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How American Eugenics Fueled Nazi Euthanasia: Psychiatry's Forgotten Complicity in the Holocaust
Did American eugenics really fuel the murderous euthanasia programs of the Nazis? Yes, according to Susanne Paola Antonetta, author of The Devil’s Ca…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Chris Matthews on Robert F. Kennedy: Ten Reasons Why Bobby Still Matters
On November 20, 1925, Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. A hundred years later, Bobby might matter more than ever. Chris M…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
One Battle After Another in Hollywood: Why Gen Z Has Abandoned Cinema and What It Says About American Culture
25 movies and 0 hits: it’s been a particularly rough quarter for Hollywood. But as I discuss with the cultural commentator David Masciotra, it’s actu…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Student Debt as Modern American Serfdom: A Mother Stole $200,000 in Her Daughter's Name
It’s the ultimate financial nightmare. Kristin Collier, a young student in Minnesota, woke up one morning to discover that her mother had taken out $…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Keen on Hispanic America: How Latino TV Networks Reshaped American Politics and Culture
There are those who ask why so many Americans speak Spanish. But according to the Latino media entrepreneur and historian Javier Marin, you might as …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Is There An Orchestrated Moral Panic Against AI? Or Is This Just Another Figment of a Paranoid Silicon Valley?
The big news in Silicon Valley this week of a supposedly orchestrated “Panic Campaign” against AI. According to the researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt, the…
11 months ago
What Yogi Berra can teach Silicon Valley: From Tulip and Railway Manias to Dotcom and AI Bubbles
“Predictions are hard,” Yogi Berra once quipped, “especially about the future”. Yes they are. But in today’s AI boom/bubble, how exactly can we predi…
11 months ago
The Case for American Power: Why Hypocrisy is the Price of Idealism
America is not only a good country, but it can also make the world a better place. That’s the somewhat surprising conclusion of the progressive Washi…
11 months ago
Obama as Gorbachev and Trump as Yeltsin: How America is Like the Soviet Union Before Its Collapse
We’ve done shows before on how contemporary America resembles late-stage Soviet society. But none quite as intriguing as with the Russian-born, US-ba…
11 months ago
Dr Stranglove 2.0: Silicon Valley as the New Trillion Dollar Military-Industrial Complex
The world is a remake. Yesterday’s show featured the MAGA remake of The Handmaid’s Tale. Today it’s Dr Strangelove 2.0 and the remaking of the trilli…
11 months ago