Archive - NonZero Newsletter

A Journey Into the New Cold War | NonZero World feat. Neysun Mahboubi

Listen now | 0:00 Why Neysun brings American students and scholars to China 2:40 Visiting China after Covid 4:52 Balancing US and Chinese red lines…

Jul 12 •

1:01:21

Threat Inflation Bingo

Plus: Verbose hackers, Israel’s “emigration plan,” space conflicts, Trump v. the courts (international edition), and more!

Jul 11 •

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Golden Oldie: Obama, Trump, and Tribalism (Robert Wright & Greg Gutfeld)

Listen now | Original title: The Gutfeld Divalog

Jul 10 •

1:02:39

Golden Oldie: What is consciousness for? (Robert Wright & David Chalmers)

Listen now | 0:00 Why consciousness is so weird 9:40 Is consciousness like your brain’s shadow? 17:21 If David was a zombie, would anyone know? 21:32…

Jul 8 •

1:08:59

International law is dying. We’ll miss it when it’s gone.

Welcome to the jungle.

Jul 7 •

Is diplomacy with Iran dead? | NonZero World feat. Alan Eyre

Listen now | 0:00 Are US-Iran talks dead? 3:58 Do normal Iranians care about the nuclear program? 6:14 Understanding Iran’s enrichment red line 9:16…

Jul 4 •

1:00:31

Golden Oldie: Russia Hawks and China Hawks (Robert Wright & John Mearsheimer)

Listen now | 0:00 A brief message from Bob 1:40 John’s upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy 4:31 Is the US to blame for…

Jul 3 •

1:42:42

Golden Oldie: Iran, Hamas, and the China Problem (Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama)

Listen now | 0:00 A brief message from Bob 1:53 Why neocons like enemies 19:09 How to use power deftly 25:59 Is a nuclear Iran really all that scary…

Jul 1 •

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June 2025

How America's 'System' Shuts Down Dissent | NonZero World feat. Barry Eisler

Listen now | 0:00 Barry’s new novel, ‘The System’ 2:09 CIA lessons & seeing like a Martian 6:53 Fiction, empathy, and geopolitics 9:31 No cartoon…

Jun 28 •

1:05:15

The Truth about Sam Altman (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:36 The dueling Sam Altman biographies 4:44 Who is the real Sam Altman? 16:14 OpenAI’s origin—did Sam scam Elon? 20:57 Why the…

Jun 26 •

1:25:06

The Eternal Causes of War (Robert Wright, Alex Jordan, and Courtney Rawlings)

Listen now | 0:00 Courtney’s and Alex’s Always at War podcast 2:30 Have restrainers given up on Trump? 10:46 The legacies of Hamilton Jordan 16:07…

Jun 24 •

1:26:23

Is Israel dragging the US to disaster in Iran? | NonZero World feat. Robert Wright

Listen now | 0:00 Headlines 1:01 - Washington 1:41 - Silicon Valley 2:20 - China 3:04 - Africa 3:43 - Europe 4:34 Bob joins to discuss the Israel-Iran…

Jun 21 •

1:06:02

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