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Matt Lewis and Bill Scher explore whether the Senate can convict Trump, if the GOP establishment has the courage to take on Trump, and if Democrats can legislate with the filibuster in place.

Daniel's analysis of QAnon and the storming of the Capitol ... Is QAnon a religious cult? An alternative reality game run amok? ... Cultural vs. material explanations for Trump's rise ... Did the rioters get close to actually accomplishing anything? ... America's civic religion and why the left is unlikely to win ... Is Trump the worst president in American history? ... Aryeh praises and critiques Mickey Kaus ... The rise and fall of intellectual contrarianism ...

Navalny’s return ... Putin’s palace ... Anti-Putin protests ... The tastelessness of dictators ... The limits of government control in Russia ... Is FSB competent? ... Giuliani’s part in Borat 2 ... Incompetent doesn’t mean "not dangerous" ... Grown-ups, society as a game ... Gender and transgender roles ... QAnon and Antifa as LARP games ... John’s story of seeing Antifa violence ... John’s hesitation to embrace the mystics’ view of life as a game ... The importance of make-believe realities ... Pond hockey as a metaphor for society ... The privilege of choosing roles to play ... Solving the problem of inequality wouldn’t remove violence and suffering ... Sorrow is a part of the human condition ... Removing sorrow through biohacking ... DMT ... Scientology and Hinduism on roles we play ... The Bhagavad Gita on war ... How do games evolve? ... Glossolalia (speaking in tongues) ... AI ... Do we create drama because life has gotten too good? ...

Biden’s not-quite unifying appeal for unity ... The uses of impeachment ... Steve Bannon’s conspiratorial take on the inauguration ... Is Mickey’s immigration amnesty nightmare coming true? ... Could the Senate actually convict Trump? ... Biden’s disappointingly unambitious vaccination plan ... Tony Blinken’s “ridiculous” stance toward Venezuela ... What explains the (slightly) improving Covid numbers? ... Parrot Room preview: Phil Spector, more Bannon, the plan to conquer Facebook, etc. ...

Glenn Show 2.0 and reactions to the storming of the Capitol ... What if it was BLM protesters that stormed the Capitol? ... Glenn: I was wrong about the threat Trump posed to democracy ... The tectonic plates shifting beneath American society and politics ... Glenn and John debate the merits of impeachment ...

Bill's hot new hairstyle ... Biden's blessedly platitudinous inauguration address ... How flexible will Biden be on border security? ... Bipartisan signaling from the Republicans ... Matt: If Trump wants to start a new party, bring it on ... Fox News' attempt to maintain its political influence ... Trump's decision to ignore judges and focus on pardons ... Can the 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court hold? ...

Defining feminist foreign policy ... A feminist take on economic sanctions ... How to deal with undemocratic institutions like the UN Security Council ... Do we need reparations on a global scale? ... Keeping human rights discourse safe from the hawks ... Marissa: Brexit is rooted in colonial nostalgia ...

How late is too late to abandon Trump? ... Reconstructing the runup to Trump’s impeachable anti-Pence tweet ... Why an impeachment trial could be a mistake ... How do you actually get rid of Trump once he leaves office? ... Steve Bannon’s insidious adaptation to his YouTube deplatforming ... The future of Josh Hawley ... Mickey horrified by vaccine regime ... A sneak peek into the Parrot Room ...

The three books that pushed Glenn away from the right ... A crisis of identity: who is Glenn Loury and what is his project? ... Glenn's left-leaning moderatism and work in the 90s ... The link between Glenn's economic work and his social theory ... The evolution of Glenn's perspective on Obama ... The Iraq War, the 2008 crash, and how "the elites failed us" ... The current and future state of the American university ...

Matt and Bill discuss the political reverberations of impeachment, the long-term health of the Republican Party, and whether we need a new domestic terrorism law.