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Trump + AI = ?
The case for hope. (Plus: graphs of the week)
Feb 14
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Robert Wright
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Agency, AI, and the MAGA Impulse (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:56 Recap: how MAGA's domestic and foreign policy fit together as one project 8:57 MAGA reframed as a response to a felt lack…
Feb 13
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Robert Wright
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Is the Singularity Near? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:04 Is Tim feeling the AI acceleration? 7:23 Claude Code: decrypted 13:30 Has AGI already arrived? 21:14 Moltbook: Skynet…
Feb 10
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Robert Wright
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The AI Tremors Are Real
Plus: America's tribal divides on ICE and China
Feb 7
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Robert Wright
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Trump's Big Gambles: Iran, China, and AI (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)
Listen now | 0:00 Army brats and media empires 1:28 Is war with Iran imminent? 4:12 Trump’s “red line” trap 10:00 Are we underestimating Iran? 18:28…
Feb 5
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Robert Wright
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The Meaning of Moltbook (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:09 How Bob’s and Paul’s names wound up in the Epstein Files 7:13 Epstein’s double option play 13:12 Power brokers after…
Feb 3
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Robert Wright
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January 2026
Good Trump-related News!
Plus: US-China arms-selling race; AI impact grows.
Jan 31
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Robert Wright
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The Grand Unified Theory of MAGA (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 MAGA as a coherent global phenomenon 8:46 Narrative vs. material forces behind MAGA 18:00 Mark Carney and the hypocrisy of the…
Jan 31
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Robert Wright
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The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender)
Listen now (71 mins) | 0:00 Teaser 0:59 Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con 5:05 Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum 10:27 What—and who—is AI actually…
Jan 27
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Robert Wright
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Which AI Titan should you root for?
Plus: Graph of the week and Quote of the week (with searing commentary)
Jan 24
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Robert Wright
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The Trump Foreign Policy Roller Coaster (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Listen now | 0:00 A recap of January’s Trump turbulence 4:52 Is Trump a cause or symptom of world disorder? 13:09 Is Trump increasingly unstable? 15:41…
Jan 23
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Robert Wright
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AI After Us: The "Succession" Scenario (Robert Wright & Dan Faggella)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:07 Defining AI succession 3:51 How positive psychology led Dan to AI research 11:20 Is Dan a “successionist”? 17:40 Does it…
Jan 20
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Robert Wright
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