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Revisiting Glenn and John's first Bloggingheads conversation ... John's gig as a columnist ... The Black intellectual's challenge ... John: There is life outside the academy ... Disappearing factories and Black poverty ... Glenn calls for cross-racial working-class solidarity ... Is unequal school funding a red herring? ...

Joshua's new novel, The Netanyahus ... How Harold Bloom inspired a novel about Bibi Netanyahu's father ... Other influences: Philip Roth, classic sitcoms, and Yiddish anecdotes ... Jewish assimilationism vs. Jewish identitarianism ... The semi-forgotten history of Revisionist Zionism ... Those shameless Netanyahu boys! ... Why Aryeh thought the novel was targeted at his personal demographic ...

Bob and Mickey’s vaccination vacation ... American cluelessness persists in Afghanistan ... Can the Taliban be incorporated into the global community? ... Radicalized by Microsoft ... Bret Weinstein’s ivermectin crusade (cont’d) ... Has Pelosi outmaneuvered House moderates? ... Are Millennials and Zoomers the new beatniks? ... Bob: We could benefit from a slower rate of technological change ... Parrot Room preview: ESPN literally cancels Rachel Nichols, the Weinstein Rosetta Stone, a traumatic Wieseltier anecdote, Bob’s appearance on Ezra Klein’s podcast, the lawyer-lab rat joke, Ted Lasso, and a controversial Parrot Room fan mash-up ...

Bill: Moderates got the better of the House budget resolution standoff ... Can the Democrats avoid a debt limit debacle? ... Matt: Biden failed to lead on Afghanistan ...

Laura's essay, "What the Hell Happened to the Claremont Institute?" ... Background on Harry Jaffa and the West Coast Straussians ... Why did many East Coast Straussians become NeverTrumpers? ... Michael Anton, the cosplaying conservative intellectual ... A recent "crazy rant" published by Claremont's house organ ... The tendentiousness of the 1776 Commission Report ... Trump's very strange idea for a "Garden of American Heroes" ...

Unmasked liberals in their natural environment ... The sharply rising Covid-related death rate in the US ... Should the US send vaccine doses abroad before giving boosters at home? ... Bob: The Afghanistan withdrawal could reduce the risk of domestic terrorism ... Is there political logic behind Biden’s position on Afghan refugees? ... Bob: We could have won the Cold War with much less military intervention ... Is “authoritarianism” the new “international communism”? ... Is there an anti-American terrorist threat lurking in Syria? ... The military’s institutional bias against bad news ... Will Biden reinstitute Trump’s “stay in Mexico” policy? ... Parrot Room preview: The Kamala problem, JD Vance, the case against Ghislaine, Twitter lets users flag misinformation, a new Larry Elder scandal, the Atlantic’s supposed prosperousness, Nanci Griffith, the backstory on Bob and Mickey’s teetotaling, the Weinsteins, Ted Lasso, and some inspiration for Mickey ...

The bias narrative vs. the development narrative ... What are the causes of “behavioral maladies” in black communities? ... Will more funding for social services reduce violent crime? ... Glenn: The clock is ticking for the least advantaged African Americans ... Debating black patriotism ... American exceptionalism and the dominance of capitalism ... The necessary checks on capitalism ... The call (from Bernie Sanders) is coming from inside the house ...

Has Afghanistan shown Biden to be incompetent and callous? ... Will Afghanistan impact Biden politically? ... Do the Moderate Nine hold better cards than Nancy Pelosi in the budget resolution showdown? ...

A prehistory of critical race theory ... What CRT isn't ... Why CRT gets so much pushback ... When (possibly) well-meaning jokes go wrong ... CRT and the language of the elite ... The shifting definitions of "racist" and "white supremacist" ... Are subtle changes in race-related vocabulary worth the trouble? ...

Rebecca's essay on how Hannah Arendt was misread during the Trump years ... A capsule biography of Arendt ... The real meaning of Arendt's famous line about "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule" ... Rebecca: Trump's lies were mostly "boardroom bullshit" ... Are Trump's post-election machinations approaching "big lie" territory? ... The banality of evil vs. grotesquerie of Trump ... "Post-truth" in the run-up to the Iraq War ... The banality of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld ... Rebecca cofounded The Drift as an antidote to the monolithic media narrative ...