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Back to SearchThe Exciting Rise of the New U.S. Leftist Movement (w/ Raina Lipsitz)
Episode 185
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 le…
3 years, 4 months ago
Why We Have To Teach Kids to Analyze and Debunk Propaganda
Episode 184
Sam Shain is a public school teacher whose book Education Revolution: Media Literacy for Political Awareness argues that K-12 students need to be equ…
3 years, 4 months ago
How the "Economic Style of Reasoning" Came to Dominate Social Policy
Episode 183
Prof. Elizabeth Popp Berman is the author of Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, which documents how …
3 years, 4 months ago
Why Is There an Israel-Palestine Conflict in the First Place?
Episode 183
Today, we see children killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, but anyone who gets their understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict from news repor…
3 years, 4 months ago
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War (Part II)
Episode 182
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.…
3 years, 5 months ago
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War (Part I)
Episode 181
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 volume…
3 years, 5 months ago
How to Spot Copaganda (w/ Alex Karakatsanis)
Episode 180
Alec Karakatsanis is one of the country's most forceful and persuasive critics of the criminal punishment system. Alec is the founder and executive d…
3 years, 5 months ago
Can The Minions Tell Us Anything?
Episode 179
"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 …
3 years, 6 months ago
Palestine Part II: Rights and Crimes in the Conflict Today
Episode 178
In our previous episode on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi, we discussed the early history of the conflict. Today we speak with Noura Erakat, human rig…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Enduring Moral Insight and Satirical Power of Charlie Chaplin and The Twilight Zone
Episode 177
Today we dive into old cinema and television, looking at the films of Charlie Chaplin and the television show The Twilight Zone, both of which have r…
3 years, 6 months ago