The Wright Show
Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
Show episodes
News Round-up ... How progressives should approach Trump's foreign policy ... Anatol Lieven joins to discuss Russia-Ukraine peace talks ...
Conn and the ancestry of this podcast ... Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy ... Modern matrimony by the numbers ... Are monogamous societies more egalitarian? ... Why the West went monogamous ... Heading to Overtime ...
Scott’s anti-war libertarianism and his new book, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine ... How the US made the Russia-Ukraine war more likely ... Was Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution a US-backed coup? ... America’s promise to the Soviet Union not to expand NATO ... Do
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Syria’s uncertain political future ... Has the Islamist rebel group HTS actually moderated? ... The extent of retributive violence since Assad fell ... Syria's complicated factional divides ... America's control of Syrian oil fields ... Heading to Overtime ...
Yuri’s high-stakes debate on Covid’s origins ... Pros and cons of Covid vaccines ... Do Covid “coincidences” point to a lab leak? ... Does the pattern of Covid’s initial spread suggest zoonotic origin? ... Why the Wuhan market may have amplified Covid’s spread ... Covid’s lineages A and B ... US-China collaboration in
