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The Wright Show

Bloggingheads.tv

Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.

society & culture philosophy

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The CIA and the JFK Assassination (Robert Wright &...

The Wright Show ·

2025/03/27

The new JFK documents dump ... The conflict between JFK and the CIA ... The Pentagon false flag plan that JFK vetoed ... How CIA funding shaped the Oswald narrative ... James Jesus Angleton’s handling of Oswald ... Some lies told by CIA officials ... Files the CIA still won’t release ...

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The Long Lineage of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Robert...

The Wright Show ·

2025/03/19

Jeet’s plans for Canadian resistance ... Trump 2.0: Making “autarkic imperialism” great again? ... The hidden logic of Trump’s tariffs ... The historical roots of Trumpism ... How Trump won the GOP civil war ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

Another DeepSeek Moment? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)

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2025/03/14

Connor’s Cuba adventure ... Chinese-owned Manus AI makes waves ... Is Manus just a fancy ‘wrapper’ for US AI? ... Why Manus makes global AI cooperation more urgent ... Can Trump deport a green card holder over political speech? ... Making sense of Trump's Ukraine strategy ...

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01:00:00

Canada, Tesla, and Other Trump-Musk Troubles (Robert...

The Wright Show ·

2025/03/13

Does Paul have CDS (Chaos Desensitization Syndrome)? ... Worthwhile Canadian backlash ... Elon’s Tesla problem ... Trump 2.0’s free speech crackdown ... The primal psychology of Trump and Elon ... Bezos and university presidents bow to Trump ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

50 Days of Trump 2.0 (Robert Wright & Eric Levitz)

The Wright Show ·

2025/03/11

Is the chaos starting to subside? ... Trump’s tariff strategy (or lack thereof) ... Trump’s baffling, backfiring Canada obsession ... Elon’s darkly weird grandfather ... Has America gone full oligarchy? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (Robert Wright & Dan...

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2025/03/05

Dan’s new paper, “Superintelligence Strategy” ... “Mutually assured AI malfunction” ... Does China see America’s AI policy as a grave threat? ... How likely is US-China conflict over superintelligence? ... How America’s chip war makes war over Taiwan more likely ... Why did China-hawkism sweep Silicon Valley? ... Can we avoid AI doom without global governance? ... The key points of Dan’s paper ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Interpreting AI’s Acceleration (Robert Wright & Nora...

The Wright Show ·

2025/02/19

Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability ... Is *a* singularity near? ... Nora: AI may take my job within two years ... The reason(ing) behind AI’s latest acceleration ... Thinking through the “chain-of-thought” process ... AI “thinking” vs human thinking ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

Canada vs Trump, OpenAI vs Google (and Musk) (Robert...

The Wright Show ·

2025/02/13

The newly united state of Canada ... What’s Elon’s endgame? ... Ross Douthat gives doubting Paul pause ... Which AI ad won the Super Bowl? ... The real stakes of Elon’s OpenAI bid ... Trump 2.0's free speech hypocrisy ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

Trump's Shock-and-Awe: Madness or Method? (Connor...

The Wright Show ·

2025/02/08

Housekeeping ... Making sense of the USAID cuts ... Trump's push for ethnic cleansing in Gaza ... How Trump's tariffs undermine US power ... Deep Research and the AI arms race ...

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01:00:00

The China AI Panic (Robert Wright, Connor Echols, and...

The Wright Show ·

2025/01/31

Some brief NonZero World housekeeping ... Trump, China and AI ... Connor's interview with national security law expert Elizabeth Beavers about Trump's use of terror designations ...

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01:00:00

American Problems, Global Solutions (Connor Echols &...

The Wright Show ·

2025/01/25

Intro ... Natasha's new book, Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe ...

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Human Agency vs "Agentic” AI (Robert Wright & Kanjun...

The Wright Show ·

2025/01/23

Intro ... Kanjun’s role as CEO of AI research lab Imbue ... Worrying about a “Wall-E world” ... Building human-centric AI agents ... How far away is truly “agentic” AI? ... The road to AI serfdom ... Does the AI revolution call for a psychological revolution? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

Jimmy Carter vs. Donald Trump (Robert Wright, Derek...

The Wright Show ·

2025/01/10

The NonZero-American Prestige punk-rock crossover continues ... Is it time to freak out about Trump? ... Are international norms eroding? ... Jimmy Carter’s legacy ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Fixing the International Order (Robert Wright & Trita...

The Wright Show ·

2025/01/06

Intro ... Toward a non-woolly-minded one-worldism ... Has the unipolar moment passed for good? ... International law vs the “rules-based order” ... Is major UN reform possible? ... AI, US-China, and multipolarity ... Rewriting the sanctions playbook ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

The State of the NonZero Media Empire (Robert Wright)

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2025/01/03

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01:00:00

Glenn Loury Interviews Bob (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)

The Wright Show ·

2024/12/31

The uncertain future of AI ... What would it mean to “lose the AI race” to China? ... The promise and peril of artificial general intelligence ... The international policy challenges of AI ... Can Trump deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine? ... Are there any good arguments for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense? ... Bob: With Iran weakened, Israel faces a decision: bombs or diplomacy ... The continuing assault on Gaza ... Antiwar speech codes ... Apartheid, genocide, ethnic

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01:00:00

Quasi-Year-End Edition (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

The Wright Show ·

2024/12/28

Worthwhile Canadian conquest ... Late takes on Luigi Mangione ... Elon’s AI motivation ... Is the successor species sentient? (It matters!) ... Paul’s AI freakout has arrived ... AI buzzword of the year revealed ... Bluesky brutality ... Google’s experimental AI groks humanity ... Heading to Overtime ...

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01:00:00

Three Decades of Bad Foreign Policy (Robert Wright &...

The Wright Show ·

2024/12/17

Scott’s anti-war libertarianism and his new book, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine ... How the US made the Russia-Ukraine war more likely ... Was Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution a US-backed coup? ... America’s promise to the Soviet Union not to expand NATO ... Do US officials misunderstand Russia’s perspective? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Are Neocons Taking over Trump 2.0? (Andrew Day,...

The Wright Show ·

2024/12/14

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Reassembling Syria (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

The Wright Show ·

2024/12/12

Syria’s uncertain political future ... Has the Islamist rebel group HTS actually moderated? ... The extent of retributive violence since Assad fell ... Syria's complicated factional divides ... America's control of Syrian oil fields ... Heading to Overtime ...

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