The Chauncey DeVega Show

By Chauncey DeVega

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The Chauncey DeVega Show is the official podcast of Salon.com politics writer Chauncey DeVega. On a weekly basis the show features a relaxed and free-form conversation with artists, authors, musicians, researchers, academics, journalists, activists, as well as Hollywood actors and directors.

Episode Date
Ep. 403: Glenn Kirschner Warns That Donald Trump and the Republican Party MAGA Fascists Are Trying to Murder American Democracy
Apr 11, 2024
Ep. 402: Heather Cox Richardson Warns That We Can Still Stop Dictator Trump and the American Fascist Movement – If We Have the Will and Fortitude to Do That Hard Work
Mar 07, 2024
Ep. 401: The Vince McMahon Sex Scandal Allegations Are About So Much More Than Professional Wrestling
Feb 13, 2024
Ep. 400: What Would America Be Like If Donald Trump's Jan. 6 Coup Had Succeeded?
Jan 23, 2024
Ep. 399: The Truth Report -- Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Trumpism Is a Public Health Emergency Which is Reaching Terminal Levels For American Democracy and Society
Jan 12, 2024
Ep. 398: The Fog Monster -- A Very Special Christmas Story Episode
Dec 25, 2023
Ep. 397: On Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell Went to Work and Did His Job By Defending American Democracy
Dec 13, 2023
Ep. 396: A Reflective, Somewhat Serious, Funny, Titillating and Advice-Filled Special Thanksgiving Weekend Episode
Nov 24, 2023
Ep. 395: Life Lessons, Reflections on Coming of Age in the 1980s, and "When the Game Was War"
Nov 07, 2023
Ep. 394: 35 Years Later John Carpenter's Film "They Live" Came True -- And We Are The Ghouls
Oct 10, 2023
Ep. 393: The Strange, Bizarre, and Curious Ways of Whiteness and Black "Conservatives" in the Age of Trump
Sep 16, 2023
Ep. 392: Rich Logis Escaped the Trump - MAGA Cult -- Heed His Warnings About Its Power and Extreme Danger to America
Aug 30, 2023
Ep. 391: What do Donald Trump’s Reactions to Being Indicted for the Crimes of Jan. 6 and Beyond Reveal About His Mental and Emotional Health?
Aug 17, 2023
Ep. 390: Tim Wise on Ron DeSantis’ War on African-American History and the Enduring Power of Donald Trump over White America
Aug 02, 2023
Ep. 389: This is Not a Tragic Mulatto Story: CNN's John Blake on His New Book "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew"
Jul 19, 2023
Ep. 388: What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July? Historian David Blight on the American Prophet Frederick Douglass
Jul 04, 2023
Ep. 387: Prison Journalist John J. Lennon on Life Lessons and How Writing Made Him a Better Person
Jun 22, 2023
Ep. 386: Jonathan Eig Takes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Down Off The Monument and Makes Him Real
May 29, 2023
Ep. 385: The Truth Report -- Mark Jacob Explains How America's Mainstream News Media Surrendered to Donald Trump and The Republican Fascist Movement
May 25, 2023
Ep. 384: The Eclectic Star Wars Jerry Springer Animal Friends Episode
May 10, 2023
Ep. 383: Jason Van Tatenhove Reflects on the Perils of Right-Wing Radicalization and How He Found Himself a Leading Member of the Oath Keepers
Apr 25, 2023
Ep. 382: Donald Trump is Not Going Away Because He is the Worst of American Culture Vomited Out
Mar 31, 2023
Ep. 381: America is Sick With Diabolical Amnesia and Evil Forgetting
Mar 15, 2023
Ep. 380: "The Other Side of Prospect" and Gun Violence in the Shadow of Yale University
Feb 28, 2023
Ep. 379: Chris Hedges Warns That "The News" and "The Truth" are Not The Same Thing
Feb 14, 2023
Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?
