Robert Wright's Nonzero

The partisanship that bolsters Trump ... Jay’s favorite experiments on the psychology of tribalism ... Is the anti-Trump movement its own worst enemy? ... What’s going on in Trump’s brain? ... How a sports fan’s brain warps reality ... Is there hope for overcoming our tribal psychology? ... Want a retweet? Stoke moral outrage. ...

Is North Korea behind the global malware attack? ... The surprisingly long range of the missile North Korea just tested ... Why China won't solve the North Korea problem ... Options for dealing with North Korea, from bad to worst ... How Japan and South Korea are responding to escalating tensions ... Jeffrey’s advice on what to do about North Korea’s nuclear program ... The outlook for arms control under Trump ...

The Comey firing as confirmation of Trump’s disastrousness ... Was the Syria bombing politically calculated or just Trump being Trump? ... Trying to read Trump’s mind presupposes that he has one ... Did liberal dogmatism fuel the populist revolt? ... Could global governance moderate populist nationalism rather than fuel it? ... Why a universal basic income won’t work ...

WTF at the FBI ... The coming Comey blowback ... How Aryeh found peace of mind in the age of Trump ... How you can help Bloggingheads.tv (and why you should) ... Join Bob’s war on political polarization and the psychology of tribalism! ...

Why Kim Jong-un is unimpressed by U.S. attempts to intimidate ... What good are nuclear weapons if you can’t use them? ... Trump’s flashes of insight ... Rex Tillerson’s remarkable error rate ... The Trump administration’s dangerous stance on Iran ... When playing defense gets mistaken for offense ...

The bad effects of addictive tech ... How much time do you spend on your phone? ... You might be addicted if... ... The World of Warcraft as a case study in tech addiction ... The tricks Silicon Valley uses to get you hooked ... Adam’s advice for breaking your screen addiction ...

Dan's new book, The Ideas Industry ... Why thought leaders are prevailing over public intellectuals ... The new ecosystem of for-profit think tanks ... Asset bubbles in the marketplace of ideas ... A case study in thought leadership ... Improving the ideas industry ...

The inevitability of authoritarians ... Conor: Want to stop an authoritarian? Woo the conservatives. ... Is the U.S. addicted to neoconservatism? ... Failings of the Trump resistance ... How some on the left strengthen Trump ... The challenge of reporting on Trump ... Conor’s question for the Bloggingheads audience ...

Jared Kushner, the great and powerful ... Debating the morality of Trump’s “scare the immigrants” tactics ... The face-off between the Bannon and Kushner factions ... How Mickey would change Obamacare ... When Mickey and Tucker Carlson clashed over Fox News ... Bob had one hope for a Trump presidency—and now it’s gone ... Are the jackboots coming? ... When the anti-Trump movement strengthens Trump ...

Erica’s data says that non-violent resistance works ... Hallmarks of successful resistance movements ... How the anti-Trump movement measures up ... Why Syria’s uprising turned violent ... How Egypt’s revolution went wrong ... How should the U.S. respond to resistance movements abroad? ... Erica’s advice for the anti-Trump movement ...