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Disagreement and Persuasion with Jessica Tarlov (opens the original)
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Dear Thinkers,Tim recently sat down with Fox News commentator and pollster Jessica Tarlov for a nearly hour-long conversation, split between the state of the midterms and Jessica’s new book, I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends. Below are just some of the topics they touched on: Are we headed for free and fair elections? Jessica opened by naming her worry directly: after Trump aired a taxpayer-funded campaign ad during college football and NFL broadcasts, talk of seizing voting m
Trump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert Reich (opens the original)
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Dear Thinkers,Tim just finished speaking with Robert Reich as a guest on his Substack for a wide-ranging conversation about power, corruption, and what history can tell us about where America goes from here. Below are just some of the things they touched on (watch the full video above for event more): Superpower suicide. Bob opened by asking Tim to define the term he coined at the Council on Foreign Relations. Tim explained that conventional language about “national interest” and “state calculat
Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum (opens the original)
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Dear Thinkers,We live in trying and testing times, with a lot of noise and information being hurled, which is why there is no better time than a clarifying and thoughtful conversation with historian and journalist Anne Applebaum (Anne Applebaum), built around her September 14 Atlantic article, “MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption.” Tim and Anne had an extremely enlightening conversation that focused on a question Anne wrote about in her article: What
AI, War, and Dignity (Kharkiv Meditations, 7/10) (opens the original)
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Given the air raids and such, I had some time at night in Kharkiv to do some thinking out loud. This is the seventh of ten videos that I recorded. There is a logical progression to these ten short meditations; by this point I was thinking about AI, which I suppose was slightly prompted by the tech in jet-propelled Russian drones and other Russian arms, but more generally appropriate after meditations on human ethical concepts. I have some US media coming up on this channel and elsewhere this wee
On Fascism (Kharkiv Meditations, 6/10) (opens the original)
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While in Kharkiv I found myself meditation on some basic issues at night; the prompts came from the war itself, but the time awake lent itself to the effort of connecting daily experience to bigger political concepts. Fascism, the topic of this recording, came to mind at night in Kharkiv for obvious reasons, not least the geographical proximity to fascist Russia, and the wild violence of Russia’s war of aggression. There are four videos remaining after this one: the next two, on AI and on human
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