The Exciting Rise of the New U.S. Leftist Movement (w/ Raina Lipsitz)
Raina Lipsitz is a journalist whose book The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics profiles the young leftists who are bringing socialism back to American ...
4 Nov 202240min
Why We Have To Teach Kids to Analyze and Debunk Propaganda
Sam Shain is a public school teacher whose book Education Revolution: Media Literacy for Political Awareness argues that K-12 students need to be equipped with the ability to analyze media and spot mi...
4 Nov 202241min
How the "Economic Style of Reasoning" Came to Dominate Social Policy
Prof. Elizabeth Popp Berman is the author of Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, which documents how a style of reasoning that heavily emphasizes effici...
4 Nov 202244min
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War (Part II)
Today we return to our interview with Dr. W.D. Ehrhart, for the second part of a conversation on what Americans should know about the war in Vietnam.The photograph is of Dr. Ehrhart himself in Vietnam...
4 Okt 202234min
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War (Part I)
Dr. W.D. Ehrhart is a Vietnam veteran, poet, teacher, and essayist who was active in Vietnam Veterans Against The War and has written multiple volumes of memoirs about his observations of the war and ...
4 Okt 202231min
How to Spot Copaganda (w/ Alex Karakatsanis)
Alec Karakatsanis is one of the country's most forceful and persuasive critics of the criminal punishment system. Alec is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, and as a civil right...
4 Okt 202241min
Can The Minions Tell Us Anything?
"I will never again spend money on a Minion movie. ... I surprised myself. I went into this a huge fan of the Minions. And I thought 'Oh, they're so popular, we should talk about them on the left.' An...
23 Sep 202259min
Palestine Part II: Rights and Crimes in the Conflict Today
In our previous episode on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi, we discussed the early history of the conflict. Today we speak with Noura Erakat, human rights lawyer and professor at Rutgers University, who...
23 Sep 202242min
