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Matt's podcast on the conservative movement, Know Your Enemy ... Matt's journey from movement conservative to democratic socialist ... Trump and the conservative intellectuals who tried to defend him ... Can there be a Trumpism without Trump? ... A cheer or two for the anti-Trump neoconservatives ... Are all the young conservative intellectuals just grifters? ... What Matt still retains from his conservative days ... Joe Biden, our first publicly Catholic president ...

How do we know Russia was behind the Solar Winds hack? ... The political nature of cyber attribution ... Tim: A digital Geneva Convention isn’t possible—at least not yet ... Why don’t great powers want a cyber war treaty? ... Tim: We should focus on building strong international norms ... The dangers of cyber war in an interconnected world ...

Biden's slow start on North Korea ... How North Korea makes decisions ... Why sanctions haven't worked ... China's North Korea problem ... Dealing with the devil ... Jess: North Korea's goal is to be treated like a normal country ... How hawkish foreign policy rhetoric stokes racism at home ...

Biden’s slow but steady press conference performance ... Mickey gets ratio’d ... Bob attempts to convince Mickey to run for governor of California, immediately solicits a bribe ... Disappointing foreign policy decisions and the journalists that abet them ... Bob: “Blinken is totally out of control” ... The post-vaccination blues ... How intellectual property laws choke the global vaccine supply ... Parrot Room preview: Bob’s branding problem—and ours, near-death crises, JAMA deputy editor placed on leave, guaranteed income for Oakland POCs ...

Who was moral and political philosopher John Rawls? ... Why Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" is such an important text ... Is taxation an infringement on liberty? ... Understanding the freedom vs. liberty paradox ... Focusing on the poor to improve human well-being ... Accounting for earned success or failure ...

Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the media’s treatment of mass shootings, the prospects for gun control legislation, and the future of the filibuster.

Mickey breaks down the Clubhouse experience ... The Biden administration riles Russia, North Korea, and China in the space of a few days ... China’s surveillance state is creepy, but is it a threat to the U.S.? ... Mickey has some incredible PR advice for Biden ... Parrot Room NFTs: What could go wrong? ... How to use fearmongering to sell an infrastructure bill ... Mickey explains the asylum process ... A vaccine-related correction ... Parrot Room preview: Bob tells the bear hunting joke, Mickey flirts with cancellation, the Substack controversy ...

The contentious origins of Glenn and John's relationship ... Cancellations at Georgetown and racial disparities in academic performance ... What is to blame for racial disparities in academic performance? ... The quality-fit tradeoff and the mismatch effect ... Is racism widespread in American universities? ... Cornel West's departure from Harvard ...

Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the challenges facing immigration reform, the status of the filibuster, the prospects for the Democratic agenda, and the threats from Mitch McConnell.

Revisiting the Slate Star Codex-New York Times controversy ... Julia’s critique of the Times’ SSC piece ... Disentangling the Rationalists from the “Dark Enlightenment” ... What should "Scott Alexander" have done differently? ... The origins of the Rationalist community ... What is Bayesianism? ... Do the Rationalists overlap with the Intellectual Dark Web? ... Overreacting to neo-reactionaries ... Julia’s forthcoming book, The Scout Mindset ...