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Andrew's new book, The Age of Illusions ... Andrew's ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR ... Defining foreign policy "realism" ... How Clinton, GWB, and Obama were captured by the post–Cold War consensus ... Will international law ever command wide respect? ... 1992 as a harbinger of 2016 ... The political logic behind America’s endless drone war ... Why Trump keeps failing to end the wars he wants to end ... How Andrew's service in Vietnam shaped his worldview ...

Andrew's new book, The Age of Illusions ... Andrew's ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR ... Defining foreign policy "realism" ... How Clinton, GWB, and Obama were captured by the post–Cold War consensus ... Will international law ever command wide respect? ... 1992 as a harbinger of 2016 ... The political logic behind America’s endless drone war ... Why Trump keeps failing to end the wars he wants to end ... How Andrew's service in Vietnam shaped his worldview ...

In a new TEDx talk, Alex calls for a science of UFOs ... Why Bob finds two naval sightings credible ... Alex: "There's some decent chance that these things are alien" ... Alex's proposal for a UFO monitoring system ... Might it be suicidal to let ETs know that we know about them? ... Alex: Maybe the aliens are waiting for us to figure it out ... What explains the taboo against academic study of UFOs? ... Alex's willingness to be misperceived as a crank ...

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Skye and Massimo's new co-edited book, with Daniel Kaufman, How to Live a Good Life ... Existentialism's intersections with Stoicism ... How Skye encountered Existentialism while in business school ... Sartre and de Beauvoir's famous attempt to live a life of freedom ... Are philosophers a bunch of hypocrites? ... Personal authenticity vs. social convention ... Why Stoicism doesn’t mean passive acceptance ... Skye and Massimo on the philosophies they found most interesting ... How Wittgenstein would view this book ...

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David says a “narrative of brokenness” distorts news and politics ... Bob laments the demise of the ideal of journalistic objectivity ... David explains "solutions journalism" ... Making stories about solutions sexy ... Does the Solutions Journalism Network have an ideological bias? ... Insights from red states ... Defying the market forces that work against solutions journalism ...

David says a “narrative of brokenness” distorts news and politics ... Bob laments the demise of the ideal of journalistic objectivity ... David explains "solutions journalism" ... Making stories about solutions sexy ... Does the Solutions Journalism Network have an ideological bias? ... Insights from red states ... Defying the market forces that work against solutions journalism ...

Steve's critique of NPR's Scott Simon ... Bob's larger grievance against NPR ... The media’s implicit bias in favor of military intervention ... Dual theories about the NYT’s weird dual endorsement ... How Steve's paper, the Chicago Tribune, has shrunk ... Is Bernie well positioned to run against Trump? ... The Houston Astros and the whistleblower who exposed their cheating ...

Steve's critique of NPR's Scott Simon ... Bob's larger grievance against NPR ... The media’s implicit bias in favor of military intervention ... Dual theories about the NYT’s weird dual endorsement ... How Steve's paper, the Chicago Tribune, has shrunk ... Is Bernie well positioned to run against Trump? ... The Houston Astros and the whistleblower who exposed their cheating ...

Daniel, a Trump supporter, says the politics of impeachment favor the GOP ... Debating Trump's alleged Ukraine transgressions ... What liberals don't get about the nature of Trump's support ... Pat Buchanan and the politics of cultural difference ... The case against "good government" ... Daniel touts Trump's "personalized" foreign policy ... What Daniel doesn't like about Trump ...

Daniel, a Trump supporter, says the politics of impeachment favor the GOP ... Debating Trump's alleged Ukraine transgressions ... What liberals don't get about the nature of Trump's support ... Pat Buchanan and the politics of cultural difference ... The case against "good government" ... Daniel touts Trump's "personalized" foreign policy ... What Daniel doesn't like about Trump ...