Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Wright

Teaser ... What is Bob doing in Qatar? ... "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Why Yeats felt this way ... Peter Thiel's Antichrist theory ... Nikita: COVID was a weird time, and nothing has been the same since ... Why Bob feels things are falling apart ... Were things ever in order? ... "Inner emigration": tuning out the world as self-care ... A reaction to a drone strike: "Loud noises don't wake me up" ... Young people are turning away from social media ... When Spain lost all power and cellular coverage ... War as a "major inconvenience" ... Bob's prediction about Ukraine's future retaliation for Pokrovsk ... Nikita's impressions from Europe ... Nonzero Reading Club THIS SATURDAY: Norbert Wiener's God & Golem, Inc. ... Deepfakes and the future of news ... Russia's first humanoid robot falls down ...

Teaser ... Shadi's path to his new book, The Case for American Power ... George W. Bush's “Freedom Agenda” ... Does America's role in Gaza undermine Shadi's case? ... Shadi's case for US moral supremacy ... What does China want? ... What justifies military intervention? ... Bob: International law is the answer ... Heading to Overtime ...

01:00 I don't want to talk about Nick Fuentes, but I accept the reality that we live in the Age of Fuentes. 05:00 Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson Sabotages America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164772 07:00 Death By Lightning Is The Latest Example of Hollywood's ‘Magic Negro' Archetype, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164743 36:00 Dennis Prager – The Modern Jeremiah, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164813 42:15 The Great Feminization, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164727 46:00 What's my genre? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164802 53:20 Defending the Pacific: George Friedman on Australia, Japan, and the Coalition Against China, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164713 55:40 Tucker Carlson – Hilarious Demagogue, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164797 63:00 Megyn Kelly challenges Tucker 68:00 LAT: Trump adds new reasons to deny visas to immigrants: obesity and other health issues, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164793 77:00 The Stress Reward Cocktail For Edgy Streamers Like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Richard Spencer, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164770 90:00 How Do The Trad Monotheisms Respond The Fuentes Era?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164766 1:42:45 Jews & Protestants Tend To Be Techno-Optimists While Catholics Not So Much, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164759 1:49:00 The conservative case for federal AI regulation to stop blue states regulating tech, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uYEPfiBMAE 1:59:02 Aaron Renn's Protestant techno-optimism 2:02:00 Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus on The Tucker Carlson Interview With Nick Fuentes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCX8BmOHOA 2:09:40 WEHT to the blogosphere? 2:14:00 Who knew podcasts would take off? 2:26:00 Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War - Alec Ryrie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DDBMookVY 3:06:30 Trump the World Tariff Traveler, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSFHz8cMAhM 3:25:00 The Psychology of Forgiveness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlo26PwfcLY 3:32:00 They Want You to Ignore the Biden Scandal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8bVC9tAEk 3:44:40 The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164703 3:47:00 The False Promise of Emotional Sobriety, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=164564 4:13:00 Reputation: What It Is and Why It Matters, https://www.amazon.com/Reputation-What-Matters-Gloria-Origgi/dp/0691175357

BYU guards Robert Wright III and Dawson Baker addressed the media Saturday night after the #8 BYU Cougars beat Holy Cross 98-53.

This week in underappreciated world history ... Were the elections all—or just mostly—bad news for Trump? ... Will Trump invade Venezuela? ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump ... What's the shutdown fight really about? ... Mickey vs Ezra Klein (in absentia) on healthcare ... Back down the Epstein rabbit hole ... Was Tucker playing 4D chess with the Fuentes interview? ... What happened to the blogosphere? ... The case for (and against) Bari Weiss ... AI doom in fiction vs reality ... The AI bubble: Dot-com déjà vu? ... AOC in 2028? ... Mickey: Beware of gym girls! ...

The Carlson-Fuentes interview controversy ... Paul: Candidate Carlson is coming ... Is gatekeeping dead? ... Is Carlson's show respectable? ... Carlson and Fuentes on the Israel lobby ... William F. Buckley as MAGA precursor ... Is antisemitism more organic on the right or left? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Hour one of DJ & PK for November 4, 2025: Tanner Wall, BYU Football Kalani Sitake's Weekly Press Conference and BYU Basketball Postgame Utah Jazz beat the Boston Celtics

BYU men's basketball coach Kevin Young was joined by AJ Dybantsa and Robert Wright III as they recapped the No. 8 BYU Cougars' 71-66 win over the Villanova Wildcats Monday night.

