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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Antisemitism and Free Speech (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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1:53 Is it ever okay to fire professors for speech? 13:32 Bari Weiss spreads misinformation without consequence 22:28 Are some of Israel’s American supporters unwittingly inflaming antisemitism? 33:33 Ayaan Hirsi Ali converts to Christianity without abandoning New Atheist creed 38:46 Do Sam Harris et. al. get religion totally wrong? 49:12 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded May 07, 2024.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.

0:27.1

Hi, Paul.

0:30.9

Hi, Bob.

0:31.7

How are you today?

0:33.3

I can't complain.

0:34.5

How are you, Paul?

0:35.7

Oh, I already asked you that.

0:38.4

I'm doing well. Do you want to do it again? No, no, I can't complain. How are you, Paul? Oh, I already asked you that. I'm doing well.

0:46.0

Do you want to do it again? No, no, I thought, I think the spontaneity counts for something. People really value that.

0:53.9

I'm doing well. I like that. This is the non-zero podcast. You're Robert Wright, journalist, scholar, public intellectual.

0:58.5

I'm Paul Glenn, professor of psychology at University of Toronto.

1:01.1

Do you want to correct my introduction of you?

1:05.5

I was just going to say you could have kept going a little longer with my list of things, you know.

1:10.2

I don't think you got, you didn't come near covering the waterfront, but it's fine.

1:11.9

Say, I didn't hear the word sage. Did you sage i don't recall hearing that guru guru mystic mystic inspiration but come on come on i bet people

1:22.7

a lot of people just thought with journalists yeah i think you're but but scholar but scholar, definitely a scholar. And maybe we'll

1:29.2

discuss this later, because I feel there's a little bit of frustration that your scholarly

1:33.1

nature hasn't fully been recognized in public intellectual. It's so nice for you to say that,

1:39.3

Paul. I think it's, I think it was a nice introduction, actually. Yeah, no, that was nice. It got better as it went along.

1:46.6

So, yeah, I mean, look, if you're going to handle the introduction, go ahead, guide us.

1:50.3

What do we talk about?

1:52.3

Well, when we spoke last, we talked about the three speech issues, the campus issues revolving around the Israel-Palestine thing. I have one

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