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0:00 Is NonZero or American Prestige the better podcast? AI weighs in
4:14 The state of the US-Iran war. Or is it peace?
17:52 Has Trump already lost the midterms? Does he care?
24:16 The Russia-Ukraine war (and Eric Schmidt)
29:23 What the latest Iran war strikes signal
31:04 Overtime preview: Nuland’s “monsters,” zombie blobsters, Barak Ravid, Bari Weiss, “killzones,” and the Pope vs AI
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded May 28, 2026.
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Overtime titles:
Victoria Nuland’s "monster" theory of diplomacy.
Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken: zombie blobsters?
The Barak Ravid controversy.
Did technology balkanize America? Or did capitalism?
What's Bari Weiss's CBS reign really about?
Danny’s vision of the multipolar(-ish) world-to-come.
The Pope vs AI.
“Killzones” and the future of war.
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