Client States Gone Wild (Earthling Unplugged)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from this week’s Earthling. Read it here:
Recorded August 16, 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. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello, Andrew Day. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:31.8 | Happy Earthling Day to you, Andrew. |
| 0:34.8 | We just got an issue of the Earthling out, |
| 0:36.7 | the Friday edition of a Non-Zero newsletter. It's another Earthling Day to you, Andrew. We just got an issue of the Earthling out, the Friday edition of a non-zero newsletter. |
| 0:39.3 | It's another Earthling with the quality of doneness. |
| 0:42.5 | Just objectively, it's done. |
| 0:45.2 | There's no denying that fact. |
| 0:46.7 | And we always have to cite Fred Barnes, formerly my colleague at the New Republic for that phrase. |
| 0:52.8 | It's a great phrase. |
| 0:53.5 | It has the quality of doneness. |
| 0:54.6 | He used to say about pieces he had done. |
| 0:54.2 | And I would say it's another, you know, not just a done issue, but a very good issue. And it's on some topical issues that we're going to discuss today. That's what this is. this is Earthling unplugged where the Earthling is as you, the Friday edition of the newsletter, the Non Zero Newsletter on Substack. And then sometimes we record this Earthling |
| 1:15.5 | unplugged special podcast episode of the Non Zero podcast and talk about items from the Earthling. |
| 1:21.9 | Usually we talk about some topical issues, maybe in domestic politics, but I think this time |
| 1:26.4 | we can just jump right into the lead item, because as I said, it's pretty topical issues, maybe in domestic politics. But I think this time we can just jump right into the lead item, |
| 1:28.9 | because as I said, it's pretty topical. |
| 1:31.4 | I mean, that item is America's out-of-control client states. |
| 1:35.3 | So this week brought more reminders that the U.S. is better at arming |
| 1:39.8 | and emboldening its client states than controlling their behavior. |
| 1:43.9 | This has been something of a theme on Earthling Unplugged. |
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