Episode 407 - Monday, July 30, 1979

Y'all reading Mel Gurtov's excellent foreign affairs blog, In the Human Interest? I know I am. Anyway, here's some Garfield or whatever.I was going to give you guys a picture of Fred Astaire here, but...

31 Jan 201717min

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power....

30 Jan 201721min

White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very much doubt whether black people were astounded—at least, in the same way. ...

29 Jan 201717min

The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes....

28 Jan 201718min

There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply do...

27 Jan 201721min

Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the ...

26 Jan 201712min

What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him ...

25 Jan 20179min

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting ...

24 Jan 201717min