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The Spectacle of Cruelty
Season 1 Episode 42
Join Samantha and guest Alan Elrod, president and CEO of the Pulaski Institution, as they talk about how the spectacle of deliberate cruelty—troops o…
1 year ago
Is the Fed Okay?
Season 1 Episode 41
Join Samantha and guest Maia Mindel as they talk about Trump's latest attack on the Federal Reserve, give some historical context for central bank in…
1 year ago
The Ongoing Immigration Crisis
Season 1 Episode 40
Join Samantha and guest Dara Lind, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council and former immigration reporter for Vox and ProPublica, as they …
1 year, 1 month ago
An Unsettled Age
Season 1 Episode 39
The future of the world order is more uncertain than it has been since the fall of the Soviet Union—which is to say, up for grabs. Join Samantha and …
1 year, 1 month ago
What Is Liberal Currents?
Season 1 Episode 38
People find us hard to categorize: are we emphatic liberals? Radical leftists? Crypto-libertarian infiltrators? Join Samantha and Liberal Currents ed…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Authoritarian Logic of Child Abuse
Join Samantha and guest Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords and Wild Faith, as they discuss Donald Trump's connections with Jeffrey Epstein, the …
1 year, 1 month ago
Strange Bedfellows
Season 1 Episode 36
In recent years, a number of prominent right-wingers have moved left dramatically. In particular, a surprising number of libertarians have abandoned …
1 year, 2 months ago
Tell Me a Story
Season 1 Episode 35
Join Samantha and author Robert Jackson Bennett as they discuss the power of fiction to shape politics, from 20th-century detective fiction to modern…
1 year, 2 months ago
Are Liberals Losing the Culture War?
Season 1 Episode 34
Andrew Breitbart argued long ago that "politics is downstream of culture." Is that true? Is there such a thing as liberal culture? Has Trump II revea…
1 year, 2 months ago
What Is America?
Season 1 Episode 33
According to Vice President Vance, America is not an idea: America is a nation. A people. And there are some here who don't belong. Join Samantha and…
1 year, 2 months ago