Robert Wright's Nonzero

What most worries Richard about the economy ... Assessing the Fed's and Congress's economic interventions ... Why China is doing relatively well economically ... Richard: Conventional wisdom on debt and interest rates is wrong ... How much government spending is too much? ... Is a private debt crisis looming? ... Can the government create money without creating debt? ... Richard: Deflation is now a much bigger concern than inflation ...

What most worries Richard about the economy ... Assessing the Fed's and Congress's economic interventions ... Why China is doing relatively well economically ... Richard: Conventional wisdom on debt and interest rates is wrong ... How much government spending is too much? ... Is a private debt crisis looming? ... Can the government create money without creating debt? ... Richard: Deflation is now a much bigger concern than inflation ...

What most worries Richard about the economy ... Assessing the Fed's and Congress's economic interventions ... Why China is doing relatively well economically ... Richard: Conventional wisdom on debt and interest rates is wrong ... How much government spending is too much? ... Is a private debt crisis looming? ... Can the government create money without creating debt? ... Richard: Deflation is now a much bigger concern than inflation ...

Can we ever really know the world? ... Debating the ideas of Thomas Kuhn, famous philosopher of science ... Will we ever see the end of war? ... Errol's book about Kuhn, The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) ... Errol: Science without truth cannot live ... John sticks up for Kuhn ... Errol's vexed personal relationship with Kuhn ... Stephen Hawking's sense of humor ... Errol: "We're a dumbass species" ... The glass is half empty and filled with poison ...

Will Fauci be Trump’s next scapegoat? ... Mickey: The White House's guidelines for reopening are "insane" ... Does Trump grasp the nature of the challenge? ... The future of podcasts and what really killed blogs ... Debating whether "diversity" encourages coronavirus ... Bob accuses Mickey of spreading a racist anti-Chinese rumor ... The real villains—the cosmopolitan elites! ... Should we believe the WHO? Should we believe China? ... If Biden wins, who will actually run the government? ...

Will Fauci be Trump’s next scapegoat? ... Mickey: The White House's guidelines for reopening are "insane" ... Does Trump grasp the nature of the challenge? ... The future of podcasts and what really killed blogs ... Debating whether "diversity" encourages coronavirus ... Bob accuses Mickey of spreading a racist anti-Chinese rumor ... The real villains—the cosmopolitan elites! ... Should we believe the WHO? Should we believe China? ... If Biden wins, who will actually run the government? ...

Will Fauci be Trump’s next scapegoat? ... Mickey: The White House's guidelines for reopening are "insane" ... Does Trump grasp the nature of the challenge? ... The future of podcasts and what really killed blogs ... Debating whether "diversity" encourages coronavirus ... Bob accuses Mickey of spreading a racist anti-Chinese rumor ... The real villains—the cosmopolitan elites! ... Should we believe the WHO? Should we believe China? ... If Biden wins, who will actually run the government? ...

Jessica's new book, My War Criminal ... A capsule history of Serbian nationalism ... Radovan Karadžić, chameleon ... Karadžić's career trajectory: psychiatrist, poet, politician ... The breakup of Yugoslavia and Karadžić's rise ... Trying to understand the Serbian perspective ... Karadžić's genocidal role in the Bosnian War ... Is Karadžić an example of the banality of evil? ... The obligatory Trump parallels ... Why to explain all is not to forgive all ...

Jessica's new book, My War Criminal ... A capsule history of Serbian nationalism ... Radovan Karadžić, chameleon ... Karadžić's career trajectory: psychiatrist, poet, politician ... The breakup of Yugoslavia and Karadžić's rise ... Trying to understand the Serbian perspective ... Karadžić's genocidal role in the Bosnian War ... Is Karadžić an example of the banality of evil? ... The obligatory Trump parallels ... Why to explain all is not to forgive all ...

Jessica's new book, My War Criminal ... A capsule history of Serbian nationalism ... Radovan Karadžić, chameleon ... Karadžić's career trajectory: psychiatrist, poet, politician ... The breakup of Yugoslavia and Karadžić's rise ... Trying to understand the Serbian perspective ... Karadžić's genocidal role in the Bosnian War ... Is Karadžić an example of the banality of evil? ... The obligatory Trump parallels ... Why to explain all is not to forgive all ...