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The Perils of a New Cold War | NonZero World feat. Van Jackson
Listen now | 0:00 Van's new book, The Rivalry Peril 2:04 What policymakers forget about the first Cold War 12:30 The roots of the US-China cold war…
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Connor Echols
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1:01:12
AI Accelerationism Goes Global
Plus: EVs unplugged, Canada First, planetary defenses, Gaza ceasefire strain, Palantir’s influence game, the roots of outrage, and more!
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Robert Wright
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Connor Echols
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Canada vs Trump, OpenAI vs Google (and Musk) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 The newly united state of Canada 8:57 What’s Elon’s endgame? 17:08 Ross Douthat gives doubting Paul pause 22:32 Which AI ad won the…
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Robert Wright
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1:32:02
Reasons to Calm Down about China
Reason #1: America's history of threat inflation
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Robert Wright
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Why Wokeness Failed (Robert Wright & Musa al-Gharbi)
Listen now | 0:00 Musa’s track record as Trump-reader and his new book, We Have Never Been Woke 1:55 The reason Trump won—twice 14:25 Messaging that…
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Robert Wright
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1:42:35
Trump's Shock-and-Awe: Madness or Method? | NonZero World Feat. Robert Wright
Listen now | 0:00 Housekeeping 3:12 Making sense of the USAID cuts 15:44 Trump's push for ethnic cleansing in Gaza 24:19 How Trump's tariffs undermine…
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Robert Wright
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1:06:08
What Trump gets wrong about US power
Plus: Brain spoons, super horses, climate spending woes, AI safety woes, a “transformative moment” for the Middle East, and more!
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Connor Echols
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The Truth About DeepSeek (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)
Listen now | 0:00 Paul’s new newsletter, AIStackDecrypted 2:09 Sketchy DeepSeek narratives: debunked 14:51 How connected are DeepSeek and the Chinese…
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Robert Wright
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1:29:21
Reminder: Zoom Q&A Tonight
Making sense of the first three weeks of Trump 2.0
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Robert Wright
Trump vs International Law (Robert Wright & Mark Leon Goldberg)
Listen now | 0:00 Mark’s newsletter, podcast, and Bloggingheads roots 3:21 Is Trump really anti-internationalist? 8:06 Who was the most pro-UN…
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Robert Wright
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