Pope Francis, Peacemaker Or Appeaser? (Connor Echols & Michael Brendan Dougherty) Bloggingheads.tv podcast

1:00:00

Headlines ... Bob joins to discuss Trump's first 100 days ... What the Waltz firing means for Trump's foreign policy ... Has Rubio really dropped his hawkish proclivities? ... Trump's jungle rulebook ... Is Trump putting the US on track for war with China? ... Middle East fires: Yemen, Syria, Iran ... Trump's about-face on Gaza ... Gen Z and the Trump Effect ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Can Trump Make Peace in Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven) 1:00:00

6 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

The state of play in Russia-Ukraine ... Anatol: Here’s how the war could end ... Which side wants peace more? ... Why hasn’t Trump used his leverage? ... Anatol’s plan for peace ... What Russia-Ukraine reveals about the military-industrial complex ... What Trump's military purges reveal about his presidency ... Heading to Overtime ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Pope Francis, Peacemaker or Appeaser? (Connor Echols & Michael Brendan Dougherty) 1:00:00

10 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

The new NonZero World ... Headlines ... Stories of the week ... Michael Brendan Dougherty on Pope Francis' foreign policy legacy ... Michael: The pope should be a voice for peace ... A European church no more ... Michael: The Vatican went too far in deal with China ... How the Holy See helped Obama reach out to Cuba ... The pope's moral clarity on Gaza ... A restrainer in the Vatican? ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Trump and Musk retreat as Canadian election approaches (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) 1:00:00

11 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Trump and Elon’s bad week = good news for Bob… ... …but bad news for Canada's prime minister? ... Trump’s crackdown on speech expands ... Debating embryo-screening ethics ... Heading to Overtime ...

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Trump, Modi, and the Authoritarian Playbook (Robert Wright & Pratap Bhanu Mehta) 1:00:00

13 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Pratap’s bona fides ... How Pratap ran afoul of Modi (and the price he paid) ... Trump vs Modi: compare and contrast ... India’s birth as a multi-ethnic state ... Pratap on how we got Trump (and Modi) ... Heading to Overtime ...

Bloggingheads.tv

1
KOSMOPOLITIKA#2: Where Do We Belong? (Nikita Petrov & Boris Shoshitaishvili) 1:00:00

15 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Nikita: Leaving Russia. The psychedelic lineage. Humanity is a trip, not a species ... 16 years ago, Boris took such a good nap after visiting a sacred Ancient Greek site that he still thinks about it ... In The Dark Places of Wisdom: mystical practices at the root of Western civilization ... What makes us feel we belong: identity & community ... Humanity as a planetary force ... What makes us feel we belong: values & norms ... What makes us feel we belong: direct experience ... Psychedelics & meditation in service of planetary identity ... “To be” comes from the word "to grow", "am" & "is" from "to breath" ... Rationalists ... How Socrates got himself killed ... What makes us feel we belong: awareness of inter-dependence ... Gaia, humanity, and AI are 3 generations of planetary forces ... Zizians. There's something to be said about dogma ... “DMT, death, and nanobots are the same thing, somehow” ... Humanity is still being born ... Ideas are alive ... JFK's "my fellow Americans" address, in which he casts the country as a peer to the citizen ... VR brings us back into the body ... The human experience is an image that arises from the play of ideas and matter ... Agency found in choosing one's metaphors ... Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message ... Homeric rhapsodes ... Conversation as distributed thinking ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Trump’s Anti-antisemitism Crusade (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas) 1:00:00

18 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Ron violates retirement dress code ... Trump’s “antisemitism crackdown" ... Is the Israel lobby bad for American Jews? ... The disturbing Tufts detention case ... Why don’t more progressive Jews call out the Israel lobby? ... How bad journalism makes antisemitism worse ... Heading to Overtime ...

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Untangling Trump’s Tariff Logic (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond) 1:00:00

21 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Sam's theory of (some of) Trump's tariffs ... The bad scenario and the less bad scenario ... Scott Bessent's radicalism ... Will Trump display the art of the deal? ... China's trade-war strengths ... An intentional end to American hegemony? ... Sam’s defense of chip restrictions ... Heading to Overtime ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
How Trump could strike a deal with Iran (Connor Echols & Sina Toossi) 1:00:00

24 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Sina's hopes for this weekend's US-Iran talks ... Trump's two-month clock starts ticking ... Iran's growing nuclear leverage ... Trump the dealmaker vs Trump the warmonger ... The myth of a "surgical" military campaign against Iran ... The resurgence of Iran's reformist camp ...

Bloggingheads.tv

1
The Psycho-logic of Trump’s Tariffs (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) 1:00:00

26 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Paul is Bob's worthwhile Canadian initiative ... The psycho-logic of Trump’s tariff strategy ... Has Trump exposed structural flaws in America? ... Is Musk saying Navarro is dumber than Ivanka? ... On incest ... Heading to Overtime ...

Bloggingheads.tv

1
The Real (And Fictional) Orson Welles (Robert Wright & Milton Lawson) 1:00:00

27 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Milton’s epic new comic, “Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds” ... Comics culture, then and now ... The real story behind the faux War of the Worlds broadcast ... Why Milton was drawn to Orson Welles ... What (or who) really derailed Welles’s career? ... Will Milton's comic go multimedia? ... Heading to Overtime—with Bob in the hot seat ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
The Psychopolitics of the Noosphere (audio replay) (Robert Wright, Nikita Petrov, and Boris Shoshitaishvili) 1:00:00

29 days ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Audio of the livestream titled “The Psychopolitics of the Noosphere,” the first installment in an ongoing—and evolving—collaboration between Nonzero and Psychopolitica. ...

Bloggingheads.tv

1
How Trump's tariffs could reshape the world (Connor Echols & Karthik Sankaran) 1:00:00

4 weeks ago1:00:00

1:00:00

The pro-tariff argument: national security, jobs, and leverage ... The four factions shaping US trade policy ... Karthik’s core critique of Trump’s tariff policy ... How tariffs could block development pathways for poor countries ... Is Trump blaming foreign countries for America's own policy mistakes? ... A brutal week for Vietnam ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Reid Hoffman's p(bloom) (Robert Wright & Reid Hoffman) 1:00:00

5 weeks ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Reid's new book, "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future" ... Managing technological transitions ... Using AI to build cognitive empathy ... Shaping the coming AI earthquake ... Reid's notion of "co-opetition" with China ... Geopolitics and AI development ... The US chip war on China ... Heading to Overtime ...…

Bloggingheads.tv

1
Authoritarianism in the US and Abroad (Robert Wright & Almut Rochowanski) 1:00:00

5 weeks ago1:00:00