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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...
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The Wright Show
Hosted by Bloggingheads.tv · society · EN-US
About this Podcast:
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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What is The Wright Show about?
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
What has The Wright Show covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Trump's Failures in Israel and Ukraine (Connor Echols & Robert Wright)" (23 August 2025, 60 minutes), "Feeling the GPT-5 (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)" (20 August 2025, 60 minutes), and "Can Trump and Putin Make a Deal? (Connor Echols & George Beebe)" (15 August 2025, 60 minutes).
How often does The Wright Show publish?
The Wright Show publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 140 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Wright Show?
Booking probability for The Wright Show is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Wright Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Wright Show's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Wright Show is a society podcast with 140 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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The Wright Show
Feeling the GPT-5 (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Aug 20, 20251 hourS0Bob 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...
- Aug 15, 20251 hourS0
What’s at stake in Alaska ... George: Don’t try to do too much ... EU yes, NATO no ... Could Putin dupe Trump into a bad deal? ... Sanctions: painful, but not decisive ... What Russian media is saying about the talks...
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The Open Source AI Question (Robert Wright & Nathan Lambert)
Aug 14, 20251 hourS0Nathan’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...
- Aug 12, 20251 hourS0
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...
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Does America’s “China Consensus” Make Sense? A Debate (Robert Wright & Jordan Schneider)
Aug 7, 20251 hourS0Jordan’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...
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Must We Discuss Sydney Sweeney? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Aug 5, 20251 hourS0Substack 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...
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Anatomy of a Man-Made Famine (Connor Echols & Alex de Waal)
Aug 5, 20251 hourS0Why Gaza’s famine is the "most intense" in decades ... From food secure to starvation: How Gaza unraveled ... Blinken's willful blindness to Israel's obstruction of aid ... How the US muzzled its own famine warning...
- Aug 1, 20251 hourS0
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...
- Jul 26, 20251 hourS0
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...
- Jul 24, 20251 hourS0
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...
- Jul 23, 20251 hourS0
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...
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Why China Won't Invade Taiwan (Connor Echols & Dan Grazier)
Jul 19, 20251 hourS0Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is so unlikely ... Taiwan’s terrain: A defender’s dream, an invader’s nightmare ... Why Taipei might be the hardest city in the world to conquer ... Dan: China would need nearly 5...
- Jul 17, 20251 hourS0
A brief message from Bob ... Why many intelligent people think we’re living in a simulation ... The philosophical argument that you’re probably not real ... How cosmic rays might (and might not) reveal that reality is...
- Jul 16, 20251 hourS0
A brief message from Bob ... What Lee means when he says "time is fundamental" ... Understanding the universe as a network ... A (very) tentative theory of consciousness ... Did the laws of physics evolve? ... Is the...
- Jul 12, 20251 hourS0
Why Neysun brings American students and scholars to China ... Visiting China after Covid ... Balancing US and Chinese red lines ... When Neysun's students pushed Chinese officials on human rights ... Do US students fear...
- Jul 10, 20251 hourS0
A brief message from Bob ... Greg's new book, The Gutfeld Monologues ... How going to Berkeley pushed Greg toward conservatism ... Trumpism creates strange ideological bedfellows ... Bob offers a magic solution to the...
- Jul 8, 20251 hourS0
A brief message from Bob ... Why consciousness is so weird ... Is consciousness like your brain’s shadow? ... If David was a zombie, would anyone know? ... Bob’s wacky theory about consciousness ... Is consciousness...
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Is diplomacy with Iran dead? (Connor Echols & Alan Eyre)
Jul 4, 20251 hourS0Are US-Iran talks dead? ... Do normal Iranians care about the nuclear program? ... Understanding Iran’s enrichment red line ... Assessing the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities ... Iran's decision to kick out...
- Jul 3, 20251 hourS0
A brief message from Bob ... John’s upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy ... Is the US to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? ... Is Putin less rational than John assumes? ... Why John...
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Robert Wright
Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
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Paul Bloom
professor at the University of Toronto and author of Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, South African HorrorFest
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Nathan Lambert
post-training lead, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Jordan Schneider
China Talk
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