How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)
Jennifer Jacquet is not actually an evil corporate consultant. She's a professor in NYU's Department of Environmental Studies and deputy director of the school's Center for Environmental and Animal Pr...
13 Nov 202342min
How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson)
Van Jackson is a dissident among foreign policy intellectuals, a harsh critic of the infamous "Blob." His Un-Diplomatic newsletter is essential reading (and its accompanying podcast essential listenin...
10 Nov 202350min
How to Spot Pseudoscience About Sex Differences (w/ Cordelia Fine)
Cordelia Fine is a psychologist and philosopher of science whose work brilliantly demolishes myths about the "nature" of differences between men and women. Prof. Fine has written three books, A Mind o...
8 Nov 202350min
How to Respond to The Right—Introducing Nathan's New Book!
Today on the podcast: Nathan takes a turn as the guest, to discuss his new book Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments. Get your copy now! Responding to the Right goes thr...
6 Nov 20231h
What Living Under Jim Crow Was Like In New Orleans (w/ Adolph Reed)
“What I didn’t realize at the time was that what I was living through was the death paroxysms of the Jim Crow order.” — Adolph ReedProf. Adolph Reed Jr. has been called (by Cornel West) “the towering ...
3 Nov 202348min
Why Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet For The People: The Fight For Our Digital Future. Today he joins to discuss what's wrong with the internet and how we fix it. Ben helps us to think more clearly a...
1 Nov 202341min
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 Okt 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 Okt 202346min
