Robert Wright's Nonzero

Gabe, just returned from a stint in China, on the controversial tech giant Huawei ... Is the battle over Huawei in fact just about curbing China's power? ... The "did we get China wrong?" debate ... Gabe (kind of) defends Trump's tariff policy ... Thirty years after Tiananmen Square, is political reform dead? ... What outsiders don't understand about the oppression of the Uighurs ...

David's new book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet ... Did social media companies treat Alex Jones unfairly? ... Why online censorship is much easier than it was 15 years ago ... Bob proposes a "free market of algorithms" ... Why the Global South loses out ... How Facebook helped Trump's anti-Iran policy ... David: American sensibilities shouldn't dominate online moderation ... The Chinese government's mastery of online control ... International human rights law as a guiding light ...

David's new book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet ... Did social media companies treat Alex Jones unfairly? ... Why online censorship is much easier than it was 15 years ago ... Bob proposes a "free market of algorithms" ... Why the Global South loses out ... How Facebook helped Trump's anti-Iran policy ... David: American sensibilities shouldn't dominate online moderation ... The Chinese government's mastery of online control ... International human rights law as a guiding light ...

Bob introduces the idea of Mindful Resistance ... Mindfulness is all about clarity ... Mindfulness as a weapon against Trumpian tribalism ... Buddhism opposes an essentialist view of Trump supporters (and of anything else) ... Salvation of self and salvation of the world ... Question and answer session ...

Bob introduces the idea of Mindful Resistance ... Mindfulness is all about clarity ... Mindfulness as a weapon against Trumpian tribalism ... Buddhism opposes an essentialist view of Trump supporters (and of anything else) ... Salvation of self and salvation of the world ... Question and answer session ...

Max's new book, The Management of Savagery ... How arming rebels in Afghanistan put America on the path to 9/11 ... Threat inflation in the War on Terror ... The "seamless continuity" between the Iraq War and the Syrian civil war ... Max: US actions in Syria caused Russia to intervene ... Critiquing Obama's foreign policy ... Max's case against the White Helmets in Syria ...

Max's new book, The Management of Savagery ... How arming rebels in Afghanistan put America on the path to 9/11 ... Threat inflation in the War on Terror ... The "seamless continuity" between the Iraq War and the Syrian civil war ... Max: US actions in Syria caused Russia to intervene ... Critiquing Obama's foreign policy ... Max's case against the White Helmets in Syria ...

Richard's new book, A Brief History of Doom ... The forgotten causes of the Great Depression ... Parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession ... Richard: If Obama had done more for consumers, Trump would not be president ... How railroads led to lots of financial crises in the nineteenth century ... The real economic story of the 1980s ... The late twentieth-century Japanese boom and bust, all due to debt ... Richard: The China crash is coming ... About that BuzzFeed story saying Richard may run for president... ...

Richard's new book, A Brief History of Doom ... The forgotten causes of the Great Depression ... Parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession ... Richard: If Obama had done more for consumers, Trump would not be president ... How railroads led to lots of financial crises in the nineteenth century ... The real economic story of the 1980s ... The late twentieth-century Japanese boom and bust, all due to debt ... Richard: The China crash is coming ... About that BuzzFeed story saying Richard may run for president... ...

Richard's new book, A Brief History of Doom ... The forgotten causes of the Great Depression ... Parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession ... Richard: If Obama had done more for consumers, Trump would not be president ... How railroads led to lots of financial crises in the nineteenth century ... The real economic story of the 1980s ... The late twentieth-century Japanese boom and bust, all due to debt ... Richard: The China crash is coming ... About that BuzzFeed story saying Richard may run for president... ...