16 November 2025

Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and the Gatekeeper Question

Robert Wright and Paul Bloom discuss whether podcasts and other DIY media have put an end to gatekeeping and speech codes. Plus: Tucker for prez? William F. Buckley as proto-MAGA; and more!

Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire & Other Sketchy Deals

Robert Wright and American Prestige hosts Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner discuss the US-China trade talks, the state of the Gaza ceasefire, Bill Gates’s climate change of heart, and more!

The Trump Doctrine

Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss what the ongoing assault on Venezuela says about the president’s foreign-policy agenda—and his mind.

The US-China Microchip-Minerals Showdown

Paul Triolo of the Albright Stonebridge Group and AIStackDecrypted on Substack joins Robert Wright to unpack the latest on the Trump-Xi trade war—plus: how we got here and where things could go next.

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.

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.

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.

Nonzero (The Wright Show)

Pax Americana?

Robert Wright debates the uses and misuses of American military power with Shadi Hamid, author of the new book The Case for American Power.

Nonzero (The Wright Show)

Zohran, Epstein, and Two Decades of Bob and Mickey

Two decades after Bloggingheads.tv debuted, Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus look back on the blog era—and also discuss this week’s election results, Tucker-Fuentes, the AI bubble, and (of course) Jeffrey Epstein.

Nonzero (The Wright Show)

Will AGI be our doom?

Robert Wright and AI safety activist Liron Shapira discuss and decode the vision of AI apocalypse presented in Eliezer Yudkowsky’s new book.

Nonzero (The Wright Show)

Bari Weiss, CBS, and Israel

Robert Wright and Nikita Petrov discuss Paramount’s 150ドルM 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)

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.

Nonzero (The Wright 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.

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