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Back to SearchJohn Judis Has Advice for Young Leftist Mayors in Blue Cities like New York and Seattle
Season 2 Episode 7
Author, journalist, and political analyst John B. Judis cut his political teeth in the (briefly) ascendant New Left politics of the late 1960s and ea…
14 hours ago
Why Does William Deresiewicz Believe the Culture of Elite Universities Elected Trump?
Season 2 Episode 6
A former Yale English professor, William Deresiewicz has become one of the country’s most erudite and insightful commentators on the cultural trends …
1 week, 3 days ago
Anne Applebaum (Live) on Resisting Authoritarianism Here and Abroad
Season 2 Episode 5
Authoritarianism is on the march, not just here in the US but across the globe. It hardly bears repeating that we live in perilous and troubled times…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Ruy Teixeira on the Democrats’ Cultural Cosmopolitanism Problem
Season 2 Episode 4
In 2002, political analyst and commentator Ruy Teixeira co-authored The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book, published near the zenith of the Bush…
1 month ago
Best of BCB: Why Is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?
We spoke with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan last April about his groundbreaking approach to municipal governance and the new directions he wants to take …
1 month, 1 week ago
Best Of BCB: Freddie deBoer on Why Blue City Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment
While David is away, we are reposting some early days Blue City Blues episodes that many of our more recent listeners may have missed. We thought thi…
1 month, 1 week ago
Tricia Romano on the Village Voice, Alt Journalism, and the Rise of New York City’s Countercultures
Season 2 Episode 3
In 1955, three men in the bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village got together to form what they thought would be a local community newspaper. But the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Neil Gong on How Class Dynamics Shape Our Approach to the Mentally Ill on the Streets of Los Angeles
Season 2 Episode 2
The pervasiveness of untreated mental illness on the streets of blue cities – about 20 percent of the homeless population in the United States is sev…
2 months ago
Best of BCB: Sherman Alexie Talks “Monsters,” “Colonizers” and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”
We invited writer Sherman Alexie on to weigh in on recent cultural trends in blue cities.
Alexie has long been recognized as one of the country’s mo…
2 months, 1 week ago
Kelsey Piper on the Shameful Truth that Mississippi Beats Blue Cities on Educational Equity
Season 2 Episode 1
This week we take a close look at the damning decline in the quality of public education in progressive cities where, as Sandeep puts it, the "glarin…
2 months, 2 weeks ago