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 ...

Agustín on what he was and wasn’t saying in his controversial Science piece on Darwin ... What is biological anthropology? ... What social media critiques of Agustín’s editorial missed ... Untangling Darwin’s attitudes toward race and genocide ... Darwin’s worries about his theory’s acceptance ... What do female gibbons want? ... Agustín: Commonly used racial categories are unscientific ... The changing rules for competition among males ... Okay, so should we cancel Darwin or not? ...

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Mickey: Where's the anti-woke Tea Party? ... How far will Democrats go with budget reconciliation? ... Can Trump really be reinstated? ... Bye-bye Bibi ... Mickey's got good news for the Wuhan lab and bad news for pangolins ... Mickey: Just let Naomi Osaka play tennis ... Bob reminisces about life as a journalist pre-Twitter ... Mickey: We don't need more electric car subsidies ... Bob's not impressed by the NYT's UFO reporting ... Parrot Room preview: UFOs, Idiocracy, the Philadelphia sound, the situation in Xinjiang, Naomi Osaka, Huawei strikes back, and J.D. Vance ...

A primer on Xinjiang's history ... Are Uyghur women facing forced sterilization? ... China's counter-terrorism justification ... Sinifying" the Uyghurs ... What we know about the detention camps ... How many people have gone through the camps? ... Can outside pressure change China's policy? ...

Two podcasters, three definitions of neoliberalism ... What rules the ruling class? ... Phil Mickelson’s record-breaking PGA win ... Mickey: The Epstein guard verdict bodes ill for Ghislaine ... Is the left starting to worry about rising crime rates? ... You attend one Nazi sex party … ... Bob: What Belarus did was wrong, but what about … ... Parrot Room preview: UFOs, a Wuhan-stravaganza, cable news ratings, Hunter Biden, a Times reporter calls the lab leak theory racist, a trans track controversy, more Gates, etc. ...

Defining effective altruism ... Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’ ... Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change? ... The Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How cognitive biases fuel tribalism ... Bob: We need a psychological revolution ... Are external threats the best way to bring people together? ... The balance between surveillance and public safety ... Bob: Let's retire the word 'apologist' ... Making rationality cool ... Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in "The Moral Animal" ...

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Mickey voices concerns over Ford’s new electric truck ... Is Bitcoin worth the cost? ... Bob and Mickey manage to politicize cicadas ... The AP’s dismissal of a young journalist ... Bob: The Gaza conflict seems to have unified Palestinians ... Mickey: Republicans will get squeezed by Trump and the abortion issue ... The looming threat of inflation ... Do we need a 1/6 commission? ... Parrot Room preview: The Gatesgate plot thickens, a McKay Coppins beef, Mickey and Bob’s Slow Burn bonus content surfaces, UFOs, Charles Grodin, cancellation at Basecamp, A Face in the Crowd concluded, and a Jonathan Chait tweet ...

Covid and inequities between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis ... The aftereffects of the conflict ... Will the conflict benefit Netanyahu? ... The shift in American opinion on Israel-Palestine ... Biden and Bibi ... How Israelis view the world’s view of Israel ...

The symbolic power of Sheikh Jarrah ... Fadi: Palestinians are more united than they have been in years ... The case for a rights-based approach to the conflict ... Will a majority of Israeli Jews ever support a one-state solution? ... How Palestinians view Hamas today ... The resilience of Palestinian national identity ... Overcoming fear ...

Like a mask to a flame ... The latest episode in the Israel-Palestine conflict ... Can Liz Cheney make the GOP a safe space for hawks? ... Trump’s continuing influence over Republican politics ... Mickey: Biden will pull an about-face on immigration ... Bob: We should be talking about a one-state solution ... Goodbye Gates matrimony, hello Wright parsimony ... Bob mocks microwave weapon story, thus inviting microwave weapon attack ... Will Biden choose bipartisanship over progressivism? ... Parrot Room preview: Mickey’s next visual gag, a mild critique of Slow Burn, A Face in the Crowd, Bob Dylan trivia, and to sell ads or not to sell ads ...