Gaza Awareness Week (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:28 Derek and Danny plug their new Crusades series 3:19 This week’s shift in Gaza discourse 12:20 The real danger Gaza poses for Israel 22:05 Does the left’s rhetoric on Israel miss the mark? 32:24 Elite media’s think tank problem 36:27 Is American imperialism really the problem? 40:04 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded July 31, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:28.7	Hello, Derek and Danny.
0:32.3	How you doing, Bob?
0:33.5	Hi, Bob.
0:35.8	Couldn't be better in response to Danny's question.
0:41.3	And Derek, I'm sure you were curious about my welfare as well.
0:44.1	I am.
0:44.9	I'm always curious about your welfare.
0:46.6	I think it's funny that we're pretending for the viewers that we just all just logged on and said hi.
0:53.7	We've been talking for a few minutes now.
0:55.8	Look, we, notwithstanding that, notwithstanding that, this is one of the least fake
1:02.3	podcast in the podcast universe.
1:04.5	Okay, there is that one bit of artifice where we pretend we've never met each other,
1:08.9	but I like what they do at always at war with Quincy.
1:13.0	They begin each episode with a phone call.
1:16.0	Like the phone rings.
1:17.7	I like that.
1:18.4	Yeah.
1:19.2	Oh, hi.
1:19.9	I thought that was a good bit.
1:22.1	Nice to hear from you.
1:23.7	So this is our once every two months gathering.
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