Trump’s Next-Level Corruption (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:30 Paul aces Bob’s worthwhile Canadian pop-quiz 5:48 Trump’s corruption: Illegal or just unprecedentedly gross? 10:49 Elon bows out 16:40 Trump’s crusade against elite colleges continues 24:41 Is JD Vance more dangerous than Trump? 31:52 Are AI doomers walking their talk? 40:44 Trump makes Canada a golden offer 45:53 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 29, 2025.

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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.
0:30.1	Hello, Paul.
0:31.9	Hello, Bob.
0:32.8	How are you?
0:34.0	Oh, I'm doing great.
0:35.1	Let me introduce this.
0:36.0	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero. This is the non-zero podcast to which people should subscribe and rate review and so on. You are Paul Bloom. One of the world's most famous, I would say, worthwhile Canadian psychologists and also author,
0:58.5	Man of Letters, Bon Vival.
1:01.1	Oh, my.
1:03.1	Go on.
1:05.4	Renaissance, man.
1:08.1	I wouldn't go that far.
1:09.0	But publisher of what is certainly the world's most famous newsletter titled Small Potatoes,
1:16.5	whoever's in second place is way below you on the totem pole there, Paul.
1:21.2	But I digress.
1:23.5	So do you know.
1:24.5	Because I can tell by looking at your face that this is a source of discomfort for you.
1:29.2	So I'm going to change the subject.
1:31.1	Since when do you stop when something's a source of discomfort for me?
1:34.4	Well, you're right.
1:35.3	The truth is I didn't see enough discomfort.
1:37.2	So I'm changing the subject.
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