Robert Wright's Nonzero

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 ...

Bob takes a victory lap on overestimated COVID deaths ... How many people have had COVID but don't know it? ... Stumbling toward economic normalcy ... Should Trump get blamed for all this? ... Mickey explains why Fox has fallen in line ... A theory about COVID being a blood disease, not a lung disease ... Mickey's triage nightmares seem not to be in the cards ... Will the presidential election be vote-by-mail? ... Should we trust the World Health Organization? ...

Bob takes a victory lap on overestimated COVID deaths ... How many people have had COVID but don't know it? ... Stumbling toward economic normalcy ... Should Trump get blamed for all this? ... Mickey explains why Fox has fallen in line ... A theory about COVID being a blood disease, not a lung disease ... Mickey's triage nightmares seem not to be in the cards ... Will the presidential election be vote-by-mail? ... Should we trust the World Health Organization? ...

Bob takes a victory lap on overestimated COVID deaths ... How many people have had COVID but don't know it? ... Stumbling toward economic normalcy ... Should Trump get blamed for all this? ... Mickey explains why Fox has fallen in line ... A theory about COVID being a blood disease, not a lung disease ... Mickey's triage nightmares seem not to be in the cards ... Will the presidential election be vote-by-mail? ... Should we trust the World Health Organization? ...

Will the pandemic forever change college education? ... Laying out the "hard problem" of consciousness ... Why panpsychism is not a solution to the problem ... The battle between radicals and conservatives in physics ... Physicalism vs. idealism ... Massimo explains "scientific metaphysics" ... Why illusionism is not a solution to the problem ... Misrepresentations vs. useful representations ...

Scott's new book, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization ... Debunking myths about Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs ... The origins of humanistic psychology ... Optimism for the thinking person ... Psychological security in an era of new threats and superficial social connections ... Psychological growth: exploration, love, and purpose ... Defining "peak experiences" ... Scott says Bob is a "transcender." Bob is skeptical. ... Is this a kind of secular spirituality? ... Evaluating peak experiences achieved through psychedelics ...

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Mickey and Bob’s big announcement ... When Mickey met Steve Bannon ... Was there any hope of keeping COVID-19 out of the US? ... Is phase two of the war against COVID a creepy surveillance state? ... Mickey and Bob argue about the supposed coronavirus cover-up in China ... Bob is shocked that Pa Kushner could buy Jared’s way into Harvard for only $2.5 million ... Mickey: What good has staying friends with China done us? ... Bob: Is it my imagination or is journalism worse than it used to be? ...

Mickey and Bob’s big announcement ... When Mickey met Steve Bannon ... Was there any hope of keeping COVID-19 out of the US? ... Is phase two of the war against COVID a creepy surveillance state? ... Mickey and Bob argue about the supposed coronavirus cover-up in China ... Bob is shocked that Pa Kushner could buy Jared’s way into Harvard for only $2.5 million ... Mickey: What good has staying friends with China done us? ... Bob: Is it my imagination or is journalism worse than it used to be? ...

Mickey and Bob’s big announcement ... When Mickey met Steve Bannon ... Was there any hope of keeping COVID-19 out of the US? ... Is phase two of the war against COVID a creepy surveillance state? ... Mickey and Bob argue about the supposed coronavirus cover-up in China ... Bob is shocked that Pa Kushner could buy Jared’s way into Harvard for only $2.5 million ... Mickey: What good has staying friends with China done us? ... Bob: Is it my imagination or is journalism worse than it used to be? ...

Robert's new book, Overdoing Democracy ... The revealing differences between Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts ... The diminishing importance of place in American culture ... How homogeneity distorts groups ... Partisan identity has become the core of our social selves ... Is this the inevitable product of late capitalism? ... What happens after Trumpism runs its course? ... Robert finds optimism in a Nashville bluegrass club ...