Jan 31, 2023
Ep. 377: Brian K. Vaughan Reflects on the Return of His Beloved Graphic Novel Series "Saga"/Paul Breines on Life Lessons Learned From His Time as a Freedom Rider in the Civil Rights Movement
Jan 16, 2023
Ep. 376: The Black American Civil Rights Movement Was One of The Greatest "Military" Campaigns and Insurgencies in History
Jan 10, 2023
Ep. 375: Separating Fact From Fiction and Myth About Vladimir Putin and the War in Ukraine
Dec 14, 2022
Ep. 374: Reflecting on Gratitude and Thankfulness on This Thanksgiving Day 2022
Nov 24, 2022
Ep. 373: The Republican Party's "Red Tide" of Fascist Sewage Didn't Fully Drown the American People
Nov 16, 2022
Ep. 372: American Democracy and Freedom are on the Ballot in the 2022 Midterm Elections
Nov 07, 2022
Ep. 371: Baynard Woods Reflects on What Happens When You Confront and Try to Disown Whiteness
Oct 31, 2022
Ep. 370: From Pat Buchanan and the Culture Wars of the 1990s to the Age of Trump and American Neofascism and Beyond
Oct 13, 2022
Ep. 369: "5 Days at Memorial" and How Doctors Decided Who Lived and Died During Hurricane Katrina
Sep 26, 2022
Ep. 368: It is Almost Impossible to Escape America's Poverty Trap
Sep 12, 2022
Ep. 367: The Truth Report -- The South Side of Chicago is Not a Problem to be Solved, It is a Home for the American Spirit
Sep 07, 2022
Ep. 366: Nuclear Espionage? More Proof That Donald Trump is The Worst President in American History and a Traitor
Aug 16, 2022
Ep. 365: Marvel Comics Writer Jason Aaron Shares His Love of Great Storytelling in Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Professional Wrestling
Jul 31, 2022
Ep. 364: The Truth Report -- Eddie Glaude Explains That America is in Great Pain and on a Horrible Journey and White Racial Innocence Will Not Save It
Jul 21, 2022
Ep. 363: Baz Luhrmann’s Great New Movie "Elvis" is Much More Than The Sum of Its Parts
Jul 12, 2022
Ep. 362: Jeff Sharlet’s Journey into the Dark Heart of the American Fascist Nightmare Fever Dream
Jun 27, 2022
Ep. 361: Your "Hashtag Activism", "Likes", "Shares", and "Tweets" Will Not Save You From the Fascist Nightmare or Other Political and Societal Disasters
Jun 13, 2022
Ep. 360: Confronting The Raw Truth About The White Supremacist Terrorist Attack on The Black Community in Buffalo
May 18, 2022
Ep. 359: The Battle to Save American Democracy From the Republican-Fascists Will Be Long and Difficult -- And Quitting Is Not an Option
May 03, 2022
Ep. 358: Honoring and Remembering Eric Boehlert
Apr 19, 2022
Ep. 357: The Truth Report -- Chris Hedges Reflects on the New Censorship and Authoritarianism of the 21st Century
Apr 09, 2022
Ep. 356: Advice on Navigating and Surviving the Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Harm Caused by Living in a White Racist Society
Mar 24, 2022
Ep. 355: What is it Like When the Republican-Fascist "Critical Race Theory" Witch Hunt Comes After You?
Mar 07, 2022
Ep. 354: Life Lessons From General Smedley Butler, the (first) Jan. 6 Coup Plot, and How War is a Racket
Feb 15, 2022
Ep. 353: The Truth Report -- Donald Trump and the Republican Neofascists Have Pushed America to the Brink of a Second Civil War
Feb 06, 2022
Ep. 352: Racism Will Bring America's Ultimate Destruction
Jan 20, 2022
Ep. 351: New Year's Eve 2021 Potpourri -- 1980s Cold War Action Movies, the Meaning of a Good Death, and What Troubles Await America and the World in 2022 and Beyond
Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 350: The Life Wisdom of Artist Winfred Rembert and His Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Dec 27, 2021
Ep. 349: There is No "Nice" or "Kind" Way to Warn the American People About the Rising Fascist Tide and Disaster
Dec 08, 2021
Ep. 348: Are Terrible People Attracted to Power? Or Does Power Make Them Terrible?
