... The DC establishment’s dark view of world affairs ... How the Gaza war hurts American interests—and America itself ... Is the time ripe for realism and re... |
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2024-08-17 | ... |
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2024-08-16 | Are too many former Democratic presidents speaking at the convention? ... Does Kamala Harris need to win the national popular vote by a lot to win the Electoral College? ... Does Tim Walz need a better response to attacks on his military service? ..... |
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2024-08-13 |
Understanding AI "Understanding" (Robert Wright & Nathan Labenz) Nathan's podcast, The Cognitive Revolution ... The enduring enigmas of AI ... Conceptualizing how LLMs conceptualize ... Do AIs actually understand things? ... Why AI doesn’t need to be superhuman to be revolutionary ... Human vs AI representation... |
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