San Francisco De-Angstified: A Father-Daughter Conversation
San Francisco is often painted as a city in crisis by conservative politicians and pundits, but does that picture hold up when you actually live there? In this special episode, political scientist Mic...
6 Okt 20251h 1min
Climate Change and Glimmers of Hope: A Conversation with Courtney Cooper
Environmental policy professor Dr. Courtney Cooper joins American Angst to untangle climate science, local vs. federal solutions, and why adaptation and mitigation aren’t either/or options. With Dr. M...
29 Sep 20251h 13min
Trump Loyalty Shakedown: Free Speech’s New Fault Line
Is America’s free-speech problem moving from online pile-ons to state-pressured loyalty tests? Political scientist and philosopher Dr. Michael Bailey makes the case that we’re drifting into a new, int...
25 Sep 202551min
Why Don't We Trust the Experts? Science and the Crisis of Authority
Physicist and astronomer Dr. Todd Timberlake joins the conversation to explore the modern crisis of expertise. What does it mean to trust science when experts sometimes get things wrong? How do peer r...
22 Sep 202549min
Charlie Kirk's Tragic Death and the Temptation of Collective Blame
Political philosopher Dr. Michael Bailey and host Dale McConkey reflect on the public murder of Charlie Kirk and a week already heavy with 9/11 remembrances. With humility about their limits and the f...
12 Sep 202551min
Trump Derangement Syndrome: Sincerity, Bulls**t, and the Death of Dialogue
Political philosopher Michael Bailey joins host Dale McConkey to unpack “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a window into America’s fractured political discourse. They begin with how shifting cultural gua...
9 Sep 202545min
American Inequality: From Gilded Age Tycoons to Tech Oligarchs
In this episode of American Angst 101, host Dale McConkey hands the reins to Michael Bailey, political philosopher at Berry College, for a thoughtful deep dive into the growing problem of inequality i...
3 Sep 202556min
Campaigns, Congress, and Cattle: A Conversation with Candidate Shawn Harris
In this special episode of American Angst, political scientist Michael Bailey and host Dale McConkey welcome retired Brigadier General Shawn Harris, a Democratic candidate for Georgia’s 14th Congressi...
29 Aug 20251h 6min