Nov 23, 2021
Ep. 347: The Truth Report -- Tim Wise Explains How The Jim Crow Republicans "Critical Race Theory" Bogeyman is Powered by White Rage
Nov 09, 2021
Ep. 346: Denis Villeneuve’s New Film "Dune" and the White Savior Problem
Oct 31, 2021
Ep. 345: How the Jim Crow Republicans are Going to Steal the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential Elections
Oct 22, 2021
Ep. 344: Remembering Sociologist James Loewen
Oct 11, 2021
Ep. 343: How Do You Decide the Financial Value of a Human Life?
Oct 05, 2021
Ep. 342: Donald Trump is Not Going Away -- No Matter How Much You Wish He Would
Sep 20, 2021
Ep. 341: Deconstructing The "New" Candyman Film -- Is it a Masterpiece or Something Else Entirely?
Sep 06, 2021
Ep. 340: "War Made Easy" and the Pitfalls and Lies of American Empire and its Forever Wars
Aug 25, 2021
Ep. 339: S.A. Cosby on Life Lessons, Masculinity, Writing, and the Road to "Blacktop Wasteland"
Aug 04, 2021
Ep. 338: Anthea Butler Explains That White Christianity Cannot be Properly Separated From The Realities of White Supremacy
Jul 23, 2021
Ep. 337: Dr. Aruna Khilanani Dared to Tell Dangerous Truths About Race, Whiteness, and Psychopathology
Jul 15, 2021
Ep. 336: On This July 4th Independence Day, America's Democracy is on Life Support
Jul 04, 2021
Ep. 335: Hakeem Oluseyi Reflects on His Quantum Life and Journey from the Streets to the Stars
Jun 30, 2021
Ep. 334: On UFOs, Trump's Coup, QAnon, Ancient Aliens, and Tucker Carlson
Jun 18, 2021
Ep. 333: Chris Matthews is Worried About the Future of American Democracy
Jun 08, 2021
Ep. 332: The Truth Report Sneak Preview -- What Will Happen When the United States and China Finally Go to War
May 31, 2021
Ep. 331: The Cyberweapons Arms Race and How the World Ends
May 19, 2021
Ep. 330: Jesus and John Wayne -- Guns, God, Masculinity and the Christian Fascist Assault on American Democracy
May 04, 2021
Ep. 329: Dave Grossman on "Killology" and America's Out of Control Police
Apr 25, 2021
Ep. 328: Why Can't You Lose Weight? The Processed Food Industry Has Weaponized Your Hunger
Apr 15, 2021
Ep. 327: Jeff Sharlet Reflects on Navigating and Surviving the American Dream-Nightmare
Apr 01, 2021
Ep. 326: Why Do People Kill? Lt Joe Kenda Explains The "Killer Triggers"
Mar 23, 2021
Ep. 325: "Mindfulness" Will Not Save You From The Pandemic or Anything Else
Mar 15, 2021
Ep. 324: "Judas and the Black Messiah" is a Marvelous and Flawed Film
Mar 01, 2021
Ep. 323: The American News Media And a Crisis of Journalistic Imagination
Feb 17, 2021
Ep 322: Dr Carl Hart Reflects on Freedom and Drug Use For Grown-Ups
Feb 09, 2021
Ep. 321: The Truth Report Sneak Preview -- Dr Justin Frank Warns That Donald Trump's Political Cult Members Are Experiencing a Mass Psychological Emergency
Feb 04, 2021
Ep. 320: The American People Will Not be Able to Escape The Age of Trump and Its Evil Shadow
Jan 26, 2021
Ep. 319: How the American Mainstream News Media Enabled Donald Trump's Coup Attack on the U.S. Capitol
Jan 18, 2021
Ep. 318: Sneak Preview -- The Truth Report: Tim Wise on White Privilege and Trump's Coup Attack on the US Capitol
Jan 13, 2021
Ep. 317: Dr. Cornel West Reflects on Trump's Fascist Coup Assault on the Capitol Building and America's Long Catastrophe
Jan 11, 2021
Ep. 316: Futurist John Feffer on His Hopes and Worries for America and the World in the Year 2021 and Beyond
Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 315: America is Now an Undead Country Whose Fantasies and Lies About Itself Have Now Been Vanquished
Dec 25, 2020
Ep. 314: What Will Donald Trump do Next? Start a TV Network and Open a Theme Park
Dec 15, 2020
Ep. 313: Poet Nikki Giovanni Reflects on Living a Life of Truth-Telling, Mortality, and the Ultimate Emptiness of White Supremacy
