"Lean In" feminism and the Karen meme ... What does it mean to call the cops? ... The politics of quitting your job ... Amid the protests, past microaggressions are aired online ... Brands agree that black lives matter. Hooray? ... Examining the apology of a pretty, white lifestyle influencer ...

On shaving and summer schedules ... Bill: "A blue wave is building" ... Matt fears a monster movie–style Trump comeback ... Bill: Elected Democrats aren't on board with #DefundThePolice ... Is Kamala now the safe VP pick? ... The trouble with hashtag slogans ... Examining Tom Cotton's controversial NYT op-ed ...

John: George Floyd's murder was not an exclusively racial matter ... Glenn: "We're in the grip of hysteria" ... John: Apparently anti-racism trumps even medical science ... What it's like being a black contrarian right now ... Glenn: The real threat to black people is crime ... John argues that fixing problems with the cops has to be the first step ...

Ross's new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success ... Ross's surprising perspective on technological change ... The Back to the Future test: looking at 1955 vs. 1985 and 1985 vs. 2015 ... Is information technology leading to disruption or stagnation? ... Imagining how a new renaissance might emerge ... Space travel as an escape from decadence ... Ross is skeptical about Bob's favorite Catholic theologian, Teilhard de Chardin ... The Matrix, Wall-E, and Jesus ... Applying Ross's decadence thesis to the pandemic and the protests ...

Ross's new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success ... Ross's surprising perspective on technological change ... The Back to the Future test: looking at 1955 vs. 1985 and 1985 vs. 2015 ... Is information technology leading to disruption or stagnation? ... Imagining how a new renaissance might emerge ... Space travel as an escape from decadence ... Ross is skeptical about Bob's favorite Catholic theologian, Teilhard de Chardin ... The Matrix, Wall-E, and Jesus ... Applying Ross's decadence thesis to the pandemic and the protests ...

Why did George Floyd’s death spark such a massive uprising? ... Mickey senses a whiff of the sixties ... The debacle of clearing Lafayette Park ... Bob vs. Mickey on whether it’s time to worry about Trump’s authoritarianism ... Are progressives inviting a Trumpian catastrophe? ... Will the protesters vindicate the anti-lockdowners? ... Mickey's fears for a second Trump term: Jared unleashed ... In defense of the NYT running Tom Cotton's infamous op-ed ... Local news ...

Why did George Floyd’s death spark such a massive uprising? ... Mickey senses a whiff of the sixties ... The debacle of clearing Lafayette Park ... Bob vs. Mickey on whether it’s time to worry about Trump’s authoritarianism ... Are progressives inviting a Trumpian catastrophe? ... Will the protesters vindicate the anti-lockdowners? ... Mickey's fears for a second Trump term: Jared unleashed ... In defense of the NYT running Tom Cotton's infamous op-ed ... Local news ...

Spoiler alert! Critiquing Star Trek: Discovery and Picard ... Serial vs. episodic storytelling ... Why Dan hated Discovery's main character ... Is the show too woke? ... Debating the big twist in Picard ... Dan: Two things screw up Picard as a Star Trek show ... Throwing science out the window ... Milton: Audiences don't know what they want ... Have younger viewers turned away from science fiction? ...

Paul describes the view from Toronto ... Zero- and non-zero-sum aspects of the pandemic ... Paul: Canada's multiparty system helps defuse polarization ... A disaster without solidarity ... How our emotions caused us to underreact to the pandemic ... Masks and mobs ... Trump's fragile feelings ... Why has the external threat of the disease not united humanity? ... A deep dive into the meaning of statistical significance ...

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A return to "root causes" for racial unrest? ... Bob: The worst thing anyone in America does every day can go viral ... Mickey wonders whether the pandemic is burning out on its own ... 100K deaths but anti-lockdown forces are on the march ... Is a cold war with China now inevitable? ... Bob's advice for Biden: Don't be feisty ... Jeff Sessions tests whether GOP voters will believe anything Trump says ... Is Trump's threat to hobble social media companies just a bluff? ... Viewer feedback and a potential theme song ...