Bob tries to lower American Prestige's self-esteem ... The Trump-Xi trade talks ... Making sense of Trump's nuclear saber-rattling ... Signs of a US-China vibe shift ... Is AI accelerating science? ... Bill Gates's climate change of heart ... This week's Gaza ceasefire death toll ... Overtime preview: Bob vs Danny on international law ...

Teaser ... Trump on drug cartels: "We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be like, dead." ... Venezuela: Regime change disguised as drug war ... Marco Rubio holds all the foreign policy power ... Trump Doctrine candidate #1: "Jump at the chance to use force" ... Trump Doctrine candidate #2: Monroe 2.0 ... Roy Cohn's philosophy: "It is a nation of men, not laws" ... Bob: There's value in hypocrisy ... Trump is paving the way for a more competent tyrant ... Could Trump actually be good for the world? ... Trump the comedian ... Heading to Overtime: Bob's mysterious invitation-only conference ...

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What triggered Trump's 100-percent tariff threat? ... How China is mirroring the US playbook ... The real escalation: America's "50% rule" ... Why has US media coverage been so bad? ... Why has US media coverage been so bad? ... US China policy as cognitive empathy failure ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Why Liron became a Yudkowskian ... Eliezer Yudkowsky's vision of AI apocalypse ... Does intelligence want power? ... Decoding Yudkowsky's key Darwinian metaphor ... Is doomerism crowding out other AI worries? ... Liron: The silent majority is very AI anxious ... Heading to Overtime ...

And there's so much more. Mainstreet host Jeff Douglas asks social worker and criminology prof Robert Wright how he'd contextualize this for Nova Scotians.

A sermon by the Right Rev. Robert Wright on the Feast of St. Philip (October 12, 2025) at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta  

The Dean's Forum with the Right Rev. Robert Wright, Bishop of Atlanta, on the Feast of St. Philip

Amazing Bob-Paul discount deal! ... The Bari Weiss trivia test ... Lasting peace in Gaza? ... Why did Trump finally get tough on Bibi? ... MAGA free speech debates ... Is the AI bubble about to burst? ... If anyone builds it, will everyone die? ... Heading into Overtime: Ian McEwan, George Harrison, OpenAI, One Battle After Another ...

Was Free Press bought “to control US media”? ... Why pay $150M for a Substack? ... Netanyahu on the TikTok deal and "giving direction" to the Jewish people ... Pro-Israel donors giving a $2M ultimatum to Charlie Kirk about his ties to Tucker Carlson ... How much influence does Israel have over US media? ... Why Tucker Carlson's appeal to Christians is a problem for Bibi ... Trump: "I would make TikTok 100% MAGA related if I could" ... Why Hamas would be crazy to trust Trump on his Gaza deal ... Prigozhin conspiracy theory: Why would the Russian government want people to think he's alive? ... Cognitive sovereignty ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Steve's book In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us ... Were school closures smart policy? ... The mask mandate question ... Did medical experts get too much say? ... The role of social class and political tribe ... How dissent was suppressed ... Bob takes a jab at Jay Bhattacharya ... Heading to OT: Why Steve wrote the book ...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Normally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast, so I figured I'd make this one an early public release. If you like starting […]

The deal Hamas offered Bibi before October 7 ... How October 7 changed the landscape ... Why Clinton's Camp David talks failed ... What Arafat was actually offered at Camp David ... The centrality of the right of return ... Beyond two states ... Heading into OT: Abandoning false optimism is not pessimism ...

Here's my 2017 conversation with ROBERT WRIGHT on his best-seller WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE. Wright has been asking big questions for nearly four decades in books like THE MORAL ANIMAL, NON-ZERO, and THE  EVOLUTION OF GOD. On Substack, he's persuasively critical  of much of what happens in Washington under either party. Why in the fall of Trump's first year, first term, did he put out WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment? We talk evolutionary psychology, cognitive delusions, tribalism, and Trump. We asked then, what can mindfulness offer people trying to make sense and justice of contemporary politics? Almost exactly 8 years later, the question now, how can mindfulness help us deal with a dictator? 

How Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book envisions AI takeover ... Will we ever really know how AI works? ... The “paperclip maximizer" problem revisited ... Will advanced AIs be insatiable? ... David's alternative takeover scenario: gradual disempowerment ... Can—and should—we keep humans in the loop? ... Heading into Overtime ...

Send us a textAmy Alkon is an independent investigative science writer specializing in “applied science”—using scientific evidence to solve real-world problems. Amy critically evaluates and synthesizes research across disciplines and then translates it into everyday language, empowering regular people to make scientifically informed decisions for the best of their health and well-being.Amy is the author of several bestselling books, including Unf*ckology: How to Live with Guts and Confidence, and most recently, her “science-help” book Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause.Amy has given two TED talks, and has been profiled in The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, The Independent/UK, and Macleans. She has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows, including Good Morning America, Today, NPR, CNN, Nightline, Anderson Cooper, Coast to Coast, and Canada's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, along with podcasts by Adam Carolla, Joe Rogan, Michael Shermer, Robert Wright, and Scott Barry Kaufman.Find Amy at-Amazon- Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopausehttps://www.amyalkon.net/TW- @amyalkon.Find Boundless Body at- myboundlessbody.com Book a session with us here!

Teaser ... Glenn's latest book, Self-Censorship ... Why the Manhattan Institute dropped Glenn ... Glenn on Gaza: “I can't bear it.” ... “Genocide” and other Israel speech code flashpoints ... Has Trump's anti-antisemitism push chilled campus speech? ... The irony of the antisemitism crackdown ... A few kind and less kind words for Bari Weiss ... Are Israel's defenders hurting their cause? ... Glenn's next big project ...

Free speech after Charlie Kirk ... Tyler Robinson's strange messages ... How influential was Kirk? ... Do violent video games encourage violence? ... What Gary Marcus gets right—and (very) wrong—about AI ... Overtime topics: Paul's debate triumph, Redford's legacy, etc. ... Heading into Overtime ...

How this conversation came to be ... What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing ... Who (or what) is driving our polarization? ... Cognitive empathy for MAGA ... Reacting to Charlie Kirk on affirmative action ... Are we re-running the 1960s? ... Coming up in part 2: Israel-Gaza ...

Has the pace of AI progress slowed? ... How the tech CEOs are learning to stop worrying ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Sam Altman ... OpenAI's attempt to shed its non-profit status ... Dario Amodei ... Heading to Overtime ...

In this conversation, Amy Alkon, an award-winning author and applied behavioral science expert, discusses her journey into medical science and the importance of understanding menopause and perimenopause. She emphasizes the need for women to be informed about their health, particularly regarding hormone levels and the impact of diet and exercise. Alkon also addresses common myths in medical care, particularly those affecting women's health, and provides key takeaways for both women and doctors to improve health outcomes.Amy Alkon is an independent investigative science writer specializing in “applied science”—using scientific evidence to solve real-world problems.Alkon critically evaluates and synthesizes research across disciplines and then translates it into everyday language, empowering regular people to make scientifically informed decisions for the best of their health and well-being.For 25 years, Alkon wrote an award-winning, science-based nationally syndicated advice column, distributed by Creators. With GOING MENOPOSTAL, Alkon has authored five books—most recently, her “science-help” book Unfuckology: How to Live with Guts and Confidence (St. Martin's Press, 2018).Alkon is the past President of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society, which brings evolutionary science to public policy, education, and medicine.Alkon has given invited talks to academics on applied science at scientific conferences and to large groups at universities, as well as to general audiences. She has given two TED talks, and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office hires Alkon, a State of California-certified mediator, to do behavioral science-based dispute resolution talks and training videos.Alkon has been profiled in The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, The Independent/UK, and Macleans. Alkon has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows, including Good Morning America, Today, NPR, CNN, Nightline, Anderson Cooper, Coast to Coast, and Canada's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, along with podcasts by Adam Carolla, Joe Rogan, Michael Shermer, Robert Wright, and Scott Barry Kaufman. GRAB HER BOOK "GOING MENOPOSTAL" FROM AMAZON!