Dec 08, 2020
Ep. 312: The Truth Report -- Wajahat Ali Has Spent Several Years "Reaching Out" to Trump Supporters -- And It Did Not Go Well
Dec 05, 2020
Ep. 311: Ace Atkins on Race, Writing Bestselling Crime Novels, and the "New South"
Nov 26, 2020
Ep. 310: Thom Hartmann Counsels That Joe Biden May be The Last Chance to Save American Democracy/Chauncey DeVega Reflects on the 2020 Election and Joe Biden's Victory
Nov 14, 2020
Ep. 309: Election Day 2020 -- Planning for the Worst and Hoping for the Best
Nov 03, 2020
Ep. 308: The Truth Report -- The American People are Living in Donald Trump's Horrible Reality TV Show And Cannot Escape It
Nov 02, 2020
Ep 307: The Truth Report -- Timothy Snyder Warns That as Election Day 2020 Approaches America is in The Midst of a Slow-Motion Reichstag Fire Emergency
Nov 02, 2020
Ep. 306: Donald Trump's Followers Fear the Freedom and Humanity of People Who are Not Like Them
Oct 28, 2020
Ep. 305: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
Oct 21, 2020
Ep. 304: Philosopher Cornel West Reflects on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and Justice
Oct 13, 2020
Ep. 303: Donald Trump Won the First Debate Against Joe Biden -- and Will Steal the 2020 Election Using Violence and the Courts
Oct 01, 2020
Ep. 302: Rev. Al Sharpton Warns That Donald Trump is a Dirty Street Fighter Which is Why Joe Biden and The Democrats Don't Know How to Defeat Him
Sep 30, 2020
Ep. 301: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Put America's Multiracial Democracy on Life Support
Sep 21, 2020
Ep. 300: To Save America the Republican Party and Its Policies Must Be Burned to the Ground
Sep 08, 2020
Ep. 299: The Republican Party is Dying Because There Are Not Enough White People
Aug 31, 2020
Ep. 298: The Truth Report -- Donald Trump's Scheme to Steal the 2020 Presidential Election is Much Bigger Than Just The U.S. Mail
Aug 25, 2020
Ep. 297: President Joe Biden's First 100 Days and a Return to Normalcy for the American People
Aug 17, 2020
Ep. 296: Donald Trump Should Be Criminally Prosecuted for His Willfully Negligent Response to The Pandemic
Aug 06, 2020
Ep. 295: The Truth Report -- Donald Trump is Bullying the American People
Jul 31, 2020
Ep. 294: Donald Trump is Using The American People as Fuel For His Fascist Political Machine
Jul 25, 2020
Ep. 293: The Rhetorical Genius of the Demagogue Donald Trump
Jul 15, 2020
Ep. 292: Is It Ever Appropriate For White People to Wear "Blackface?"
Jul 04, 2020
Ep. 291: Cornel West Explains How George Floyd is a Martyr and The Struggle Ahead Will be Long and Perilous
Jun 26, 2020
Ep. 290: Rev. William Barber II Reflects on the Police Murder of George Floyd and America's Moral Reckoning in the Age of Trump
Jun 18, 2020
Ep 289: The Truth Report -- Greg Palast Warns That The Georgia Democratic Primary Was a Preview of How Donald Trump Will Steal The 2020 Presidential Election
Jun 13, 2020
Ep. 288: "Implicit Bias" Didn't Murder George Floyd, "Old Fashioned Racism" Did
Jun 03, 2020
Ep. 287: The Truth Report -- Fintan O'Toole Explains How the United States in the Age of Trump's Pandemic is a Pathetic and Pitiable Nation
May 28, 2020
Ep. 286: The Pandemic is the First of Many Disasters That Will Change the World As We Know It
May 21, 2020
Ep. 285: From Donald Trump's Fake Pandemic "Protests" to a Second American Civil War
May 12, 2020
Ep. 284: Ben Fountain Reflects on the Surreal Reality That is Life in the Age of Trump's Pandemic
May 03, 2020
Ep. 283: Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan Members Have Surrendered Their Robes and Hoods to Daryl Davis
Apr 23, 2020
Ep. 282: Don Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American Masculinity
Apr 16, 2020
