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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
25:37 Elon’s darkly weird grandfather
37:37 Has America gone full oligarchy?
42:52 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eric Levitz (New York Magazine, Vox). Recorded March 10, 2025.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 The State of the Union—and of Dem resistance
9:31 Can supply-side progressivism beat Trumpism?
17:09 The Dems' trans transition
22:07 Trump’s AI blessing and AI curse
31:54 The Columbia free speech case
36:37 Hope for democracy, despair for literacy
Overtime video:
