Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
When Clinton’s teleprompter failed. Did Tony Blinken get us into trouble in Syria? Why Bob doesn’t get a haircut. What’s so hot about a cold open? Bob vs Mearsheimer—it’s getting nuanced. Have they found the Lab Leak’s fingerprint?—and why it’s an argument against a cold war with China. Can the GOP really do anything about inflation? Actually, yes. Blake Masters, normie. Crime and neighborhood surveillance. The great border drone scam. Commenter fixes Mickey up. Never go Full Meacham. Is immigration really the number three issue? Meacham’s weird populism. Would midterm GOP defeat hurt Trump or help him? ‘Biden should build the wall’—brilliant idea or absurd idea? Who pulls the strings at the Council on Foreign Relations? Why do gooders don’t fund peace. If Trump were a Ukraine hawk would Dems be doves? Why did Tucker flip on covid? Mickey’s special angle on Kanye’s antics. Should Twitter be owned and run by the government? Bob says the good old days of free speech weren’t good old days. Walter Kirn’s grand (conspiracy) theory of today’s culture. Micky and Bob agree: writing, at least, has gone all to hell. The unspoken reason why that LA City Council tape set people off. Commenter (persuasively) defends 95 percent reasonable doubt threshold. It’s Bannon time!—four months’ worth (Mickey blames Jared). Drop box harassment in Arizona. Will Biden investigate Musk?—and isn’t that what Putin would do? Is there nobody who’s just misguided? Joke’s on you—Bob and Mickey apologize for lack of mirth.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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