BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

Teaser ... Steve’s book In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us ... Were school closures smart policy? ... The mask mandate question ... Did medical experts get too much say? ... The role of social class and political tribe ... How dissent was suppressed ... Bob takes a jab at Jay Bhattacharya ... Heading to OT: Why Steve wrote the book ...

The deal Hamas offered Bibi before October 7 ... How October 7 changed the landscape ... Why Clinton’s Camp David talks failed ... What Arafat was actually offered at Camp David ... The centrality of the right of return ... Beyond two states ... Heading into OT: Abandoning false optimism is not pessimism ...

How Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book envisions AI takeover ... Will we ever really know how AI works? ... The “paperclip maximizer" problem revisited ... Will advanced AIs be insatiable? ... David’s alternative takeover scenario: gradual disempowerment ... Can—and should—we keep humans in the loop? ... Heading into Overtime ...

Teaser ... Glenn’s latest book, Self-Censorship ... Why the Manhattan Institute dropped Glenn ... Glenn on Gaza: “I can’t bear it.” ... “Genocide” and other Israel speech code flashpoints ... Has Trump’s anti-antisemitism push chilled campus speech? ... The irony of the antisemitism crackdown ... A few kind and less kind words for Bari Weiss ... Are Israel’s defenders hurting their cause? ... Glenn’s next big project ...

Free speech after Charlie Kirk ... Tyler Robinson’s strange messages ... How influential was Kirk? ... Do violent video games encourage violence? ... What Gary Marcus gets right—and (very) wrong—about AI ... Overtime topics: Paul’s debate triumph, Redford’s legacy, etc. ... Heading into Overtime ...

How this conversation came to be ... What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing ... Who (or what) is driving our polarization? ... Cognitive empathy for MAGA ... Reacting to Charlie Kirk on affirmative action ... Are we re-running the 1960s? ... Coming up in part 2: Israel-Gaza ...

Has the pace of AI progress slowed? ... How the tech CEOs are learning to stop worrying ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Sam Altman ... OpenAI’s attempt to shed its non-profit status ... Dario Amodei ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... "Would Putin send a weird sexually suggestive birthday greeting to a famous affluent well-connected pedophile?" ... Decoding Trump's message in the greeting ... Conspiracy theories vs official silence ... Why is Ezra Klein content with "We'll never know"? ... Why no president wants to release the Epstein files ... Ghislaine names Clinton and Larry Summers ... Does Epstein kill faith in democracy? ... Trump vs. Putin: Authoritarian playbooks compared ... Will Trumpism outlive Trump? ... David Sacks embraces strongman tactics ... How war changes everything overnight ... Trump's Mexico invasion fantasy ... Heading to Overtime ...

The Bob-Paul secret sauce—spilled! ... Mickey Kaus's latest contribution to Epsteinology ... Paul fact-checks Mickey, gets fact-checked ... What’s better: AI or indoor plumbing? ... What Gary Marcus gets right—and (very) wrong—about AI ... Has TV made us smarter? ... The pros of the Google antitrust ruling ... Putin’s paleo-transhumanism ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Seth’s new NYT bestseller, The Fort Bragg Cartel ... What is Delta Force? ... The growth of Delta Force's covert ops and unaccountability ... American "death squads" ... Why cops and prosecutors cover up crimes by elite soldiers ... The mysterious murder of Billy Lavigne ... How invading Afghanistan fueled America's drug crisis ... Heading to Overtime ...