BhTV (video)

Will Trump get locked into war in Yemen? ... Competing instincts in Trump’s foreign policy team ... How should the restraint movement respond to Trump? ... Justin: Trump's pitch-perfect approach to Europe ... What happens if Trump pulls US troops from Europe? ...

Ross’s new book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious ... An argument for cosmic purpose ... The mysterious persistence of weird shit ... Does human consciousness point to something bigger? ... Tensions between science and Christian orthodoxy ... A few more words about consciousness ... A few more words about weirdness ... Why doesn’t the weirdness show up in controlled studies? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Jeet’s plans for Canadian resistance ... Trump 2.0: Making “autarkic imperialism” great again? ... The hidden logic of Trump’s tariffs ... The historical roots of Trumpism ... How Trump won the GOP civil war ... Heading to Overtime ...

Connor’s Cuba adventure ... Chinese-owned Manus AI makes waves ... Is Manus just a fancy ‘wrapper’ for US AI? ... Why Manus makes global AI cooperation more urgent ... Can Trump deport a green card holder over political speech? ... Making sense of Trump's Ukraine strategy ...

Does Paul have CDS (Chaos Desensitization Syndrome)? ... Worthwhile Canadian backlash ... Elon’s Tesla problem ... Trump 2.0’s free speech crackdown ... The primal psychology of Trump and Elon ... Bezos and university presidents bow to Trump ... Heading to Overtime ...

Is the chaos starting to subside? ... Trump’s tariff strategy (or lack thereof) ... Trump’s baffling, backfiring Canada obsession ... Elon’s darkly weird grandfather ... Has America gone full oligarchy? ... Heading to Overtime ...

What could go right with Trump’s foreign policy? ... Trump’s Bibi-pleasing Middle East path ... How would Europe-led defence of Europe work? ... What most miss about the Oval Office blowup ... Has relying on America doomed Ukraine? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Dan’s new paper, “Superintelligence Strategy” ... “Mutually assured AI malfunction” ... Does China see America’s AI policy as a grave threat? ... How likely is US-China conflict over superintelligence? ... How America’s chip war makes war over Taiwan more likely ... Why did China-hawkism sweep Silicon Valley? ... Can we avoid AI doom without global governance? ... The key points of Dan’s paper ... Heading to Overtime ...

Andrew’s new gig (and gifts) ... Play-by-play of the Oval Office blowup ... Zelensky’s and Trump’s obsessions ... What are Russia’s red lines? ... Guaranteeing Ukraine’s (and Europe’s) security ... Heading to Overtime ...

Introduction ... How the Pentagon budget got so big ... How to cut $60 billion in military spending this year ... The privatization of weapons acquisitions ... Prospects for military budget reform under Trump ...

Paul’s cold take on US-Canada relations ... How representative is representative government, really? ... Bob’s plan to end hockey fights ... A worthwhile Canadian initiative to dump Musk ... What makes James Bond James Bond? ... Bob’s reign as TV analysis king continues (claims Bob) ... Heading to Overtime ...

Intro ... Jack’s experience with presidential power ... Unpacking Trump’s Pentagon and DOJ purges ... Which legal battles could Trump win? ... The Trump-Musk chaos: bug or feature? ... How Trump is putting “unitary executive theory” into practice ... Is a unitary executive unconstitutional? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Intro and housekeeping ... Trump's very good, very bad week on Ukraine ... Trump vs his foreign policy team? ... Great-power competition and its discontents ... Musk runs roughshod over DC ...

Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability ... Is *a* singularity near? ... Nora: AI may take my job within two years ... The reason(ing) behind AI’s latest acceleration ... Thinking through the “chain-of-thought” process ... AI “thinking” vs human thinking ... Heading to Overtime ...

Van's new book, The Rivalry Peril ... What policymakers forget about the first Cold War ... The roots of the US-China cold war ... The end of globalization and the rise of economic nationalism ... How rivalry deepens inequality in both the US and China ...

What have Matt and Bill been up to? ... A Complete Unknown vs. Netflix ... Should we listen to more Joe Rogan? ... What does Mike Johnson's victory say about the GOP? ... Can Democrats recover? ...

The newly united state of Canada ... What’s Elon’s endgame? ... Ross Douthat gives doubting Paul pause ... Which AI ad won the Super Bowl? ... The real stakes of Elon’s OpenAI bid ... Trump 2.0's free speech hypocrisy ... Heading to Overtime ...

Musa’s track record as Trump-reader and his new book, We Have Never Been Woke ... The reason Trump won—twice ... Messaging that works for the working class ... Has the left lost the faith(ful)? ... Who is wokeness even for? ... Biden’s bad messaging ... Why elites failed to deliver on social justice ... Heading to Overtime ...

Housekeeping ... Making sense of the USAID cuts ... Trump's push for ethnic cleansing in Gaza ... How Trump's tariffs undermine US power ... Deep Research and the AI arms race ...

Paul’s new newsletter, AIStackDecrypted ... Sketchy DeepSeek narratives: debunked ... How connected are DeepSeek and the Chinese government? ... China, Meta, and the open source AI debate(s) ... Paul’s problem with AGI “takeoff” ... The real lesson to take from DeepSeek ... Did the chip war on China really backfire? ... Heading to Overtime ...