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A birthday week recap ... Will BIB and BBB go bust? ... What are Manchin and Sinema up to? ... What happened to Glenn Greenwald? ...

Matt and Chris's podcast, Decoding the Gurus ... What makes a guru a guru? ... Are we living in an age of secular gurus? ... Chris: I have an issue with "unevenly applied" skepticism ... Scott Adams's selectively "pro-science" stance ... Eric and Bret Weinstein's grievance-based worldviews ... Is self-aggrandizement a Weinstein family trait? ... The sinister forces supposedly closing in on Eric Weinstein ... Does social media's emphasis on "followers" encourage the creation of gurus? ...

How #MeToo shaped Jacques's new book, The Philip Roth We Don't Know ... Jacques: Roth aimed to obliterate the critic ... Is it unethical to write a nasty fictionalization of an ex? ... Three levels of analysis of the misogynist charge ... Fiction and morality ... Roth's underexamined ideas about the existence of the self ... The fallout from the sexual assault allegations against Roth's biographer ...

Pelosi preps for infrastructure vote with trouble all around ... The cost of zero sum politics: the wrath of the voters ... Throwing Biden into the ash heap of history ... What do Manchin & Sinema really want? ... Is Mickey feeling schadenfreude over Biden’s Haitian immigrant debacle? ... Bob worries that Biden seems vibrant enough to run for re-election ... Is America heading toward a cold war with China? ... What Bob Woodward’s version of the Mark Milley story missed ... Mickey no longer sure Rocking the Casbah in Saudi was a good idea ... Mickey vs Bob on Ezra Klein’s supply-side progressivism column ... Quick covid update ... Hunter Biden in the Parrot Room ...

Subscribe to The Glenn Show on YouTube ... The origins of Bloggingheads ... Non-zero-sum thinking on the global stage ... Bob: We’re not focusing on the most pressing foreign policy dilemmas ... Bridging the globalist vs. nationalist divide ... Could more cognitive empathy ease racial tensions? ... Changes afoot for The Glenn Show and Bloggingheads ...

Are we headed for a shutdown? ... The annual Bill birthday digression ... What's Al Franken up to? ... Will progressives sink the bipartisan infrastructure bill? ...

Sophie's exploration of the use and misuse of "the Irish goodbye" ... The strange joy of watching a Picasso painting fall to the ground ... NFTs and the question of authentication ... What makes an object a valuable collectible? ... Sophie investigates the hidden melodies of subways ... The pathos of lost pet signs ...

Mickey proposes a parking garage-based theory of everything ... Bob’s plan for passing Biden’s "soft infrastructure" bill ... Mickey does some Monday morning quarterbacking for Larry Elder ... Bob’s near-death experience with British food ... Was Mickey truly “in it to win it” in his Senate race? ... Were Mark Milley's calls to China justified? ... The perverse incentives of the anti-China nuclear sub deal ... Mickey’s exhaustion-induced supermarket hallucination ... Would Biden’s budget really transform American life? ... Parrot Room preview: Facebook’s whitelist, the Dixie Chicks "cancellation," loneliness, a Las Vegas shooting rabbit hole, Bob's push to get Mickey on a dating app, the US Open, Elizabeth Holmes on trial, the mystery of Trump’s attraction to Putin, and that Nicki Minaj tweet (you know the one) ...

Daniel’s new podcast. American Prestige ... Did the US needlessly prolong the Cold War? ... Daniel: The Cold War actually limited political liberty within the US ... The cultural logic of American empire ... Global inequities and existential threats ... The spiritual challenges of climate change ... Glenn: Capitalism is “the natural order of things” ... What Covid reveals about the modern American university ...

Should AOC have worn that dress? ... Should celebrities make our healthcare decisions? ... The legacy of Norm MacDonald ...