Why Is the Pursuit of Money Such an American Obsession? (w/ Lewis Lapham)
Today Nathan is joined by legendary former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham. Lapham is the author of numerous books including Money and Class in America, Age of Folly, and Lapham's Rules of Influence. He ...
13 Tammi 202248min
Why All The Anti-Trans Arguments Are Ignorant Nonsense (w/ Julia Serano)
Julia Serano is a PhD molecular biologist, writer, and musician whose books include Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender ...
5 Tammi 20221h 3min
When YIMBYs Attack: Democratic Socialist Dean Preston on the San Francisco Housing Crisis
Dean Preston represents District 5 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A tenants' rights attorney and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, he was the first democratic socialist elect...
5 Tammi 202251min
Why Don't We Have Constitutional Rights Anymore? (w/ Aziz Huq)
Aziz Huq is an expert in constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school. He is the author of the book The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, available from Oxford University Press. Prof....
5 Tammi 202248min
What Is "Systemic Racism" and How Pervasive Is It?
Today's guest is Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University. Prof. Loury has had a distinguished career—he was the youngest-ever tenured Black economics professor at Harvard and is known ...
14 Joulu 202159min
Does the Right to Counsel Actually Exist In the U.S.?
Today's guest is Stephen Bright, one of the best criminal defense attorneys in the United States. Prof. Bright teaches at Yale Law School and Georgetown Law, but has spent most of his life working as ...
14 Joulu 202149min
Abortion in America, Part II: Diana Greene Foster on "The Turnaway Study"
In this, the second part of our look into the realities of abortion in the contemporary United States, Nathan talks to Prof. Diana Greene Foster, Director of Research at the Advancing New Standards in...
13 Joulu 202138min
Abortion in America: Carole Joffe on the "Obstacle Course" to Get Necessary Medical Care
Carol Joffe is one of the foremost experts on reproductive rights in the United States. A professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California,...
13 Joulu 202143min
