BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

Charlie Hebdo, racist imagery, and taboos ... Palestinians take their cause to the UN ... Will there be an American-Israeli quid pro quo on Iran? ... Bibi's Parisian faux pas ... Previewing the upcoming Israeli elections ... How the kosher market attack affects Israeli psychology ...

What's the point of the new atheism? ... Jeet: Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins fetishize religion ... Bob: Tribalism, not religion, is what drives conflict ... After 100 years(!), The New Republic hires a black senior editor ... On race, did Marty Peretz have a "broken heart"? ... Liberalism's two sides and TNR's long neocon phase ...

Jeet explains the cultural meaning of Charlie Hebdo ... France's tradition of caustic satiric cartoons ... Divergent French and American views of offensive speech ... Bob: Self-censorship is not censorship ... Jeet: Just describing the cartoons isn't enough ... Does Al Qaeda want the cartoons republished? ...

Hopes for 2015 ... Glenn fears increased racial division around policing ... Can anything be done to thwart unstable killers? ... Is an Iranian nuclear deal finally at hand? ... Bob: The enemy is hatred ... Imagining a transformation of American consciousness ...

Achenbach is AchenBACK! ... Was 2014 really that bad? ... Did North Korea really do the Sony hack? ... Unpredictable stories with unclear conclusions ... A big fear year: Ebola, ISIS, and more! ... The future, Interstellar, and the gooey cocoon scenario ...

The Cuba deal, and what Putin thinks of it ... Putin's got 99 problems and the ruble is one ... How Russia can cut its losses in eastern Ukraine ... Debating the origins of the Ukraine crisis ... Could Russia’s economic crisis prove contagious? ... Steve's book, Maximalist ...

Why tensions are so high in Jerusalem ... Danny: An "undivided Jerusalem" is a fantasy ... How the Temple Mount became a flashpoint ... What was the Palestinian who assaulted Danny thinking? ... Is it too late for a two-state solution? ... Danny answers questions from the audience ...

Journalistic malpractice at Rolling Stone ... Are RS's critics throwing the baby out with the bathwater? ... Not-so-fond memories of Stephen Glass ... The racial divide in mourning The New Republic ... Andrew Sullivan's controversial TNR editorship ... Karl Marx, and Citizen Kane, and problematic nostalgia ...

John: Why I just left The New Republic ... Can TNR make a profit? Should it? ... Trying to find an optimistic scenario for TNR ... TNR's shifting identity over the years ... Bob's cynical take on the magazine's past ... Cute cat photos + serious writing = profit + influence(?) ...

Obama and our age of uncertainty ... The disheartening non-zero-sumness of extremism ... Technological reasons for DC dysfunction ... Is Jeb Bush's foreign policy like his brother's, or his father's? ... How Hillary's gender could become a problem for liberals ... Was the Ferguson grand jury rigged? ...

Richard: China is on the verge of an economic crisis ... Could panic bring a Chinese crash to the US? ... How China's GDP growth makes things worse ... What being a banker taught Richard about crashes ... A brief history of the co-branded credit card ... Aliens, alienation, and the future ...

Law professor Ann says Obama is acting like a law professor ... Bob: Obama, like Bush, misunderstands terrorism ... Is Obama exaggerating the ISIS threat? If so, why? ... The "latte salute," the military salute, and the Hitler salute ... The real problem with Obama's golf game ... Is football getting a bad rap? ...

The story behind the (well-intentioned!) invention of the pop-up ad ... Why Internet advertising is a broken system ... The insidious symbiosis of advertising and surveillance ... Would you pay for privacy? An alternative online revenue model ... Content creators of the world, unite! ... There may be hope for micropayments ...

What really caused the financial crisis of ’08? Richard’s new book explains ... How could the crisis have been avoided? ... Richard’s post-crisis instructions: Give borrowers a break! ... What we should have done with Lehman Brothers ... Is China a ticking time bomb? ... Urgent! Richard says we should start restructuring debt today ...

"Putting Palestinians on a diet" in Gaza ... What do Palestinians want from the cease-fire negotiations? ... The causes of the latest Israel-Gaza war ... How much should we care about the Hamas charter? ... Yousef and Sean Hannity debate the T word ... Fatah-Hamas reconciliation—Bibi’s worst nightmare? ...