BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

What the media is missing about the violence in Israel ... Where the future of Palestine is being built ... Violence grabs attention—but at what cost? ... Giving up on the two-state solution ... Why West Bank Palestinians don't demand the right to vote in Israeli elections ... Fadi: Non-violence will bring the Israeli occupation down ...

The Israel lobby and the Iran nuclear deal ... Does AIPAC really want to win the fight against the Iran deal? ... What some deal opponents fear more than Iran getting nukes ... How do we deal with the Islamic State if it sticks around? ... The case for patient containment of ISIS (and taking a chill pill) ... The incoherence of US policy toward the Islamic State ...

David: Iran outplayed the US on the nuclear deal ... Bob: You can always wish for a better deal ... If we had walked away, would sanctions have unraveled? ... Debating the stringency of the inspections regime ... David: Iran is a unique rogue state ... Bob: Are Iran’s violations of internal law worse than America’s? ...

An Iran deal within sight ... The phony "arms embargo" issue ... Will Iran permit inspection of its military bases? ... The delicate timing of sanctions relief ... America's trump card: the almighty dollar ... International law and nuclear weapons ...

Comparing the Rachel Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner stories ... Is "interrogating whiteness" a good way to fight racism? ... Flipping white privilege towards moral imagination ... Persuasion vs. shaming as tools of social change ... Should the government be able to scan your brain? ... Does Google make Americans more accepting of the NSA? ...

A flurry of Title IX complaints in l'affaire Laura Kipnis ... Shifting mores around student-professor romances ... How much rape is there on campus? ... Should colleges discipline students for "ungentlemanly conduct"? ... Hookup culture and its discontents ... The quandary of drunk-on-drunk hookups ...

A brief history of neoconservatives ... Walking the Sunni-Shia tightrope ... Preparing for a US deal with Iran ... How much of a threat to Israel does Iran pose? ... Is Obama’s foreign policy naïve? ... The kind of Iran deal to expect ...

Is David Letterman a nihilist? Or just Midwestern? ... Why Rubio wouldn't have a lock on the Hispanic vote ... Will Bill drag Hill down? ... Bob: We've played right into ISIS's recruiting narrative ... Did Obama bungle Iraq and Syria? ... Ann and Bob debate the merits of Twitter ...

Peter's new book, The Most Good You Can Do ... New museum wings, and other misguided philanthropy ... Working on Wall Street in order to give your money away ... How to be an efficient altruist ... What about charities that do good but unquantifiable work? ... Good news! Doing good makes you feel good ...

Did Charlie Hebdo deserve an award from PEN? ... Pamela Geller and the key distinction in the free speech debate ... Why Glenn ran anti-Semitic cartoons after the Charlie attack ... Iraq was a disaster. How did the neocons come back? ... Attacking the establishment without being marginalized ... Why the 2016 campaign might be good for civil liberties ...

Why Mickey quit The Daily Caller ... The innovative format of the new kausfiles ... How Walker outflanked Cruz on immigration ... Mickey picks the GOP contenders he hates the most ... Are the Baltimore riots linked to immigration? ... Hillary Clinton as an "amorphous blob" ...

Why the neoconservatives never really went away ... Who’s the neoconiest GOP presidential candidate? ... In Yemen, do we have a realist strategy or no strategy? ... Jacob: We need rapprochement with Iran ... Defining the realist worldview ... A realist approach to ISIS and Syria ...

In Iraq, America is frenemies with Iran-backed Shiite militias ... Is there a smarter way to fight ISIS? ... How big of a security threat is Iran to the US? ... Eli is more worried than Bob about Iran getting nukes ... Bob and Eli relitigate a war or two for old times’ sake ... Will the burning of the Jordanian pilot backfire on ISIS? ...

Does Serial signal the end of the old-school podcast? ... Narrative manipulation in fiction and non-fiction (e.g. Serial) ... Is Koenig concealing what she really thinks? ... Bob: Adnan did it ... Aryeh argues that a third party was involved ... Debating what Adnan's behavior at Cathy's proves ...

Deflategate, Bridgegate, catchgate ... Was LBJ a bad person? ... Troubling historical inaccuracies in Hollywood films ... Ann says Scott Walker is presidential material ... Is being a Midwesterner a political asset? ... Serial and the meaning of "reasonable doubt" ...