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Why Bob loves Daniel’s Substack Eunomia and Kelley’s work at Responsible Statecraft ... Daniel and Kelley on how their conservative roots led them to anti-Blobism ... Daniel makes a conservative case for supporting international law ... Trump 2.0? Daniel and Kelley discuss Biden’s foreign policy failures ... Bob wonders why Biden didn’t try harder to revive the Iran nuclear deal ... The US is starving Afghans in the name of humanity ... Credit where due: Biden got us out of Afghanistan ... How the military-industrial complex helped create the Russia-Ukraine crisis ... Assessing China’s internal abuses and external ambitions – and how to respond ...

Max's new newsletter, Read Max ... The significance of Buzzfeed's underwhelming IPO ... Where are the cool kids online? ... Private equity squeezes a bit more blood from online media ... What is web3? And is it bullshit? ... Why Melania Trump is embracing NFTs but Elon Musk isn't ... Max's typology of '90s Dad Thrillers ...

Matt, a simple country boy, sojourns to the big city ... Will Republicans "fall in line" for Ted Cruz in 2024? ... Ron DeSantis's shaky 2024 positioning ... Do Christie, Rubio, or Pence have a shot? ... Bill: There was no reason to assume Manchin was ever going to vote for BBB ... Why haven't recent presidents pursued more politically advantageous bipartisan strategies? ... Matt recites his poem "'Twas the Night before Trump's Mess" ...

The latest attempt to get Amy fired from Penn Law ... Should we be worried even about elite non-Western immigration? ... Amy: “There’s nothing wrong with stereotyping” when it’s done correctly ... Glenn: America need immigrants if we’re going to compete ... Why aren’t we looking harder for technical talent in America? ... The problem with “equal representation” ... Glenn: Wokeness is a political problem that must be fought politically ... The collective action problem of “commonsense” race politics ... Is Charles Murray right to worry about white identity politics? ... Glenn: “We need to abandon the identitarian matrix altogether” ... Was European colonialism especially bad or an expression of broader human tendencies? ...

Have you heard the Good News? ... The role of Christ’s suffering in the Catholic tradition ... Walking the path(s) to salvation ... Peace on Earth, the virgin birth, and other Christmas miracles ... Father Bill: “To answer the question ‘Who is my neighbor’ is to answer the question ‘How big is my heart?’” ... Deriving the Trinity from the Gospel of John ... Father Bill: The meaning of Christmas is “self-emptying love” … ... … but what exactly is “self-emptying love”? ... The appeal of Teilhard de Chardin ... Christmas’s greatest hits ... How Bloggingheads.tv changed Father Bill’s life ...

David's podcast, Election Profit Makers ... Riding the waves of political prediction markets ... David: I don't think there's a limit to the depravity of the GOP ... Weighing the odds of American politics ever becoming normal again ... Can J.D. Vance out-crazy Josh Mandel in Ohio? ... Elon Musk, Time's Person of the Year and EPM's Bad Boy of the Week ... Esoteric rabbit holes into which the podcast digs deep ...

Will 2024 be a Trump-Hillary rematch? ... The Omicron wave: how bad will it be? ... David Frum’s proposal to triage covid care ... Some non-Hillary prez candidates who are almost as unappealing as Hillary ... Covid lab leak theory update ... Mickey lays out a plan to resuscitate the Build Back Better bill ... Fox News audience capture and Chris Wallace’s release ... Are the Fox News Jan 6 texts scandalous? Or even interesting? ... Barton Gellman gets Mickey to take 2024 GOP election theft semi-seriously ... Parrot Room preview: Ron Brownstein on Democrats losing the culture wars, Harvard abandons the SATS, Scotus on Roe v. Wade, more trash talk about Sam Harris and the Weinsteins, Mickey’s new case against child tax credits and Bob’s new car, and comments from Parrot Heads. ...

This regular TGS guest was recently a clue on Jeopardy ... Is race-conscious math education as radical as it sounds? ... Why diversity, when done right, can be an asset ... John on The View, Glenn on Bill Maher ... The strange case of Jussie Smollett ... Does the American “white-Black” binary make sense anymore? ... If America is irredeemably racist, why do so many non-white people immigrate here? ... What’s the matter with “culture”? ...

Are ponytails conservative or is Matt a crypto-progressive? ... Matt: Trump’s ability to influence elections seems to be waning ... Does Liz Cheney offer a path to a Trump-less Republican Party ... Will the Mark Meadows texts change Republicans’ minds about Trump? ... Bill: Manchin needs to say what he wants from BBB ...

John and Nikita (and Bob) present their psychedelic pedigrees ... Distinguishing between “unitive” and “non-unitive” psychedelic/mystical experiences ... John’s encounter with “[mischievous] animated shards of colored glass” on ayahuasca ... Nikita on DMT ep. I: Presence in everything—essence in nothing ... Can psychedelics get us closer to objective “Truth”? ... Nikita on DMT ep. II: After dis-enlightenment, chop wood ... A world charged with meaning ... John on the necessary contingency of our attempts to understand reality ... Nikita on DMT ep. III: Swapping self for gnosis—deal or no deal? ... “Everything is right here, happening. Pay attention to how it works.” ... Nikita on DMT ep. IV: oscillations between the sensuous and the cerebral ... DMT in a nutshell ...