11 October 2025
Whose Toady is Bari Weiss?
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss what to expect from Bari Weiss’s CBS News, Trump’s Israel-Gaza deal, OpenAI’s new app platform, and more.
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In this video:
- 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
Why the Israel-Palestine Conflict Persists
Robert Wright and Robert Malley, co-author of the new book Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine, discuss how failures of perspective-taking have doomed attempted solutions.
Two Visions of AI Doom
Robert Wright and David Krueger—AI safety activist and machine learning professor at The University of Montréal—discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s new book on AI takeover and contrast it with David’s own theory of how a takeover could play out.
Israel, Gaza, and Free Speech in America
Robert Wright and Glenn Loury discuss the war in Gaza and the discourse around it—including the “genocide” question, the evolving Israel speech code, and the price Glenn paid for airing diverse views on the Glenn Show.
Free Speech after Charlie Kirk
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss the threats to and weaponization of free speech norms in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assasination.
Profiles in Ambition
Robert Wright and Holly Elmore, executive director of PauseAI US, look at the motives of the AI moguls and some concerns those motives could raise.
Epstein, AI, and the Xi-Putin Path to Immortality
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss what the Ghislaine interview really revealed—via Mickey Kaus’s analysis. Plus: AI vs indoor plumbing, the Xi-Putin summit, and more.
Is Trump Becoming Putin?
Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov compare and contrast the two leaders in light of the US president’s second term.
The MAGA Case Against AI Accelerationism
Robert Wright and Joe Allen, tech editor on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, discuss AI, transhumanism, Palantir, the noosphere, China, and more.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Bari Weiss, CBS, and Israel
Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss Paramount’s $150M move to bring the Free Press founder in as editor-in-chief at CBS News. Plus: Trump’s Gaza peace plan, Netanyahu on TikTok, a Prigozhin conspiracy theory, and more.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
How We Mishandled the Covid Pandemic
Robert Wright and political scientist Stephen Macedo—co-author of the book In Covid’s Wake—discuss the shortcomings of America’s response to Covid and the forces that shaped it.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Tribalism and the Charlie Kirk Killing
Robert Wright and Glenn Loury discuss the assassination of the conservative activist—and the role of political polarization in leading to it and in shaping the aftermath.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Trump’s Epstein Problem and His Authoritarian Slide
Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss Trump’s birthday greeting to Epstein and what the broader story says about the media and US democracy. Plus: Trumpism vs Putinism, South Park, and more.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
American Death Squads
Robert Wright interviews Seth Harp, investigative journalist and author of the NYT bestseller “The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces,” about drugs and mayhem in the US Army’s secretive Delta Force and the unforeseen consequences of military interventions.
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Trump’s Failures in Israel and Ukraine
