Remnants of the Blogging Era (Robert Wright, Jonah Goldberg, and Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Remembering the halcyon days of early Bloggingheads ... Jonah: Our institutions have become platforms for parasites ... Censorship and polarization in the social media age ... What Mickey cribbed from Jonah to jumpstart his blogging career ... How Twitter killed the blogging star ... Is Substack blogging reborn? ... What’s the matter with the modern left? Jonah diagnoses ... A Trump-Biden rematch and other depressing symptoms of polarization ... Is devotion to an institution a sucker bet? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:08.6	Hi, Jonah.
0:10.2	Hey, Bob.
0:11.5	How you doing?
0:13.5	I'm okay.
0:14.9	How are you?
0:16.1	I am not complaining, as usual.
0:18.4	Let me introduce us.
0:19.4	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero
0:21.6	newsletter, and this is the non-zero podcast. You're Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the dispatch,
0:27.7	and I guess full-time publicist for it, judging by the fact that you've got a strategically
0:31.4	placed sign that says the dispatch right over your shoulder.
0:37.2	Yeah, that was a leftover from a conference we did.
0:39.9	And I figured why not have it behind me?
0:41.4	Just happens to be there.
0:42.6	That's just where it wound up.
0:44.1	Well, if that qualifies a full-time promoter,
0:47.5	then your standards for full-time promoter kind of low.
0:51.8	Well, this is my great failing in life.
0:55.3	Yeah, I've fallen down on the promotion job more than once.
0:59.7	But not today, because I'm going to mention the name of this podcast, again, just to drive
1:05.2	home, the fact that the conversation we're having is in commemoration of blogging heads TV, which used to be the
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