The Wright Show
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Description
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
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CleanThe Mueller Report and the Barr Memo (Robert Wright & Marcy Wheeler) | Why didn’t the Mueller report call for any indictments? ... What came of the information Marcy passed to the FBI? ... What is Manafort still lying about? ... Why Barr’s handling of this has been “so outrageous” ... Should Trump now fear prosecutors in New York? ... What does Mueller want Congress to do? ... Marcy: Russiagate skeptics are arguing "in bad faith" ... | 3/27/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Victory Lap for Russiagate Skeptics (Robert Wright & Aaron Maté) | Why Aaron was skeptical of Russiagate from the start ... Aaron: Russiagate was a trojan horse for a new Cold War agenda ... How much does Barr’s letter really tell us about the Mueller Report ... Why did Mueller punt on the question of obstruction of justice? ... Are Russiagate skeptics celebrating too much? ... | 3/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNaila and the Uprising (Robert Wright & Julia Bacha) | Julia’s documentary on women in the First Intifada, Naila and the Uprising ... How 9/11 changed Julia’s career path when she was a student at Columbia ... Naila’s story of early trauma and political organizing ... How women quietly moved to the forefront of the Palestinian resistance ... Julia: The Oslo accords were a bad deal for the Palestinian people ... Two-state solution or one-state solution? ... Julia sees hope in the new generation of Palestinian activists ... | 3/20/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHomebrewed Christianity (Robert Wright & Tripp Fuller) | What does Christianity have in common with Pabst Blue Ribbon? ... Young Bob and young Tripp's critical readings of the Bible ... Tripp: Human dignity doesn’t fit into a reductive materialist worldview ... Do all Christians believe in divine intervention? ... Could a deistic God have created Jesus? ... Spiritual practices for the overly judgmental (pretty much everyone) ... Tripp’s culture shock upon returning to North Carolina ... Paul Tillich and the dialogue between culture and faith ... Tripp: Oprah is the spiritual leader of the one percent ... | 3/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Talk About Israel (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas) | How Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments were received across the Jewish community ... Is AIPAC really “all about the Benjamins”? ... Ron: Jews are criticizing Rep. Omar in good faith ... Memory of the Holocaust is fading, and older Jews are concerned ... Ron: Omar has mainly been an asset to her party ... Why wasn’t Jeanine Pirro fired from Fox News? ... ls the speech code regarding Israel getting looser? ... The Israeli take on Trump ... | 3/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPre-Rapture Edition (Robert Wright & Conor Friedersdorf) | Immigration lessons from California ... Why Black Lives Matter should take a second look at Bernie ... Bob worries the Dems will tear themselves apart ... What should Bernie say about immigration? ... How to cover controversies when social media makes everyone stupid ... The real meaning of the Covington kid's "smirk" ... The problems with "post-Rapture" Twitter ... Conor’s least favorite Democratic candidate ... | 3/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGene Editing: The Future is Here (Robert Wright & Jason Pontin) | Jason’s tenure as editor of MIT’s Technology Review ... Jason says he never, ever feels offended ... Why Jason’s investment firm didn’t back a new gene editing technology ... Is current gene-editing technology a “moral and therapeutic dead end”? ... How to regulate a future designer baby business ... What makes CRISPR gene-editing technology revolutionary? ... 3D-printing and the future of gun control ... Will mind-reading technology kill romantic love? ... The theoretical limits of "thought identification" technology ... | 3/1/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA New Progressive Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Samuel Moyn) | Is Bernie Sanders the standard bearer for a new progressive foreign policy? ... American warfare today: drones and special forces—lots of them ... Sam: "The UN was founded for the sake of peace, not justice" ... Sam critiques the "responsibility to protect" doctrine ... Disentangling poverty and inequality ... Is a global welfare state possible? ... Using economic nationalism to transcend economic nationalism ... The weird ways that Trump is a very truthful president ... Sam's book, Not Enough ... | 2/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump’s Plan for Regime Change in Venezuela (Robert Wright & Max Blumenthal) | Max’s on-the-ground observations at political rallies in Caracas ... A brief history of Venezuelan politics, from Chavez to now ... Who’s responsible for the suffering of the Venezuelan people? ... Why didn’t AOC defend her colleague Ilhan Omar against charges of anti-Semitism? ... How Obama’s sanctions paved the way for Trump’s broader economic assault on Venezuela ... Max explains why Maduro turned down a US offer of food aid ... How Juan Guaidó was selected to lead the opposition, and by whom ... What happens if the regime doesn’t change? ... | 2/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs There a Progressive Foreign Policy? (Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt) | Competing conceptions of a progressive foreign policy ... The shift from formal to informal international law ... Was bombing Kosovo a good idea? ... Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria—why do we treat their leaders so differently? ... The foreign policy visions of Warren and Sanders ... Heather's progressive foreign policy starts at home ... Venezuela and American hypocrisy ... | 2/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTeam Human (Robert Wright & Douglas Rushkoff) | Douglas's new book, Team Human ... Remembering when people behaved better online than IRL ... Douglas was optimistic about the Internet. Then came capitalism. ... Imagining a better Facebook ... Douglas: "Being human is a team sport" ... Tribalism and the Internet ... The false promise of "disruption" ... How capitalism complicates Douglas’s life ... | 2/8/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Center Can Hold (Robert Wright & Will Wilkinson) | The much-discussed report Will co-authored, “The Center Can Hold” ... Why Will likes Elizabeth Warren ... The criminal justice system is even worse than you think ... Why Will is skeptical of Kamala Harris ... What population density tells us about America’s political divide ... Why do some people, and not others, move to the city? ... Personality differences between rural and urban dwellers ... Has gerrymandering run its course in Republican strategy? ... | 2/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanQuestioning Materialism (Robert Wright & Gideon Rosen) | What's the philosophical status of materialism? ... Gideon’s views about math lead him to reject materialism ... Does the existence of consciousness disprove materialism? ... Taking the simulation hypothesis seriously ... How lucky are we to be alive right now? ... Teleology and moral realism ... | 2/1/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSocialism Enters the Mainstream (Robert Wright & Nathan Robinson) | Why Nathan’s magazine, Current Affairs, is based in New Orleans ... Why is socialism suddenly cool? And what exactly does it mean? ... Why Nathan identifies as a libertarian socialist ... Is “Social Justice Warrior” a straw man? ... Nathan: “Cultural appropriation” is about power disparity, not cultural purity ... Glenn Greenwald joins the “microaggressions” argument ... Nathan: Empathy can be an antidote to tribalistic politics ... The future of leftist foreign policy ... | 1/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Psychology of Great Movies (Robert Wright & Lindsay Doran) | Lindsay, a Golden Globe–winning movie producer, discusses the Academy Awards ... Lindsay's experience working on This Is Spinal Tap ... The psychology of a great film ending ... Why there's no sequel to When Harry Met Sally ... Art vs. craft in screenwriting ... Should movies be moral? ... Is a male conscience different from a female conscience? ... A film that sounds like it's great vs. one that actually is ... | 1/21/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPostmodernism and Religion (Robert Wright & John D. Caputo) | John, a theologian and philosopher, explains postmodern Christianity ... Why postmodernism is not "linguistic idealism" ... Religion's tendency to literalize ... What Paul Tillich and Jacques Derrida thought about "the unconditional" ... John: The Scriptures present a poetic, topsy-turvy vision of life ... Where do our aspirations come from (if anywhere)? ... Have art, literature, and social activism replaced religion? ... Is there a link between the unconditional and Buddhism's "unconditioned"? ... | 1/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCould Evolution Be Conscious? (Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci) | Could evolution be conscious? ... Teleology vs. teleonomy ... A purposeful universe is possible, sure—but is it likely? ... The trouble with Stephen Jay Gould’s views on the evolution of complexity ... It’s “like something” to be an individual human. Could it be like something to be a society? ... The news from epigenetics: Heredity works in weirder ways than we knew ... | 1/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSelf-actualization and the "Dark Triad" (Robert Wright & Scott Barry Kaufman) | What is the “G” factor in human intelligence? ... Fortunately for Scott and Bob, intelligence is about more than mentally rotating 3D objects ... What Psych 101 classes get wrong about Abraham Maslow’s “self-actualization” ... Is there a right way to self-actualize? ... What is personality? ... How self-actualized is Bob? He took Scott’s test to find out. ... The “Dark Triad” (and why we need a little darkness) ... Gender differences in narcissism ... | 12/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpirituality East and West (Robert Wright & Michael Holleran) | Father Michael's 22 years as a Carthusian Monk ... The contemplative tradition in Christianity ... How Zen captivated Father Michael ... Do Buddhist and Hindu mystics experience the same thing? ... Zen's influence on Father Michael’s theology ... God, creation, and evolution ... What insights does Christianity add to Buddhism? ... Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's influence on Father Michael ... | 12/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Robert Wright & Sabine Hossenfelder) | Sabine's new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray ... Sabine: There’s no reason to think the four fundamental forces can be unified ... What "beauty" means to a physicist ... The weirdness of the Higgs Boson ... Must there be an explanation for the fundamental forces? ... Sabine: Multiverse theory isn't science ... What Sabine wants physicists to be doing instead of chasing beauty ... | 11/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
fantastic content
love the content here - not a ton of podcasts I know that cover the philosophical/political ground that the wright show does . . .
Great content could use some polish
Topics are thought provoking but the style of discussion is a bit unstructured and off the cuff.
The audio pretty awful, changing volume constantly, mainly for Mr Wright. Please fix
Horrible Frigging Sound
Love Bob Wright, love the guests. Absolutely CANNOT listen to the show.
The audio is so embarrassingly bad, I can’t understand who can listen to these stimulating discussions for more than five minutes. PLEASE FIX THE AUDIO!!!
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