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0:00 Another high-synergy, brilliant collaboration
1:15 Is Elon our first true oligarch?
9:57 Trump assembles his Justice League of hawks
16:29 Biden’s awful foreign policy team
21:25 Trump’s plan to purge the military
33:06 Will Trump go full-on authoritarian?
40:21 Left-wing capitalists—and a discount offer
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded November 14, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 The sorry state of America’s liberal media
18:21 Is Elon a genius? Or kinda boring?
30:59 The coming era of severe AI disruption
37:14 JFK’s bizarre autopsy