BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

Why John’s books have never included an author photo ... On the inadequacy of the term ‘nonfiction’ ... The importance of a really good lede ... John’s simple cure for writer’s block ... Why John likes to challenge the reader’s vocabulary ...

How the process of elimination brought Buchananites to Trump ... Why GDP isn’t everything in America-first economics ... Where did non-interventionist Trump go? ... Scott: Without Bannon, there is no White House agenda ... President Trump: Inept, unprepared, but not stupid ...

Is Trump losing Congress? ... Why Trump voters have stayed loyal ... The Russia investigation: It ain't over 'til it's over ... Can Trump’s new chief of staff enforce order... ... …and does Trump even want order? ... Sarah on the true meaning of "Deep State" ...

Why Mickey still backs Trump ... Are Trump’s Russia links really a “nothing burger”? ... Backstabbing and scheming in the White House ... Trump's neocon drift ... Bob’s “mindful resistance” initiative ... How people can join the Mindful Resistance ... When anti-Trump outrage helps Trump ... What is Trumpism? ...

Brooke’s new book, The Trouble With Reality ... The erosion of the public square ... Orwell vs. Huxley: Whose dystopia are we living in? ... How people are wired for self-delusion ... Why liberals struggle to understand Trump voters ... Is the media unfair to Trump? ... Brooke’s theory of Trump ...

Comedy in the age of Trump ... Why Owen stopped writing his parody Trump tweets ... Is it pointless to mock Trump? ... Are liberal comedians hurting their cause? ... Twitter and partisan politics ... What it takes to become a podcasting juggernaut ... When breaking speech codes with comedy backfires ...

Why Darren was among the few academics who supported Trump ... Trump: Incipient interventionist? ... How identity politics transformed the meaning of “liberal” and “conservative” ... Darren’s “contempt” for elites ... Debating Trump’s travel ban ... Is Trump’s rhetoric dangerous? ... Assessing domestic policy under Trump so far ... Does Trump’s alleged incompetence and instability worry Darren? ...

How Freddie used the internet to become a public voice ... Does the “alt-left” exist? Is Freddie part of it? ... The cozy relationship between Democrats and Wall Street ... Why Freddie supports a universal basic income ... How liberals are getting the Trump-Russia story wrong ... IQ: Is it in the genes? ...

Is North Korea behind the global malware attack? ... The surprisingly long range of the missile North Korea just tested ... Why China won't solve the North Korea problem ... Options for dealing with North Korea, from bad to worst ... How Japan and South Korea are responding to escalating tensions ... Jeffrey’s advice on what to do about North Korea’s nuclear program ... The outlook for arms control under Trump ...

The Comey firing as confirmation of Trump’s disastrousness ... Was the Syria bombing politically calculated or just Trump being Trump? ... Trying to read Trump’s mind presupposes that he has one ... Did liberal dogmatism fuel the populist revolt? ... Could global governance moderate populist nationalism rather than fuel it? ... Why a universal basic income won’t work ...

WTF at the FBI ... The coming Comey blowback ... How Aryeh found peace of mind in the age of Trump ... How you can help Bloggingheads.tv (and why you should) ... Join Bob’s war on political polarization and the psychology of tribalism! ...

Why Kim Jong-un is unimpressed by U.S. attempts to intimidate ... What good are nuclear weapons if you can’t use them? ... Trump’s flashes of insight ... Rex Tillerson’s remarkable error rate ... The Trump administration’s dangerous stance on Iran ... When playing defense gets mistaken for offense ...

Dan's new book, The Ideas Industry ... Why thought leaders are prevailing over public intellectuals ... The new ecosystem of for-profit think tanks ... Asset bubbles in the marketplace of ideas ... A case study in thought leadership ... Improving the ideas industry ...

The inevitability of authoritarians ... Conor: Want to stop an authoritarian? Woo the conservatives. ... Is the U.S. addicted to neoconservatism? ... Failings of the Trump resistance ... How some on the left strengthen Trump ... The challenge of reporting on Trump ... Conor’s question for the Bloggingheads audience ...

Jared Kushner, the great and powerful ... Debating the morality of Trump’s “scare the immigrants” tactics ... The face-off between the Bannon and Kushner factions ... How Mickey would change Obamacare ... When Mickey and Tucker Carlson clashed over Fox News ... Bob had one hope for a Trump presidency—and now it’s gone ... Are the jackboots coming? ... When the anti-Trump movement strengthens Trump ...