Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Domestic Deployment of the Military
In this new episode, I talk about America's long history of resenting domestic policing by the military especially when the military is used against citizen protesters, from the Boston Massacre to the...
23 Sep 202542min
Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering
After Texas's recent mid-decade partisan redistricting, representing a blatant power grab for the Republican Party undertaken at Trump's behest, I search for precedents and historical parallels and ex...
9 Sep 202541min
Back Door to War: A History of Undeclared and Unauthorized US Warfare
Last month, when the Trump regime allied with Israel in their Twelve-Day War and bombed Iran, there was much scrutiny of presidential war powers. In this episode, I look at the evolution of undeclared...
26 Aug 20251h 2min
A New Reassessment: Realism on Israel-Palestine
To conclude my series on the Israel-Palestine conflict, I look at Jewish presence in the Levant going all the way back to the Iron Age, the events leading to the founding of the modern State of Israel...
12 Aug 20251h
Project Esther and the Weaponization of Anti-Semitism
In this first part of a two-part series on the Israel-Palestine conflict, I start by looking at the Heritage Foundation's campaign to characterize any criticism of Israel or advocacy for Palestinians ...
29 Jul 202553min
Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis
In this episode, I discuss the Trump administration's war on higher education and place it within the context of the history of academic freedom and previous assaults on it. Get 3 months of premium w...
15 Jul 20251h 3min
License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religious Exemption, and the Misreading of the Bible
Here at the end of Pride, I want to discuss the long, bigoted history and false scriptural basis of religious opposition to LGBTQ rights, and the effort of the religious right to seek an exemption to ...
1 Jul 202550min
Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism
As Trump ramps up his immigration raids in California and brings the armed forces to bear against peaceful citizen protesters, I want to talk more about the long, racist history behind similar immigra...
17 Jun 202550min