Teaser ... "Would Putin send a weird sexually suggestive birthday greeting to a famous affluent well-connected pedophile?" ... Decoding Trump's message in the greeting ... Conspiracy theories vs official silence ... Why is Ezra Klein content with "We'll never know"? ... Why no president wants to release the Epstein files ... Ghislaine names Clinton and Larry Summers ... Does Epstein kill faith in democracy? ... Trump vs. Putin: Authoritarian playbooks compared ... Will Trumpism outlive Trump? ... David Sacks embraces strongman tactics ... How war changes everything overnight ... Trump's Mexico invasion fantasy ... Heading to Overtime ...

The Bob-Paul secret sauce—spilled! ... Mickey Kaus's latest contribution to Epsteinology ... Paul fact-checks Mickey, gets fact-checked ... What's better: AI or indoor plumbing? ... What Gary Marcus gets right—and (very) wrong—about AI ... Has TV made us smarter? ... The pros of the Google antitrust ruling ... Putin's paleo-transhumanism ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Seth's new NYT bestseller, The Fort Bragg Cartel ... What is Delta Force? ... The growth of Delta Force's covert ops and unaccountability ... American "death squads" ... Why cops and prosecutors cover up crimes by elite soldiers ... The mysterious murder of Billy Lavigne ... How invading Afghanistan fueled America's drug crisis ... Heading to Overtime ...

Bob welcomes Nikita back to the Nonzero team ... WSJ's report on Trump's authoritarian drift ... Three levers: streets, media, education system ... Trump the businessman and Trump the politician ... Why Putin was compelling in 1999, when Russia was a young democracy ... Laws vs norms ... Trump and lawfare: how independent is the US judiciary? ... Partisanship among judges ... Trump's view of the world as a game ... Cynicism as a political brand ... Nikita: Putin and Trump share a geopolitical worldview ... The damage the US and Russia did to the international law ... The evolution of Putin's understanding of geopolitics ... Today's Overtime segment is open for everybody! ... The crisis of the nation-state & NonZero's community building project ... "Kremlin is not Russia": distinguishing between the nation and the state ... Bob: We all need a tribe ... What does it mean to be an American? ... Nikita's Armenian propaganda: A legitimate reason to be proud of your nation ...

Joe's notable background ... Is most of the MAGA coalition accelerationist? ... Transhumanism, big tech, Klaus Schwab, and the noosphere ... How the pandemic sparked a MAGA tech backlash ... Palantir as bipartisan bête noire ... The conservative case for AI regulation ... Should fear of China trump fear of AI? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Connor's farewell ... What's next at NonZero ... The looming invasion of Gaza City ... Israel's one-state solution ... Why did Trump give up on Gaza? ... The "blame-it-on-Bibi" farce ... A disappointing week for Ukraine ... How to make security guarantees work ... Ukraine's ticking time bomb ...

Bob defends the Unabomber (kind of) ... Paul nurses his Mickey-inflicted wounds ... Bob deflates the GPT-5 deflation ... How big a deal are LLM hallucinations? ... AI's coming social and economic disruptions ... How Bob and Paul use AI ... The ideas of Hanno Sauer ... Heading to Overtime ...

Nathan's work at AI2—and his p(doom) ... What does “open source AI” mean? ... How Nathan taught a Llama new tricks ... Pros and cons of open sourcing AI ... Nathan's ATOM Project to boost American open models ... What's behind OpenAI's open source play? ... Geoffrey Hinton's case against open models ... Is the US-China open model rivalry really zero-sum? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Nathan's work at AI2—and his p(doom) ... What does “open source AI” mean? ... How Nathan taught a Llama new tricks ... Pros and cons of open sourcing AI ... Nathan's ATOM Project to boost American open models ... What's behind OpenAI's open source play? ... Geoffrey Hinton's case against open models ... Is the US-China open model rivalry really zero-sum? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Epstein's Israel connections ... Epstein's history of blackmail ... Was it suicide? ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump ... Why won't Trump release the files? ... The Israel connection(s) ... Some Epstein-Wexner weirdness ... What's the deal with Ghislaine? ... Was it suicide? (cont'd) ... Mickey plays pundit defender ... Influence operation or personal fetish operation? Or both? ... How Biden made war in Taiwan more likely ... Epstein's strangely light 2008 sentence ... The political cost for Trump ... How dangerous is Trump? ...

