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March 31, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Robert B. Talisse
Sophia
Robert's new book, Overdoing Democracy
The revealing differences between Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts
The diminishing importance of place in American culture
How homogeneity distorts groups
Partisan identity has become the core of our social selves
Is this the inevitable product of late capitalism?
What happens after Trumpism runs its course?
Robert finds optimism in a Nashville bluegrass club
December 15, 2015 — Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama
The Wright Show
Revisiting Frank's "End of History" thesis
Trump, China, and the threat of illiberal democracy
Frank: The singularity is an "idiotic" idea
Should we fear homemade eugenics?
Why Americans need to improve their moral imaginations
Does religion unite more than it divides?
June 29, 2019 — Daniel Kaufman & Nathan Eckstrand
Sophia
Nathan's recent essay, "Is it Time for the Humanities to Strike?"
The attack on the humanities goes international
Are non-college graduates deficient voters?
Why the educated elite aren't the most ethical people
Could a strike re-engage the public with the humanities?
How to win over those who most thoroughly reject the humanities
June 27, 2017 — David Kyuman Kim & Eboo Patel
Love-Driven Politics
What led Eboo to interfaith work
The quandaries of religious pluralism
Reflecting on Muhammad Ali's refusal to serve in Vietnam
Loving a country that doesn't love you back
Why Eboo thinks social action needs to be about persuasion
January 24, 2017 — Daniel Kaufman & David Ottlinger
Sophia
John Stuart Mill on social shaming
Was the U.S. envisioned as a classical liberal polity?
Why the New Deal was not a break with liberalism
Is there such a thing as personal autonomy?
Why the social justice movement is illiberal
Future prospects of liberalism
May 22, 2017 — Robert Wright & Jay Van Bavel
The Wright Show
The partisanship that bolsters Trump
Jay's favorite experiments on the psychology of tribalism
Is the anti-Trump movement its own worst enemy?
What's going on in Trump's brain?
How a sports fan's brain warps reality
Is there hope for overcoming our tribal psychology?
Want a retweet? Stoke moral outrage.
July 14, 2018 — Robert Wright & Thomas Metzinger
The Wright Show
Try this at home: the rubber hand illusion
Out-of-body experiences in VR
Why you will never have a not-self experience
Meditation, capitalism, and political activism
The urgent need to teach meditation in schools
Thomas's "transparent self" model
October 15, 2018 — Colin Pugh & Alex Guerrero
Alex explains "lottocracy," a system using random selection to choose politicians
Does democracy have to mean voting?
Democratic systems as forms of technologies
Imagining many legislatures, each devoted to a single issue
Capture and accountability in elections
How would randomly selected politicians learn about policy?
Leveraging collective knowledge for political decisions
Alex: Elections encourage short-term focus and tribalism
July 25, 2019 — Daniel Kaufman & Oliver Burkeman
Sophia
Journalism, from information scarcity to attention scarcity
Is it harder to find "good" information these days?
Oliver: Reliance on social media creates false controversies
Has the mainstream media really drifted towards partisanship?
How to dismantle the partisan divide
Dan: Americans were more divided in 1968 than now
Social injustice: Perception, reality, and urgency
November 06, 2016 — Robert Wright & Arlie Hochschild
The Wright Show
Arlie's new book Strangers in Their Own Land
The red state paradox
The psychology of Tea Party discontent
Does identity politics breed identity politics?
Justifying Trump's bad behavior
Racial attitudes in rural white communities
The blue state paradox
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