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The Trump Wannabees | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The GOP held their first presidential debate for the 2024 election cycle and the crowded stage was notable for a significant absence.
Former president…
2 years, 9 months ago
Drew Faust Remembers the Sixties, plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and Georgia | Start Making Sense
Drew Faust grew up in Virginia in the ’50’s, in the segregated south, in a family that was part of the white elite—and went on to make “necessary tro…
2 years, 9 months ago
Delegitimize The Supreme Court | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
This is the eighth and final episode of Contempt of Court, our podcast series about reforming the Supreme Court. On this episode, we’re going to talk…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Jewishness of "Oppenheimer" | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Christopher Nolen’s Oppenheimer, a biopic about the famed scientist who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb, is a surpr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Right-Wing Attacks on Small-Town Libraries; plus “The Snow Leopard” | Start Making Sense
Public Libraries are often wonderful places, but they have become targets of right-wing attack in the culture war. On this episode of the Start Makin…
2 years, 9 months ago
Basketball Butterfly Effect | Edge of Sports
This week we speak to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about what could have happened if the Detroit Pistons had drafted Carmelo Anthony instead of Dar…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stripping The Court of Its Power | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Instead of reforming how the Supreme Court uses its power, what if we took its power away?
Harvard Law School professor, Ryan Doerfler, and Michigan L…
2 years, 9 months ago
It’s a Barbie World But Is That a Good Thing? | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Barbie has smashed through the glass ceiling. Greta Gerwig’s new movie based on the popular Mattel doll is the big summer film of 2023. It’s made mor…
2 years, 9 months ago
Erwin Chemerinsky on The Trump Indictment, plus Katha Pollitt on “Barbie” | Start Making Sense
Should Trump have been charged with incitement of insurrection, or at least violence? What’s the line between free speech and incitement? If Trump si…
2 years, 9 months ago
How to Fix The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
The Supreme Court has a serious ethics problem—actually, ethics problems. The justices have been dogged by allegations of corruption. They’ve been pe…
2 years, 9 months ago