The Wright Show

Two podcasters, three definitions of neoliberalism ... What rules the ruling class? ... Phil Mickelson’s record-breaking PGA win ... Mickey: The Epstein guard verdict bodes ill for Ghislaine ... Is the left starting to worry about rising crime rates? ... You attend one Nazi sex party … ... Bob: What Belarus did was wrong, but what about … ... Parrot Room preview: UFOs, a Wuhan-stravaganza, cable news ratings, Hunter Biden, a Times reporter calls the lab leak theory racist, a trans track controversy, more Gates, etc. ...

Defining effective altruism ... Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’ ... Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change? ... The Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How cognitive biases fuel tribalism ... Bob: We need a psychological revolution ... Are external threats the best way to bring people together? ... The balance between surveillance and public safety ... Bob: Let's retire the word 'apologist' ... Making rationality cool ... Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in "The Moral Animal" ...

Mickey voices concerns over Ford’s new electric truck ... Is Bitcoin worth the cost? ... Bob and Mickey manage to politicize cicadas ... The AP’s dismissal of a young journalist ... Bob: The Gaza conflict seems to have unified Palestinians ... Mickey: Republicans will get squeezed by Trump and the abortion issue ... The looming threat of inflation ... Do we need a 1/6 commission? ... Parrot Room preview: The Gatesgate plot thickens, a McKay Coppins beef, Mickey and Bob’s Slow Burn bonus content surfaces, UFOs, Charles Grodin, cancellation at Basecamp, A Face in the Crowd concluded, and a Jonathan Chait tweet ...

Covid and inequities between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis ... The aftereffects of the conflict ... Will the conflict benefit Netanyahu? ... The shift in American opinion on Israel-Palestine ... Biden and Bibi ... How Israelis view the world’s view of Israel ...

The symbolic power of Sheikh Jarrah ... Fadi: Palestinians are more united than they have been in years ... The case for a rights-based approach to the conflict ... Will a majority of Israeli Jews ever support a one-state solution? ... How Palestinians view Hamas today ... The resilience of Palestinian national identity ... Overcoming fear ...

Like a mask to a flame ... The latest episode in the Israel-Palestine conflict ... Can Liz Cheney make the GOP a safe space for hawks? ... Trump’s continuing influence over Republican politics ... Mickey: Biden will pull an about-face on immigration ... Bob: We should be talking about a one-state solution ... Goodbye Gates matrimony, hello Wright parsimony ... Bob mocks microwave weapon story, thus inviting microwave weapon attack ... Will Biden choose bipartisanship over progressivism? ... Parrot Room preview: Mickey’s next visual gag, a mild critique of Slow Burn, A Face in the Crowd, Bob Dylan trivia, and to sell ads or not to sell ads ...

Josh tries to help Bob retool his meditation practice ... Identifying the purpose of your practice ... What to do when your mind wanders ... Tuning your mind ... The Four Rs ... Can mindfulness help us bolster our courage? ... Learning to tolerate blowback from your tribe ... Suffering and the psychology of tribalism ... Developing a non-zero-sum relationship with your own mind ... So you say you've been called a neofascist... ...

Mickey sports an unsettling new look ... The Trumpist revolt against Liz Cheney ... Tucker Carlson damages his brand ... Where will babies come from? ... Bob: Trump is responsible for our failure to reach herd immunity ... Who’s at fault in the Gates divorce, Jeffrey Epstein or Clippy? ... The Justice Department indicts the Minneapolis cops ... Bob lauds Biden for waiving vaccine patents ... More evidence for the “lab leak” COVID theory ... Parrot Room preview: the menace of Menendez, Bidenomics, Twitter’s tip jar, Mickey’s psychoanalysis progresses (or at least continues), The Sleepwalkers, Woke Disneyland, Zuckerberg’s moral compass, Bob worries about millennials, and Mickey continues to gaslight Bob about the hair ...

The value of defying your tribe ... Egocentric bias and attribution error ... The thin line between between courage and acting like an asshole ... Why do we punish people for unintentional transgressions? ... To understand all is to forgive all … ... … but forgiveness won’t get you retweets ... Are people’s politics as irrational as they seem? ... William James’ preternatural insight into human psychology ... Should the Philip Roth biography have been pulled? ... Reliving the worst day of your life ...

Biden’s $10 trillion Chevy Malibu ... How much of Biden’s agenda will actually get through Congress? ... Bob frowns on Biden’s nationalistic framing ... Tucker Carlson’s bizarre mask rant ... The Chauvin conviction’s deterrent value ... Human Rights Watch declares Israel an apartheid state ... Is there a Biden doctrine? ... Parrot Room preview: Bob continues to psychoanalyze Mickey, the first episode of Slow Burn, Rudy, Rudin, the Oscars, justice and utilitarianism, Mickey has a run in with the cops, Kerry and Iran, and Mickey’s theory of West L.A. ...

John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity ... John’s early religious sensibility ... The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism ... Grappling with the human predicament ... Approaches to ultimate reality ... John’s brush with non-dualistic experience ... Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist ... Touching the infinite elephant ...

Mickey’s road trip report ... The underclass takes to the airwaves ... Sympathy for a Chauvin trial alternate juror ... The regrettable melodrama of post-trial takes ... Was the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting justified? ... The subtle editorializing in the NYTs reportorial prose ... Is Biden’s use of race to frame policy appealing to people of color? ... The Ukraine lobby’s unfortunate influence ... Parrot Room preview: Revisiting LeBron’s worst decision, a jury duty confession, Bob puts Mickey on the couch, immigration, and child allowances ...

Barbara bets that the Iran nuclear deal will be revived ... Hawkish Dems and Biden's slow start on Iran ... Does Iran pose an existential threat to Israel? ... Barbara: A comprehensive deal isn't happening anytime soon ... Iran’s strategic patience ... Do Iranian elections matter? ... Does the regime care about public opinion? ... Biden’s goals in the Middle East ...

Mickey teases a tantalizing reconciliation rumor ... Biden backs off campaign promise to raise refugee cap ... Bob worries that there’s a loophole in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal ... Rising Russia-U.S. tensions ... Should we pledge to defend Taiwan? ... Mickey: Corporate political activism is an alarming anti-democratic trend ... Bob scolds the Washington Post ... Israel’s attack on Iran and on American diplomacy ... J.D. Vance’s senatorial ambitions ... Parrot Room preview: Bob’s genius point about Israel and identity politics, more Jeffrey Goldberg trash talk, how Dominion Voting Systems is helping Fox, Naomi Wolfe and Steve Bannon form an unholy alliance ...

Alex’s new book, Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home ... Kurt Wolff’s fugitive life as a literary subversive ... Alex’s father’s experience fighting for Germany in WWII ... The complementary war recollections of Alex’s and Bob’s fathers ... Helen and Kurt Wolff’s founding of, and exit from, Pantheon Books ... The expansive life and fitting death of Kurt Wolff ... A father’s flight from the past, a son’s revisitation ... Did the German bourgeoisie’s devotion to aesthetic experience blind them to their moral responsibilities? ... Endpapers as objet d’art ...