Robert Wright's Nonzero

Overton Windows: Israel/Palestine

Putin’s Spartacus Problem (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Russians with Attitude (Robert Wright, Nikolay, and Kirill)

Creeping Toward Peace in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

How Does AI Work? (Robert Wright & Timothy Nguyen)

Russian Mutiny, Supreme Court Scrutiny (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

The Origins of US Interventionism (Robert Wright & Sean Mirski)

Ukraine’s Counter(productive) Offensive (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Autism and the Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Simon Baron-Cohen)

In this episode of the Nonzero Podcast, Robert Wright interviews Simon Baron-Cohen, a clinical psychologist and professor at Cambridge, about his work on empathy and autism. They discuss Baron-Cohen's early research on theory of mind and its relation to autism, the distinction between cognitive and emotional empathy, a...

Ukraine’s Dam and Tucker’s Aliens (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Nonzero and The End of History (Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama)

The Dam Breaks in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Ukraine and the Western Media (Robert Wright & Branko Marcetic)

The New World Disorder (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)

A Manhattan Project for AI Safety (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)

DeSantis's and Ukraine's Incursions (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

In Defense of Crying (Robert Wright & Benjamin Perry)

Dumping Biden, Saving DeSantis (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Is AI Anxiety Overblown? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

Putin's prickly chef, Trump's town hall (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)