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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 ...

Will the pandemic inspire terrorists to engineer biological weapons? ... The answer to last week’s riddle revealed ... Debating Biden’s chances of remaining in the race ... Mickey’s theory of the Michael Flynn affair ... The tribal dynamics of the pandemic ... Whither Mickey’s hopes for social equality amidst the pandemic? ... Mickey and Bob argue about the TV show Devs ...

Will the pandemic inspire terrorists to engineer biological weapons? ... The answer to last week’s riddle revealed ... Debating Biden’s chances of remaining in the race ... Mickey’s theory of the Michael Flynn affair ... The tribal dynamics of the pandemic ... Whither Mickey’s hopes for social equality amidst the pandemic? ... Mickey and Bob argue about the TV show Devs ...

Will the pandemic inspire terrorists to engineer biological weapons? ... The answer to last week’s riddle revealed ... Debating Biden’s chances of remaining in the race ... Mickey’s theory of the Michael Flynn affair ... The tribal dynamics of the pandemic ... Whither Mickey’s hopes for social equality amidst the pandemic? ... Mickey and Bob argue about the TV show Devs ...

John fails the coronavirus antibody test; Bob consoles him ... Science fiction, free will, and robot sex ... The Devs interpretation of quantum mechanics ... The Wright-Horgan interpretation of Devs, part 1 (spoilers) ... The Wright-Horgan interpretation of Devs, part 2 (lots of spoilers) ... John: we need the concept of free will more than we need God ... Is the many worlds interpretation consoling or terrifying? ...

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The continuing battle over gender in philosophy ... Harm avoidance vs. competing interests ... Jesse: There's disagreement within the trans community over what it means to be trans ... Dan: "This is madness to everyone other than the people inside the tent" ... The social dynamics of philosophy ... Ordinary language and "they" ... Will the trans movement moderate? ... Dan: Philosophy is in trouble and the pandemic is making it worse ...

Mickey’s face, Bob’s face, and other pandemic-related things ... Will Tara Reade derail the Biden nomination? ... The human cost of herd immunity ... Stoking and quelling antagonism toward China ... The “slow, creeping degradation” of governance under Trump ... Will Trump pay the ultimate political price for mishandling the Covid crisis? ... Bob versus the statisticians (and some good news about remdesivir) ... How will we think back on the pandemic in 30 years? ...

Mickey’s face, Bob’s face, and other pandemic-related things ... Will Tara Reade derail the Biden nomination? ... The human cost of herd immunity ... Stoking and quelling antagonism toward China ... The “slow, creeping degradation” of governance under Trump ... Will Trump pay the ultimate political price for mishandling the Covid crisis? ... Bob versus the statisticians (and some good news about remdesivir) ... How will we think back on the pandemic in 30 years? ...

Mickey’s face, Bob’s face, and other pandemic-related things ... Will Tara Reade derail the Biden nomination? ... The human cost of herd immunity ... Stoking and quelling antagonism toward China ... The “slow, creeping degradation” of governance under Trump ... Will Trump pay the ultimate political price for mishandling the Covid crisis? ... Bob versus the statisticians (and some good news about remdesivir) ... How will we think back on the pandemic in 30 years? ...

Michael's new book, Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right ... The hidden factor in the story of Bret Weinstein and Evergreen College ... Why exactly is Ben Shapiro part of the Intellectual Dark Web? ... What Jordan Peterson gets right ... Michael's proposed political answer: "socialist cosmopolitanism" ... Michael: "Electorally, it's an extremely bleak time" ... Condemning Biden's anti-China rhetoric ... How should the American left view China? ...