Robert Wright's Nonzero

Economic and political effects of coronavirus ... Even viruses are processed through the lens of tribalism ... Will the virus shred the social fabric or bring people together? ... Damon: The virus will strengthen nationalism worldwide ... Could corona revive economic localism? ... Will the right blame "cosmopolitans" for spreading the virus? ... Damon: The virus reminds us how much is beyond human control ...

The coronavirus makes health care policy even more personal ... Christen on the administration's response: "They botch even the easy things" ... Bob: There's something to be said for fear during a pandemic ... Biden's plan to fortify Obamacare with a public option ... Why insurance companies might support the public option ... Assessing Bernie's Medicare for All plan ... Trump's attempts to undermine Obamacare ... Christen: The latest Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare is the dumbest ... Trump's health care plan: spend less money but give people more stuff ...

The coronavirus makes health care policy even more personal ... Christen on the administration's response: "They botch even the easy things" ... Bob: There's something to be said for fear during a pandemic ... Biden's plan to fortify Obamacare with a public option ... Why insurance companies might support the public option ... Assessing Bernie's Medicare for All plan ... Trump's attempts to undermine Obamacare ... Christen: The latest Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare is the dumbest ... Trump's health care plan: spend less money but give people more stuff ...

Unpacking the Dao De Jing's famous opening line, "The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao" ... "The way" as a descriptive and prescriptive moniker ... Rising above the perspective of the moment ... The relationship among Daoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism ... Spirituality and transcendence in Daoism ... Robin's work as a consultant on The Karate Kid remake ... Why Robin's book uses "yinyang" instead of "yin and yang" ...

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Helen's forthcoming book on gender ... Why are younger women attracted to novel gender theories? ... Social constructivism vs. self-constructivism ... Did feminists bring this upon themselves? ... Helen: Immigration caused Britain's political realignment ... Helen's narrative of the evolution of trans identity ... Why is it harder to be a girl now, when society is less sexist? ... Dan: Online porn has made teenage boys undateable ...

David (an alleged BernieBro) defends his infamous anti-Bloomberg tweet ... When good people support bad policies ... Who is more likely to beat Trump, Biden or Bernie? ... Chronicling the emergence of a Bob-friendly foreign policy ideology ... Sanders's fight against the Yemen war ... David's critique of Bloggingheads ... Bob's critique of Resistance argumentation ... What is Twitter, exactly? ...

David (an alleged BernieBro) defends his infamous anti-Bloomberg tweet ... When good people support bad policies ... Who is more likely to beat Trump, Biden or Bernie? ... Chronicling the emergence of a Bob-friendly foreign policy ideology ... Sanders's fight against the Yemen war ... David's critique of Bloggingheads ... Bob's critique of Resistance argumentation ... What is Twitter, exactly? ...

David's new book, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation ... What does the New Testament actually say about Hell? ... Original sin and the crucifixion of Jesus ... David's case against eternal damnation ... Free will, sin, and freedom ... What did "the Kingdom of Heaven" mean to Jesus? ... David: Envisioning the afterlife "always results in a kind of cartoon" ... David's quick thoughts on the mind-body problem ... Mysticism in the Eastern Orthodox Church ...

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Did the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons suppress evidence that an infamous attack in Syria didn’t actually happen? ... Evidence from OPCW whistleblowers ... Evidence that the scene of the attack was staged ... Why reporters aren't incentivized to investigate this story ... What happened at the hospital? ... OPCW's side of the story ... Why Bob is agnostic about whether the Douma attack was real or faked ... Bob: A large news organization needs to investigate this story ...

Did the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons suppress evidence that an infamous attack in Syria didn’t actually happen? ... Evidence from OPCW whistleblowers ... Evidence that the scene of the attack was staged ... Why reporters aren't incentivized to investigate this story ... What happened at the hospital? ... OPCW's side of the story ... Why Bob is agnostic about whether the Douma attack was real or faked ... Bob: A large news organization needs to investigate this story ...