The Golden Age of Blogging (and now) (Robert Wright & Ross Douthat)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ross to Bob: In a parallel universe, you are a media god. ... The non-zero-sum nature of disagreement in the blog days ... Ross’s time as an Atlantic blogging big-shot ... Will Twitter-style discourse last forever? ... Technology, politics, and polarization ... Ross’s niche in the conservative ecosystem ... Globalization vs. the (new) “new nationalism” ... Can the world afford a Cold War II? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.0	Hi, Ross.
0:09.6	Hey, Bob. How are you doing?
0:11.0	I'm doing okay. How are you?
0:13.3	Hanging in there.
0:14.6	Well, actually, that's all I'm doing.
0:18.2	Let me introduce us.
0:20.2	You're Ross Douthful,ous columnist from New York Times,
0:24.0	author of a number of books most recently, I guess the Deep Places, A Memoir of Illness and
0:31.1	Discovery. I'm Robert Wright. This is what until very recently was the podcast called The Right Show. Now it is the
0:40.1	non-zero podcast and now it is on the YouTube channel called Non-Zero, whereas previously it was on
0:49.5	the YouTube channel called Blogging Heads. And this is not unrelated to this conversation I'm having with you.
0:58.4	Because you were one of the earliest blogging heads. Blogging Heads TV, you smile.
1:05.7	I was indeed, yes.
1:07.3	Is if that's not a deep honor that you should reflect on with utmost gravity.
1:12.4	You're not making light of your place in narrowcast history, are you?
1:17.2	No, no.
1:18.1	Not in the slightest.
1:19.3	I mean, I do, you know, looking back, I feel that, honestly, the entire blogging heads empire is sort of owed some sort of massive you know royalty
1:32.2	driven debt or something from the podcasting economy because I feel like I feel like we were we
1:38.0	were pioneers who somehow failed to fail to fully cat we were like the guys you know we were
1:44.0	at Sutter's Creek before they started finding the gold in the water, something, something like that.
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