Exposing the Corporate "Mindfulness" Racket (w/ Ronald Purser)
"When the individualized self bears sole responsibility for its happiness and emotional wellbeing, failure is synonymous with failure of the self, not external conditions.” — Ron PurserRonald Purser i...
30 Loka 202342min
Understanding The Right's Never-Ending War to Destroy Social Security (w/ Alex Lawson)
Alex Lawson is the Executive Director of Social Security Works and the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. He has spent his career working to try to save Social Security from...
26 Loka 202346min
How To Hold The New York Times Accountable (w/ Margaret Sullivan)
How To Hold The New York Times Accountable (w/ Margaret Sullivan)Margaret Sullivan is one of the country’s most astute media critics. During her time as Public Editor of the New York Times (essentiall...
2 Touko 202340min
The Pseudoscience and Faux Feminism of Sobriety Memoirs (w/ Jennifer Dines)
“It’s not that hard to let yourself be led by something that doesn’t match up with your morals, when you’re desperate.” — Jennifer DinesJennifer Dines is a Boston-based schoolteacher, poet, and essayi...
24 Huhti 202342min
The Dysfunctions of Our "Democracy" and How To Fix Them (w/ Tom Geoghegan)
Thomas Geoghegan is a labor lawyer and writer whose latest book is The History of Democracy Has Yet To Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again. MSNBC's Chris Hayes says of the book: ...
17 Huhti 202330min
STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)
“There’s an old adage ‘He who forgets history is condemned to repeat it.’ But what’s missing in that phrase is that there are the people who are in charge of keeping your history. And they can make yo...
27 Maalis 20231h 7min
The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)
One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, recently imploded spectacularly. Its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, had been called "the next Warren Buffett" and was a Democratic megadonor as well ...
29 Marras 202247min
Why Socialism and Trans Liberation Need Each Other (w/ Shon Faye)
Shon Faye is the author of the book The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice For All, available from Verso. The title of the book is meant slightly ironically, because part of Faye's argument i...
29 Marras 202251min
