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A quick announcement ... "Structural racism is an empty category" ... The bias narrative vs. the development narrative ... Race as a social phenomenon ... Racism is not the cause of behavioral problems in black communities ... "White people cannot give black people equality" ... Q&A: How has economic thinking about racism and the market changed? ... Q&A: What strategies will help people engage in modes of development? ... Q&A: What are the prospects for improvements? ... Q&A: How has the language of racial discrimination changed? ... Q&A: Is intersectionality a factor in racial inequality? ... Q&A: Do Glenn's claims reinforce white prejudice against blacks? ...

How Tom and Bob wound up talking about the Blob ... Why Tom wants to retire the term "the Blob" ... Is the "Restrainers vs. the Blob" framing useful? ... Chomsky's misunderstood view on how money corrupts discourse ... Tom questions the value of understanding Vladimir Putin's perspective ... Does the Blob undermine America's national interest? ... Engaging a diverse, evolving Blob ...

Mickey: Sinema’s tax plan is screwing up the infrastructure bill ... Bob: It’s a political mistake to cut free community college ... Did Biden accidentally commit to defending Taiwan against attack? ... Why you shouldn’t worry about China’s new missile ... JD Vance’s weird tweet about Alec Baldwin ... Can Trump be convinced not to run in 2024? ... Bob: Steve Bannon is still an extremely dangerous person ... US Covid numbers remain inscrutable ... Parrot Room preview: What Dave Chappelle said about Mike Pence, Merrick Garland’s conflict of interest, how to bribe Trump into staying out of the race, death threats in politics, more car advice, Bob takes another crack at besting Mickey’s joke, meditation retreats, Bob defends “the pounce move,” Alec Baldwin, King Juan Carlos’s sex drive, and the French election ...

What are NYC exam schools? ... The recent attempt to change exam school admissions ... Wai Wah: Changes to exam schools will discriminate against Asian students ... Wai Wah's attempts to expand the Gifted and Talented Program ... Are exam schools "segregated"? ... Eric Adams's support for increasing the number of exam schools ... Wai Wah: Asians are being scapegoated ...

Matt's recent conversation with Ross Douthat ... Can Democrats get BBB done by the end of October? ... Are progressives onboard with the bipartisan infrastructure bill? ... Matt: The Virginia governor's race point the way for national Republicans ...

Steve’s new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters ... Are humans inherently logical? ... What is “motivated reasoning”? ... How attribution error distorts our public discourse ... How Steve deals with criticism of his work ... Bob’s defense of whataboutism ... Did evolution make us moral—or at least moralistic? ...

Dara's new book, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present ... Anne Frank, Jewish self-erasure, and the actual lessons of the Holocaust ... Unique features of Jewish literature and history ... The case for Jewish anger ... The myth of Jewish immigrants' names being changed at Ellis Island ... Debating Shylock ... The dark truth behind the comic relief of the "last Jew in Afghanistan" ... Dara: American society is fine with hating Hasidic Jews ... Dara's path to daily Talmud study ...

Trump finally crosses the line for Mickey (again) ... Why is Trump threatening to undermine Republicans in the midterms? ... Mickey: It’s smart politics to dump the child tax credit ... Are some of Dave Chappelle’s jokes antisemitic? ... Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s less-than-flattering appraisal of Colin Kaepernick ... Is Steve Bannon going to jail? ... Bob: “The jury is out” on the possibility of democracy in China ... Parrot Room preview: Supply chains, Michael Wolff’s account of Jeffrey Epstein’s theory of Trump, Walgreens closes stores over crime, Nick Kristof's possible gubernatorial run, more evidence of Ben Rhodes’s blobishness, David Shor, Terry McAuliffe’s chances in Virginia, a roadblock to Mickey’s coup theory, the new Velvet Underground doc, Steven Pinker and the left, a genitalia joke face-off, Facebook’s thought policing, and help for boomers ...

John's linguistic adventure in Brighton Beach ... The complex racial and economic dynamics of redlining ... The problem with John's NYT "megaphone" ... A progress report on Glenn's memoir ... The temptations of playing to the crowd ... What, if anything, does it mean to be "authentically black"? ... Taking "systemic racism" seriously ...

Matt: We've become overly sensitive to potentially offensive comedy ... Is Dave Chappelle making jokes or a serious political argument? ... Is Chappelle an "equal opportunity offender"? ... Bill: The Democrats' approach to reconciliation is incoherent ...