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50 Days of Trump 2.0 (Robert Wright & Eric Levitz)
Listen now | 0:00 Is the chaos starting to subside? 11:22 Trump’s tariff strategy (or lack thereof)18:32 Trump’s baffling, backfiring Canada obsession…
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Robert Wright
1:26:44
Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Listen now | 0:00 What could go right with Trump’s foreign policy? 7:47 Trump’s Bibi-pleasing Middle East path 13:25 How would Europe-led defence of…
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Robert Wright
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Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks)
Listen now (108 mins) | The Dangerous US-China Race to AGI and Beyond
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Robert Wright
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Trump vs. Zelensky: The Morning After (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)
Listen now | 0:00 Andrew’s new gig (and gifts) 3:15 Play-by-play of the Oval Office blowup 9:06 Zelensky’s and Trump’s obsessions 16:32 What are…
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Robert Wright
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How to Slash the Pentagon Budget | NonZero World feat. Julia Gledhill
Listen now | 0:00 Introduction 1:56 How the Pentagon budget got so big 6:30 How to cut $60 billion in military spending this year 14:46 The…
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Connor Echols
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February 2025

Immortality and its Discontents
Plus: Doomsday seeds, AI mischief, low energy transition, Trump and the law, and more!
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Connor Echols
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Hockey, Trump, and Other US-Canada Issues (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 Paul’s cold take on US-Canada relations 4:14 How representative is representative government, really? 11:12 Bob’s plan to end hockey…
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Robert Wright
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Trump 2.0 and the Law (Robert Wright & Jack Goldsmith)
Listen now | 0:00 Intro 0:41 Jack’s experience with presidential power 2:09 Unpacking Trump’s Pentagon and DOJ purges 11:10 Which legal battles could…
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Robert Wright
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How Biden Helped Bring War to Ukraine
Three years after Russia’s invasion, it’s time for the US to revisit the roots of the crisis.
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Leonid Ragozin
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Trump: Peacemaker or Chaos Agent? | NonZero World feat. Robert Wright
Listen now | 0:00 Intro and housekeeping 1:37 Trump's very good, very bad week on Ukraine 12:53 Trump vs his foreign policy team? 19:17 Great-power…
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Connor Echols
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Robert Wright
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1:11:32
Trump’s Very Good, Very Bad Week on Ukraine
Plus: CIA vs cartels, Musk seems conflicted, AI-powered news, pandemic blues, and more!
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Connor Echols
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Interpreting AI’s Acceleration (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose)
Listen now | 0:00 Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability 1:57 Is *a* singularity near? 9:28 Nora: AI may take my job within two years 14:32…
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Robert Wright
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