Epstein's Israel connections ... Epstein's history of blackmail ... Was it suicide? ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump ... Why won't Trump release the files? ... The Israel connection(s) ... Some Epstein-Wexner weirdness ... What's the deal with Ghislaine? ... Was it suicide? (cont'd) ... Mickey plays pundit defender ... Influence operation or personal fetish operation? Or both? ... How Biden made war in Taiwan more likely ... Epstein's strangely light 2008 sentence ... The political cost for Trump ... How dangerous is Trump? ...

Jordan's ChinaTalk podcast ... Making sense of America's “China consensus” ... Are fears of Chinese global ambitions overblown? ... The logic (or is it illogic?) of the AI arms race ... China and the Ukraine War ... Influence operations: Chinese vs American ... China's endgame re the US—and vice-versa ... Is US China talk an echo chamber? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Jordan's ChinaTalk podcast ... Making sense of America's “China consensus” ... Are fears of Chinese global ambitions overblown? ... The logic (or is it illogic?) of the AI arms race ... China and the Ukraine War ... Influence operations: Chinese vs American ... China's endgame re the US—and vice-versa ... Is US China talk an echo chamber? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Substack glory and livestream anxiety ... Reading eugenics into a dopey jeans ad ... Does Sydney Sweeney spell the end of “inclusive marketing”? ... Bob vs. Paul on IQ and “general intelligence” ... Paul reviews the new Billy Joel documentary ... The Epstein prison video snafu: a Bayesian take ... Ghislaine gets a free upgrade ...

Substack glory and livestream anxiety ... Reading eugenics into a dopey jeans ad ... Does Sydney Sweeney spell the end of “inclusive marketing”? ... Bob vs. Paul on IQ and “general intelligence” ... Paul reviews the new Billy Joel documentary ... The Epstein prison video snafu: a Bayesian take ... Ghislaine gets a free upgrade ...

Derek and Danny plug their new Crusades series ... This week's shift in Gaza discourse ... The real danger Gaza poses for Israel ... Does the left's rhetoric on Israel miss the mark? ... Elite media's think tank problem ... Is American imperialism really the problem? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Derek and Danny plug their new Crusades series ... This week's shift in Gaza discourse ... The real danger Gaza poses for Israel ... Does the left's rhetoric on Israel miss the mark? ... Elite media's think tank problem ... Is American imperialism really the problem? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Trump's AI Action plan ... The contradictions inherent to Trump's plan ... How Trump's anti-globalism undermines his AI goals ... Anthropic's leaked memo: Ideals vs Persian Gulf cash ... Bob: Dario Amodei is the true AI ideologue ... How AI “safety” became a hawkish movement ... Why true objectivity in LLMs is a fantasy ... A Palantir exec dives into the movie business ... Is AI surgery around the corner? ... Why the Gaza ceasefire talks are collapsing—again ... Biden and Trump's allergy to using US leverage ...

Trump's AI Action plan ... The contradictions inherent to Trump's plan ... How Trump's anti-globalism undermines his AI goals ... Anthropic's leaked memo: Ideals vs Persian Gulf cash ... Bob: Dario Amodei is the true AI ideologue ... How AI “safety” became a hawkish movement ... Why true objectivity in LLMs is a fantasy ... A Palantir exec dives into the movie business ... Is AI surgery around the corner? ... Why the Gaza ceasefire talks are collapsing—again ... Biden and Trump's allergy to using US leverage ...

Josh's hopes for post-Assad Syria—revisited ... The challenge(s) facing the Syrian government ... What's driving Syria's sectarian violence? ... Josh's personal window into the al-Sharaa regime's brutality ... The new regime's church vs state problem ... How the Druze became central to Israeli-Syrian hostilities ... Why did Israel escalate with Syria, really? ... Josh's current outlook on Syria's future ... Heading to Overtime ...

The full reason for Bob's absence—revealed ... What's the real story with Trump and Epstein? ... A peek down the Epstein rabbit hole ... Grok goes full Nazi-pornbot ... The promise and perils of AI companions ... Bob on dealing with cancer in the age of AI ... Heading to Overtime ...