Robert Wright's Nonzero

Mickey’s beef with Jeffrey Toobin ... Reviewing the final presidential debate ... Parsing the Hunter Biden emails ... The case against Joe Biden (and the case against the case) ... Three models of media scandal suppression ... Maybe Rudy Giuliani is just a glitch in the Matrix ... Could the pandemic actually kill 200,000 more people this year? ... Mickey sort of almost finally says he’s voting for Trump ...

John's new book, The Socialist Awakening ... Bob wonders: Am I a socialist? ... Why Americans under 40 are so receptive to socialism ... Revisiting John's 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority ... How Trump pushed Democrats to the extreme on immigration ... Is socialism compatible with identity politics? ... Can labor issues be addressed at the multinational level? ... Why Trump just can't change ...

What do Hunter Biden’s (purported) emails reveal (if anything)? ... Biden's alleged corruption vs. Trump's well-documented corruption ... Bob frets that the VP debate hurt Biden ... How Covid could tip a swing state ... Grading Biden's town hall performance ... Bob tells Biden what to say about court packing ... Would a Biden presidency be transformative? ... Is Trump's immigration crackdown making the pandemic worse? ... Mickey calls on Biden to have a "Sister Swamp-jah" moment ...

Guthrie's new book, Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity ... Guthrie's personal faith journey ... The tradition of liberal Protestantism ... Human sexuality and evangelicalism ... Guthrie sees a liberatory counternarrative in Scripture ... What drives militant atheism? ... What happened to Christian antiwar activism? ... Do young progressives privilege identity over class? ... Why Guthrie prays for President Trump ...

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Is Trump using steroids as a performance enhancing drug? ... Are the wheels coming off the Trump campaign? ... Bob and Mickey mansplain the VP debate ... Biden’s weird mishandling of the court packing issue ... Bob: Kamala came off as presidential enough ... Mickey on the real reason Pelosi is talking about the 25th Amendment ... Trump's reckless rhetoric and the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer ... The crisis gave Trump an opportunity, and he blew it ... Are the Proud Boys white nationalists? (cont’d) ... We've reached 500 patrons! Sign up today! ...

Defining "neoconservatism" ... The Iraq War and its blowback ... When is military intervention justified? ... Bret accuses Bob of embodying isolationist conservative Robert Taft ... Bret: Syria vindicates the neoconservative perspective ... How Secretary of State Bret would deal with China ... Evaluating the economic sanctions on Venezuela, Iran, and Syria ... Is the WTO a failure? ... How Bret's mind has changed on climate change ...

Trump has Covid. Here are four ways it could go. ... Is Trump the superspreader? ... Mickey: Trump's pandemic failure was not being xenophobic enough! ... Why Trump's debate performance was so over the top ... What each candidate failed to do ... Debating what Trump meant when he told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" ... Mickey, Hamlet-like, ponders his vote ... Bob's theory on how the debate could hurt Trump post-election ... Why polls may be even less reliable this year than in 2016 ...

Applying cognitive empathy to the Supreme Court vacancy fight ... The danger of runaway retaliation ... Reviewing The Social Dilemma, a new documentary critical of social media ... Enhance your online stature by vilifying the other tribe! ... How will historians view the social media era? ... Can Democrats oppose Barrett mindfully? ... The links between yoga and mindfulness ...

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Does Trump even want to be reelected? ... Debating Biden's and Trump's relative cognitive declines ... Aryeh: The material conditions will overpower campaign messaging ... Bob fears BLM is objectively helping Trump ... Aryeh's bold election prediction ... A unified theory of Bobism ... QAnon and a world without social media ...

Debating Trump's comments about the peaceful transfer of power ... Could a few state legislatures hijack the electoral college? ... RBG's death and Republican hypocrisy ... If Roe gets overturned, will red states turn blue? ... The case for Supreme Court term limits ... Will the Breonna Taylor case lead to systemic reforms? ... Mickey gives debate tips to Biden ... Obituaries: Harold Evans, Stephen F. Cohen, and Sherle Schwenninger ... More evidence linking the late Steve Bing to the late Jeffrey Epstein ... Bob's golf equipment update ... Will mail-in ballots cause marital rifts? ...