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Parrot Room: The Silence of the Parrots
Bob and Mickey’s Year-End Extravaganza (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Special Year-End Issue
The Misunderstanding of Elon Musk
The Price Labor Paid for Free Trade (Robert Wright & Adam Dean)
Parrot Room: Doxxing the Parrot
Has the tide turned against Elon? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Earthling: Out-of-control AIs are here
The environment that warped our brains
A Debate On Ukraine (Robert Wright & Anders Åslund)
The Taibbi Twitter Files (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Ukraine rolls the dice
Why our minds are designed to mislead us
How to Be Anti-Tribal (Robert Wright & Mónica Guzmán)
Parrot Room: Parrotus Interruptus
Biden in 2024? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Russian infrastructure strikes and the laws of war
Is there a cognitive empathy “module”?
American Jews and Israel (Robert Wright & Eric Alterman)
Parrot Room: Effective Parrotism
The Elon-SBF Connection (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Parrot Room: Extremely Hardcore Parrot
Midterms, Missiles, and Musk (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Why do so many Chinese people like their government?
Audio Essay: Elon’s (cognitive) empathy issue
Buddhism and Modern Psychology
A Mastodon Explainer (Robert Wright & Harry McCracken)
Buddhism & Modern Psychology: Full Audio Lecture 06
Buddhism & Modern Psychology: Full Audio Lecture 05
Buddhism & Modern Psychology: Full Audio Lecture 04
Buddhism & Modern Psychology: Full Audio Lecture 03
Buddhism & Modern Psychology: Full Audio Lecture 02
Buddhism & Modern Psychology: Full Audio Lecture 01
Parrot Room: Never Meta Parrot I Didn’t Like
Blue Checks and Red Ripples (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Decoding Biden’s Ukraine Diplomacy Signals
Awakening to the Meaning Crisis (Robert Wright & John Vervaeke)
Bull in a Twitter Shop (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Rubio ratchets up the McCarthyism
Elon’s (cognitive) empathy issue
Russia, Ukraine, and US Diplomacy (Robert Wright & Samuel Charap)
Parrot Room: Parrot Ushered Offstage
Ukraine's Blank Check (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Give Ukraine diplomacy some respect!
Understanding a Putin or a Hitler
Is Outer Space the New Wild West? (Robert Wright & Douglas Ligor)
Parrot Room: Quien es mas cranky?
Russian Retreat, Republican Surge (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: The new axis of evil—made in America?
Audio Essay: Tribalism Among Nations
A War Correspondent on Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Seth Harp)
Avoiding the China Trap (Robert Wright & Jessica Chen Weiss)
The Russia-Ukraine Goldilocks Zone (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: How Mike Pompeo helps China avoid accountability
Early Access: Avoiding the China Trap
Putin’s global crusade against domestic political threats
A Russian View: Post-Mobilization Edition (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Parrot Room: Parrot of Destruction
Biden's Nuclear Signals (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Moscow murder mystery solved
Audio Essay: Biden's Grand and Dangerous Vision
China, the US, and the Danger Zone (Robert Wright, Hal Brands, and Michael Beckley)
The Radical Power of Cognitive Empathy
Parrot Room: Parrot Goes Hollywood
Putin Crosses the Rubicon (again) (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Putin beyond the brink
Early Access: China, the US, and the Danger Zone
Is Russia-Ukraine Spinning Out of Control? (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
Putin Makes His Move (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Will he go nuclear? And other Putin puzzles
Biden’s grand and dangerous vision
In China’s Shadow (Robert Wright & Sebastian Strangio)
Russia on the Ropes? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: You can’t prevent a war after it starts
Listen to This Essay: Why we’re so clueless about Putin
Listen to This Essay: Salman Rushdie and the Clash of Civilizations
Debating Ukraine, Russia, China, and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Bret Stephens)
Why we’re so clueless about Putin
Earthling: Anarchy in Outer Space
Parrot Room: A Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Parrot
Biden's Bad Messaging (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Listen to This Essay: The Case for Shorttermism
Listen to This Essay: How the war in Ukraine could lead to war in Taiwan
Listen to This Essay: War and Mindfulness
Listen to This Essay: Frankenstein as Guiding Light
Varieties of Spiritual Experience (Robert Wright & David B. Yaden)
MAGA, the Midterms, and the Media (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Warning: Don’t feed the narrative!
State of the Podcast Address (Robert Wright)
Parrot Room: The Triumph of Sanity over Sudafed
Democrats on the March (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: The AI revolution is here
Managing the Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Robert Wright & Justin Logan)
Parrot Room: Total Eclipse of the Parrot
The High Costs of the FBI’s Trump Raid (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Biden hardens stance against Afghan people
Salman Rushdie and the Clash of Civilizations
Russia, Ukraine, and Foreign Policy Restraint (Robert Wright & Derek Davison)
Parrot Room: Parrot Pressured by Sinister Forces
The Trump Files (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Do Americans support war with China over Taiwan?
Remnants of the Blogging Era (Robert Wright, Jonah Goldberg, and Mickey Kaus)
Parrot Room: You Were Working as a Parrot in a Cocktail Bar
A Biden Comeback? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Nuclear warnings week
How the war in Ukraine could lead to war in Taiwan
Taiwan, Ukraine, and Pelosi (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)
Earthling: Russian Foreign Minister schools US leaders in political theory
Polarization in the Post-Blog Age (cont'd)
How the Ukraine War Ends (Robert Wright & Rajan Menon)
Parrot Room: We Got the Moves like Biden
The Ever-Growing Case Against Trump (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Joe Manchin’s dual threat to global cooperation
How the Ukraine War Could End... Or Escalate
What’s so funny about nuclear war?
