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2024-12-20 |
How to End the Ukraine Wa (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Anatol Lieven) ... |
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2024-12-19 | Conn and the ancestry of this podcast ... Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy ... Modern matrimony by the numbers ... Are monogamous societies more egalitarian? ... Why the West went monogamous ... |
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2024-12-17 |
Three Decades of Bad Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Scott Horton) Scott’s anti-war libertarianism and his new book, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine ... How the US made the Russia-Ukraine war more likely ... Was Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution a US-backed co... |
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2024-12-14 |
Are Neocons Taking over Trump 2.0? (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and James Carden) ... |
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2024-12-12 | Syria’s uncertain political future ... Has the Islamist rebel group HTS actually moderated? ... The extent of retributive violence since Assad fell ... Syria's complicated factional divides ... America's control of Syrian oil fields ... Headin... |
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2024-12-10 |
Covid: The Evidence Against Natural Origin (Robert Wright & Yuri Deigin) Yuri’s high-stakes debate on Covid’s origins ... Pros and cons of Covid vaccines ... Do Covid “coincidences” point to a lab leak? ... Does the pattern of Covid’s initial spread suggest zoonotic origin? ... Why the Wuhan market may have amplified ... |
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2024-12-07 |
Is the Assad Regime Collapsing (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Bassam Barabandi) ... |
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2024-12-05 |
Debating the Hunter Biden Pardon (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) A masterclass in audience alienation ... Paul defends Biden’s paternal pardon ... Should family come before societal good? ... The costs of the Hunter pardon ... Was Hunter the victim of a witch hunt? ... Elon sues OpenAI (again) ... Heading to ... |
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2024-11-27 | Anthropic’s CEO comes out as a China hawk ... Why so many China hawks in the AI community? ... Gaming out the AGI takeoff timeline ... Last year’s OpenAI coup: What did Ilya see? ... Underappreciated dangers of the China chip war ... Are US tech l... |
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2024-11-23 |
Bibi's Legal Troubles, Trump's Confirmation Struggles (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols) ... |
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