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Is Israel a democracy? ... Bret: Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not illegal ... Has Israel ever offered the Palestinians a sovereign state? ... Bret: The core of the problem is Palestinian misgovernance ... Deterring Hamas ... Is international criticism of Israel inevitable? ... An exercise in perspective taking ... Whose side is time on? ...

Biden’s good-enough Russia summit performance ... Bob: Michael McFaul is obsessed with aiding-and-abetting accusations ... Jeffrey Toobin returns, to Mickey’s dismay ... Is it National Biden-Harris Child Tax Credit Day already? ... Is Stacey Abrams ingeniously engineering the end of the filibuster? ... Did the FBI have a hand in provoking the January 6 riots? ... Some peculiar implications of the Texas anti-CRT law ... Bob responds to Mickey’s anal probe challenge ... Norm entrepreneurs ... Parrot Room preview: a mystery guest joins the conversation, Hunter Biden’s memoir, a Jill Biden-Kamala Harris rivalry, a Tom Wilson biopic, the unjustly unverified, Loury and McWhorter, and the Blinken-Biden schism ...

John takes issue with antiracism in Princeton’s classics department ... Glenn: Black people should embrace and exceed institutional standards ... Meeting the challenge of academic performance ... Stepping outside yourself ... Glenn’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson Today ... Glenn and John remember their fathers ...

Christian on gothic, sentimental, and ironic strains in recent US history ... Biden the pre-Boomer sentimentalist ... Trump as a postmodern gothic figure ... Why the gothic and the sentimental are two sides of the same coin ... Aryeh: It turns out that irony is never actually dead ... Who is the Great American Boomer novelist? ... Christian's review of Hunter Biden's memoir ...

Nikita’s disclaimer: I don’t speak for the average Russian ... One result of Western sanctions: no good cheese in Russian stores ... The crackdown on the supporters of Alexey Navalny ... What Putin learned from the protests in Belarus ... The Internet vs TV ... Do Russians see America as an enemy? ... Siloviki, the Russian ruling class ... Nikita tries to describe his ineffable Substack newsletter, Psychopolitica ...

Rabbi Ari introduces himself ... How do Millennial American Jews understand their Judaism? ... The unique Jewish community in Skokie, Illinois ... Identity, tribalism, and communal thickness ... The failures of Hebrew School education ... Rising anti-Semitism on both right and left in America ... Why Millennials must develop a mature relationship with Judaism and Zionism ... Rabbi Ari: "Judaism is ultimately not about you" ...

Why we should hope there are extraterrestrials ... Bezos in space ... Bob manages to hold back on Jeffrey Toobin jokes ... Mickey: Kamala's staff is incompetent ... Is Biden really getting the US out of Afghanistan? ... Bob defends Ilhan Omar's war crimes comments ... Mickey: It's harder to pass a reconciliation bill in the House than in the Senate ... Bob frets about a mirth shortage on the left ... Parrot room preview: the Vanity Fair piece on Jeffrey Epstein, Hunter Biden, Bob's problem with Slates’s Slow Burn, Bob’s problem with David Sanger, hydroxychloroquine, trucks flying flags, and sexy cicadas ...

Teodros's new book, Conversations with Cornel West ... Cornel offers spiritual counsel to Glenn ... Between commercialization and democratic decay ... Glenn: “The glass is way more than half-full” for Black Americans ... The centrality of Black music to Black experience ... Cornel’s Chekhovian Christianity ... What system, if any, can replace American capitalism? ... The meaning of 1776 ...

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