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The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism
Episode 340
Once upon a time the South was a solid Democratic block of votes. Many of those segregationist senators that Joe Biden recently talked about were in …
6 years, 8 months ago
The Most Heinous Serial Killer You've Never Heard Of
Episode 339
I know someone who is absolutely fascinated by true crime stories. She says that Silence of the Lambs is her Star Wars. And why not? Crime stories, e…
6 years, 9 months ago
A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race
Episode 338
It’s clear that like it or not, race will once again be the issue of our time. You’d think by now, we would at least the the language right. But mayb…
6 years, 9 months ago
20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot
Episode 337
From the moment that Jackie Kennedy branded the Kennedy presidency as Camelot, in an interview with author and historian Theodore White, royalty was …
6 years, 9 months ago
The Welfare Queen and Political Mythology
Episode 336
We all remember that Al Capone was ultimately busted on tax fraud, even though he had a long, violent and ugly criminal career. We see it play out in…
6 years, 9 months ago
The False Mythology of Roger Ailes
Episode 335
Many of you may have started watching the Showtime series, THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM, about Fox News founder Roger Ailes. The problem with it is,…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Loudest Voice in the Room
Episode 334
My 2014 conversation with Gabe Sherman on his then just-published book, THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM. It's a great preview for the Showtime ser…
6 years, 10 months ago
War Today: We Pay and They Serve
Episode 333
Once upon a time war had structure. There was a kind of narrative arc to war. A beginning, a middle and clear end. In the modern era, certainly since…
6 years, 10 months ago
Cities Represent the Ultimate Achievement of Mankind
Episode 332
Today, more than one-half of the world's population lives in cities. In every corner of the world, people are moving to cities at a rapid and geometr…
6 years, 10 months ago
Professor Ed Hess talks about Saving Capitalism
Episode 331
Never before in human history has so much change been so rapidly foisted on human beings. Not during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment or the Indust…
6 years, 11 months ago