“Good people on both sides”: Glenn Loury and Bret Weinstein discuss Trump’s knack for baiting the left into opposing regular peoples’ “common sense” beliefs.
https://youtu.be/Ze5ULSMh3ZY?t=2567
The double-edged sword of looking at bodies on Instagram: Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Amanda Mull, author of the recent essay "Body Positivity Is a Scam," about how the social network can shape one's self-image. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Critiquing media coverage of Israel/Palestine: Omar Baddar of the Arab American Institute outlines which media outlets do a good job at illuminating the Palestinian perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Milquetoast partisanship on North Korea: @billscher and @mattklewis make sense of partisan reactions to Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un.
https://youtu.be/5gSVANpNaTQ?t=379
Why haven’t we heard from any space aliens? Adam Frank, author of the new book "Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth," speculates that climate change may be the "great filter" that stops extraterrestrial civilizations from reaching maturity. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
What is the “black experience”? Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss whether John's upbringing disqualifies him from speaking on blackness in America.
https://youtu.be/SgZ88kdMF0M?t=1558
Jews vs. Muslims or Jews vs. Arabs? Robert Wright speaks with Wajahat Ali, who wrote a controversial Atlantic article on visiting the West Bank, about how the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is framed. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Pardonpalooza: Bill Scher and Matt Lewis analyze Trump's criminal pardons, including a rumored pardon for disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
How David Letterman normalized Donald Trump: Jason Zinoman, author of the biography "Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night," reviewed all of Trump's appearances on Letterman's shows over the past 30 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Why is the US helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen? Shireen Al-Adeimi, an activist who was born in Yemen, offers an answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Who would you fire? Bill Scher and Matt Lewis review the latest media controversies around Roseanne Barr, Samantha Bee, et al.
https://youtu.be/-Rl7NCWJaHU?t=1686
Philip Roth and women: Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Phoebe Maltz-Bovy evaluate the criticism that Roth only wrote stereotypical or one-dimensional female characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Russia’s Keystone cops: Bloggingheads.tv’s own Nikita Petrov describes his briefly successful attempt to escape a paddy wagon after an anti-Putin protest.
https://youtu.be/9hfwcJv0Fh8?t=754
Pre-litigating 2020: Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss what the Democratic midterm primaries portend for the presidential primary race around the corner.
https://youtu.be/lmH1WcAdqjg?t=2166
Dismantling the boys’ club: Glenn Loury and Penn Law professor Amy Wax argue whether gendered office politics are relevant to women’s career paths today.
https://youtu.be/HOsrBF5qwBc?t=1563
Is woke broke? Robert Wright and Michael Brooks discuss whether politically correct politics doomed the Democrats in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
