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Tribalism and the Charlie Kirk Killing (Robert Wright & Glenn Loury)
Listen now | 0:00 How this conversation came to be 1:34 What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing 7:38 Who (or what) is driving our polarization…
Sep 16
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Robert Wright
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The Motives of the AI Moguls (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)
Listen now | 0:00 Has the pace of AI progress slowed? 12:01 How the tech CEOs are learning to stop worrying 14:14 Mark Zuckerberg 22:44 Sam Altman 29:59…
Sep 12
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Robert Wright
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After the Kirk Killing
Plus: South Park genius; AI vs. MAD; UN widely beloved! And more!
Sep 12
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Robert Wright
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Danny Fenster
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Trump’s Epstein Problem and His Authoritarian Slide (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:56 "Would Putin send a weird sexually suggestive birthday greeting to a famous affluent well-connected pedophile?" 6:23…
Sep 10
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Robert Wright
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The Week in China Freakouts
Plus: ICE agents outed; Michael McFaul squirms; Trump’s maritime mayhem; Low-tech immortality; and more!
Sep 5
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Robert Wright
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Danny Fenster
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Epstein, AI, and the Xi-Putin Path to Immortality (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 The Bob-Paul secret sauce—spilled! 3:25 Mickey Kaus's latest contribution to Epsteinology 13:04 Paul fact-checks Mickey, gets…
Sep 5
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Robert Wright
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Drugs and Mayhem in the US Special Forces (Robert Wright & Seth Harp)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:51 Seth’s new NYT bestseller, The Fort Bragg Cartel 2:58 What is Delta Force? 8:23 The growth of Delta Force's covert ops and…
Sep 2
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Robert Wright
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August 2025
Is Trump Becoming Putin? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 Bob welcomes Nikita back to the Nonzero team 6:19 WSJ's report on Trump's authoritarian drift 8:46 Three levers: streets, media…
Aug 29
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Robert Wright
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Nikita Petrov
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1:36:56
The MAGA Case Against AI Accelerationism (Robert Wright & Joe Allen)
Listen now | 0:00 Joe’s notable background 3:15 Is most of the MAGA coalition accelerationist? 7:28 Transhumanism, big tech, Klaus Schwab, and the…
Aug 26
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Robert Wright
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Trump's Failures in Israel and Ukraine | NonZero World feat. Robert Wright
Listen now | 0:00 Connor’s farewell 3:00 What’s next at NonZero 7:52 The looming invasion of Gaza City 11:00 Israel's one-state solution 15:57 Why did…
Aug 23
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Connor Echols
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Robert Wright
3
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1:13:43
Israel Lays Bare Its One-State Solution
Plus: Cracking the Trump code, America’s Caribbean escalation, ants on the loose, AI malaise, and more!
Aug 22
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Robert Wright
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Connor Echols
, and
Danny Fenster
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Feeling the GPT-5 (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 Bob defends the Unabomber (kind of) 2:41 Paul nurses his Mickey-inflicted wounds 15:31 Bob deflates the GPT-5 deflation 24:55 How big…
Aug 20
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Robert Wright
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