Robert Wright's Nonzero

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 ...

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 ...

Remembering Andrew’s recently deceased dog Eddy ... Can we explain the bond between dogs and people? ... The many disgusting things that dogs love ... Andrew angers the cat lovers in the audience ... Are there actually "cat people" and "dog people"? ... Dogs' use of affection as a tool ... What can we learn from dogs about how to be present? ... Andrew: "I do think that after death I will be with my dogs" ... Andrew wants the economy to open up—a little ...

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Jacqueline's new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World ... Female saints as childhood role models ... How Jacqueline helped start Rwanda's first microfinance bank ... Jacqueline's "patient capital" investment nonprofit, Acumen ... The four steps toward building moral imagination ... Toilet entrepreneurship in Nairobi ... Changing the market for coffee and chocolate farmers ... Can identity connect as well as it divides? ... Jacqueline: A moral revolution must come from inside us ...

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Mickey betrays Bob on Twitter ... With some states reopening, what have we learned? ... Debating "decoupling" from China ... Trump fires IGs; Bob frets, Mickey is blasé ... Tara Reade’s credibility takes a hit ... Were the layoffs at The Atlantic less than meets the eye? ... Bob's media criticism, pro- and anti-Trump editions ... Mickey rebuts Adam Serwer on Trump, race, and the virus ... Why are there no anti-immigration liberals? ... Why Bob doesn't want Klob to have the VP job ... Mickey's Devs mea culpa ... Viewer mail ... Grading Ben Smith’s NYT takedown of Ronan Farrow ...

Mickey betrays Bob on Twitter ... With some states reopening, what have we learned? ... Debating "decoupling" from China ... Trump fires IGs; Bob frets, Mickey is blasé ... Tara Reade’s credibility takes a hit ... Were the layoffs at The Atlantic less than meets the eye? ... Bob's media criticism, pro- and anti-Trump editions ... Mickey rebuts Adam Serwer on Trump, race, and the virus ... Why are there no anti-immigration liberals? ... Why Bob doesn't want Klob to have the VP job ... Mickey's Devs mea culpa ... Viewer mail ... Grading Ben Smith’s NYT takedown of Ronan Farrow ...

Dan's in-progress book, Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics ... Avoiding the "crazy positions" ... A stereoscopic view of the "scientific" and "manifest" images ... Dan: A world with people in it is only explainable in fragmentary terms ... Crispin sees the leading edge of the new dualism ... On the ontological status of coming-of-age stories ... Previewing future fights ...

Ezra's new book, Why We're Polarized ... How ideology became identity ... Could Trump have realigned American politics? ... Ezra: All politics is identity politics ... Why “this person is not like us” is a way to go viral ... Why the two political parties stopped cooperating ... Ezra wants to see more small-d democratization in America ... When winning is losing ... Trump's one weird trick for hacking the media ...

Ezra's new book, Why We're Polarized ... How ideology became identity ... Could Trump have realigned American politics? ... Ezra: All politics is identity politics ... Why “this person is not like us” is a way to go viral ... Why the two political parties stopped cooperating ... Ezra wants to see more small-d democratization in America ... When winning is losing ... Trump's one weird trick for hacking the media ...