The Golden Age of Blogging (and now) (Robert Wright & Ross Douthat)
Parrot Room: LA Proved Too Much for the Parrot
The Biden-MBS Fist Bump (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Was Obama right about Russia-Ukraine?
An Entrepreneur Takes on the Foreign Policy Blob (Robert Wright & David Sacks)
Parrot Room: We Settle All the Family Business
Inflation Ruling the Nation (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Stopping a vicious global warming cycle
The Golden Age of Blogging (and now)
The Trump Problem’s Persistence (Robert Wright, David Corn, and Mickey Kaus)
Parrot Room: Can We Please Redo 2015?
Judging Cassidy Hutchinson (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Is Biden turning Iran into Russia?
Making It in the Online Journalism Biz (Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias)
Parrot Room: Comin’ round Snowflake Mountain
The Supreme Court's Two Bombshells (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Is the US already at war with Russia?
Making It in the Online Journalism Biz
It’s time to talk about peace in Ukraine
Bernie’s Adviser Talks Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Matthew Duss)
Parrot Room: Open the Pod Bay Doors, Bob
Heroes and Villains of January 6 (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Hillary accused of hastening apocalypse
Bernie's Adviser Talks Russia-Ukraine
Who’s to Blame for the State of Russia? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Parrot Room: What would Felicia do?
The January 6 Hearings Hit Primetime (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Are Russian intellectuals rallying around Putin?
What Syria Reveals about Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Parrot Room: Quien es mas loco?
Beyond Gun Control Binaries (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Biden's pan-American party faces RSVP problems
Is Everything Falling Apart? (Robert Wright & Jonathan Haidt)
Parrot Room: When the dogma catches the karma
Will Uvalde Spur Gun Legislation? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Jihad, Trumpism, and the Crisis of Liberalism (Robert Wright & Suzanne Schneider)
Parrot Room: Touch my beak and I’ll buy you a horse
Replacing Great Replacement Theory (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Power of Crisis (Robert Wright & Ian Bremmer)
Parrot Room: Monster vs. Monster
Spinning Ukraine Coverage in the West (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Russia, China, and the New Cold War (Robert Wright & Susan Thornton)
Parrot Room: Bob fought the Blob and the Blob won
Hillbilly Victory (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)
Is Elon Musk In Over His Head? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Ukraine speech code violated--McCarthyism ensues
A Biden-Trump Rematch? (Bill Scher, Matt K. Lewis, and Robert Wright)
Is Putin's Russia Fascist? (Robert Wright & Marlene Laruelle)
Parrot Room: The Parrot Room is melting in the dark
Putin’s Gameplan in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: TV News meets Military Industrial Complex
Cognitive Empathy and Ukraine (Robert Wright & Aryeh Cohen-Wade)
What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Robert Wright)
Earthling: Russia warnings not heeded by Obama and Bush
A Politics of Love (Robert Wright & Marianne Williamson)
The Blob has won the Ukraine framing war
Parrot Room: The Once and Future Current Thing
Can the Ukraine War Be Ended Soon? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Putin and Zelensky get more intense
Could Russia-Ukraine Go Nuclear? (Robert Wright & Joe Cirincione)
The Tide Turns against Will Smith (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Putin Faces Nationalist Backlash
What's Russia Thinking? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Parrot Room: I’m Symmetrical Too
Inching Toward Peace in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: The War Crimes Question
China and America (and Taiwan and Ukraine) (Robert Wright & Kishore Mahbubani)
Parrot Room: Bringing the Maidan Back Home
Is Putin Tanking in Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Is a longer war a wider war?
Debating Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)
Parrot Room: Xi Who Must Be Obeyed
Waging Information War in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Is Ukraine becoming Syria?
War in Ukraine: Causes and Effects (Robert Wright & Katrina vanden Heuvel)
Seeing Ukraine Clearly (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Ukraine and the New Cold War
Russia, Putin, and the Psychology of Status (Robert Wright & Steven Ward)
Parrot Room: Trouble in Meatspace
Ukraine's Resistance (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Ukraine's demographic fault lines
Putin and the psychology of status
A Russian's View of Ukraine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Why Biden didn’t negotiate seriously with Putin
Playing Chicken in Kyiv (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Ukraine crisis culprit of the week
Spotify's plan for world domination
Why Hitchens Matters (Robert Wright & Ben Burgis)
Detaching Trump from Trumpism (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: The man who foresaw the Ukraine crisis
Ukraine and the Crisis of US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)
China and the Challenge of Cognitive Empathy
Parrot Room: Local parrot has near-death experience
Saving Putin’s Face (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: The opening ceremony of Cold War II
Identifying Anti-tribal Intellectuals (Robert Wright & Arnold Kling)
Turning Ukraine into a turning point
Parrot Room: Taking the Lou Reed Test
The Ukrainian Thaw (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Earthling: Musk vs. moon, Good times for arms makers, Eating animals guiltlessly...
Assessing the Russia-Ukraine Crisis (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
How cognitive empathy could have prevented the Ukraine crisis
Parrot Room: We’re here to rob you of your childhood
Ukraine and Biden’s Brain (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Corruption of US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Richard Hanania)
Parrot Room: Where’s Covid when you need it?
Biden’s Exit Strategy (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Earthling: China vs. Musk; Blob vs. Reason; Welcome to the Waste Age, etc.
The corruption of US foreign policy
Retribution, tribalism, and an Apocalypse Aversion Project update
How to Talk about Trans Issues (Robert Wright & Agustín Fuentes)
Don’t Look Down! (A review of Don’t Look Up)
Parrot Room: Are we good enough for Ben Smith?
Biden’s Long, Slow Pivot toward Normalcy (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)