BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

Elizabeth’s time working for Jared Kushner as editor of the New York Observer ... Is there more to Kushner than family loyalty? ... The Kushner family’s looming financing deadline for 666 Fifth Avenue ... Why Elizabeth resigned as editor of the Observer ... Elizabeth, founding editor of Gawker, talks about Peter Thiel’s destruction of it ... What Gawker got about politics and the lowbrow ...

Katherine: Libertarianism has often been ahead of the curve ... Liberal smugness vs. conservative trolling ... The different values left and right bring to politics ... What conservatives learned from Jon Stewart ... Katherine on the 2016 election: “President Smug gave way to President Troll” ... Ending on a note of pessimism ...

Is the NYT Op-Ed page serving the public discourse? ... Andrew: Quality of argument matters more than the identity of the speaker ... How Trump and identity politics reinforce each other ... Andrew is irritated by the idea of an "LBGTQ community" ... Bob: Evolutionary psychology isn't right-wing ... The opioid epidemic and America's hidden pain ... Floating the idea of "meta-conservatism" ...

If Bob and Greg can’t bridge America’s tribal divide, who can? ... One cure for tribalism ... How tribalism triumphs over ideology ... Is Trump crazy like a fox, or just crazy? ... Greg: Identity politics is "nothing but division" ... Does language policing help Trump? ... Fox News in the scheme of things ...

David: Strong national spirit is wonderful so long as it’s inclusive ... Trump makes liberals rethink their suspicion of the intelligence community ... David: Party loyalties may not withstand this century’s unique problems ... Why Trump's seeming ambivalence about domestic abuse allegations could drive off moderate Republicans for good ... David’s new book, Trumpocracy, surveys Trump’s damage to the American Republic ...

Matt: Why I resigned from Newsweek ... Why is the Manhattan DA investigating Newsweek's parent company? ... Populism, polarization, and page views ... The lost world of the dominant newsweekly ... Henry Luce's hidden editorializing at Time ... Can the newsweekly’s original mission be realized in the digital age? ...

Unpacking the name of Max’s new podcast, Moderate Rebels ... Max contends that James Wolcott’s “alt-left” doesn’t exist ... Where do lefties stand on Russia? ... Why Max doubts the DNC leaks swung the 2016 election ... How Vice’s hip branding “normalizes American empire” ... Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, etc.: Max's ideological taxonomy of media sites ...

Mickey gives Trump his first-year grades ... Mickey: Cultural assimilation matters in immigration policy​ ... Were Democrats to blame for the government shutdown? ... The human consequences of ICE’s enforcement tactics ... Bob’s crazy left-wing one-worlder trade policy proposal ... Why are Apple and Starbucks giving Trump good publicity? ... Is ​President ​Trump even worse than Bob expected? ...

What we know right now about the Steele dossier ... Marcy: The dossier is a series of "near-misses" ... Did Trump and Russia collude? Would that be a crime? ... The quid was leaking stolen emails. What was the quo? ... Marcy thinks there’s more to the infamous Trump Tower meeting than has met the eye ... Is Kushner's "peace plan" just a way to bail out his family's ailing business? ... Marcy on the future of the investigation: "Don't expect anything" ...

Explaining "Mindful Resistance" ... David Brooks vs. David Frum on anti-Trumpism ... Is Trump crazy (like a fox)? ... What the average citizen can do to oppose Trump ... Is there a Trumpism without Trump? ... Looking for policies that would undermine Trump's appeal ... Future plans for Mindful Resistance ... Should anti-Trumpers fight dirty? ...

How the tax cut “made a lot of rich people richer” ... Why infrastructure is crumbling and public education is in trouble ... How Richard’s Middle America focus groups worked ... Americans care less about Obamacare than you think ... Are the economics of healthcare leading us to socialized medicine? ... What does and doesn't bother Middle Americans about immigration ... Why so many Americans aren’t fazed by climate change, terrorism, or global trade ... Why science could soon turn the tide against cancer, diabetes, and heart disease ...

Bob: Beware of anti-Trump neocons ... How Bill Kristol helped create Trumpism ... Are neocons using Trump to rehabilitate themselves? ... Dan: The Trump foreign policy team excels at incompetence ... Trying to not overreact to the Troll-in-Chief ... Is it time to get alarmed about war with North Korea? ...

Bob and Judith try to rank the sexual predators in terms of badness, from Harvey Weinstein on down ... Male power in all its variety ... Are we entering a neo-Victorian era? ... Why understanding isn't forgiveness ... Stepping down in disgrace as a career move ... After the purge, will women finally feel at home in the workplace? ... Bob and Judith share their own experiences with workplace sexual harassment ...

Betsy’s work on prejudice and conflict earns her a MacArthur “Genius” grant ... Betsy: Media tells us what other people think ... Across tribal divides in Rwanda, even gifts can be malicious ... How social media algorithms control consciousness ... How peer “influencers” can make schools safer (and kinder) ...

How tribalism underpins the current political moment ... Has cosmopolitan London lost its character? ... Why a strong national identity could restore unity in the US ... Andrew: Dems should make economic inequality their centerpiece issue ... How Bob’s Mindful Resistance project confronts tribalistic thinking ...