Ep. 281: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Coronavirus Plague Much Worse
Apr 07, 2020
Ep. 280: The Truth Report -- Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and World
Mar 31, 2020
Ep. 279: How Donald Trump and the Other Plutocrats Will Use the Coronavirus to Make Life Even Worse for Working Class and Poor Americans
Mar 24, 2020
Ep. 278: The Coronavirus and Social Inequality in America
Mar 15, 2020
Ep. 277: Rachel Bitecofer Explains Why Bernie Sanders Has a Better Chance Than Joe Biden of Beating Donald Trump
Mar 07, 2020
Ep. 276: Greg Palast Explains How Donald Trump and His Republican Party Will Steal the 2020 Presidential Election at the Ballot Box
Mar 01, 2020
Ep. 275: The Truth Report -- "Star Trek's" Walter Koenig Reflects on Humanity's Future, Hope, and Despair in the Age of Trump
Feb 28, 2020
Ep. 274: Tochi Onyebuchi on His New Book "Riot Baby", Black Revenge Fantasies, and Freeing Himself From the White Gaze
Feb 23, 2020
Ep. 273: The Truth Report -- After Impeachment Donald Trump is the Jim Jones of American Presidents
Feb 16, 2020
Ep. 272: Vince Houghton on Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board
Feb 08, 2020
Ep. 271: How "Revolutionary Love" and "Radical Empathy" Can Help Stop America From Destroying Itself
Feb 01, 2020
Ep. 270: Are Donald Trump and His Inner Circle Manipulating the Stock Market For Their Own Personal Gain?
Jan 24, 2020
Ep. 269: Why the Democrats Must Embrace the Great Legacy of FDR and Other True Progressives and Liberals to Defeat Donald Trump in 2020
Jan 17, 2020
Ep. 268: Donald Trump's Authoritarianism Report Card
Jan 09, 2020
Ep. 267: New Year's 2020 Goals, Resolutions, Reflections and Well-Being in Challenging Times
Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 266: Deconstructing a Very Disappointing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker/Christmas, Santa Claus, the KKK and Jessie Jackson
Dec 25, 2019
Ep. 265: The True History of MKUltra, LSD, and the CIA's Poisoner in Chief
Dec 20, 2019
Ep. 264: How Neoliberalism Uses "Mindfulness" to Create Compliant and Weak People/The Politics of Limbic Capitalism, Pleasure, and Addiction
Dec 13, 2019
Ep. 263: Chris Hedges Warns That Impeaching Donald Trump Will Not Save America's Dying Empire
Dec 05, 2019
Ep. 262: David Cay Johnston Connects the Dots Between the Ukraine Scandal, Donald Trump the De Facto Crime Family Boss, and Impeachment
Nov 28, 2019
Ep. 261: The Truth Report -- Timothy Snyder Warns the Resistance That Just Opposing Donald Trump is Not Enough They Need to Offer a Better Vision of America's Future
Nov 21, 2019
Ep. 260: Christian Picciolini Reflects on His Descent Into White Supremacist Violence and How He Escaped
Nov 14, 2019
Ep. 259: "Never Trump" Patriot Tom Nichols Reflects on What It Was Like to be Called "Human Scum" by Donald Trump
Nov 07, 2019
Ep. 258: Dr. Cornel West on Maintaining Hope in the Time of Struggle and Darkness that is the Age of Trump
Oct 31, 2019
Ep. 257: Walter Mosley Reflects on How Words are Like Music, the TV series "Snowfall", and His Friend John Singleton
Oct 26, 2019
Ep. 256: Kevin Levin Exposes the Lie and Whitewashed History of So-Called "Black Confederate Soldiers" and the American Civil War
Oct 18, 2019
Ep. 255: Philip Zimbardo Explains the Psychology of Evil Inside of Trump's Concentration Camps
Oct 10, 2019
Ep. 254: The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega: Dr. Justin Frank Explains the Real Reason that Donald Trump Hates the Ukraine Scandal Whistleblower
Oct 02, 2019
Ep. 253: Ibram X. Kendi Explains How to Be an Antiracist
Sep 26, 2019
Ep. 252: Christopher Leonard on "Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America"
Sep 09, 2019
Ep. 251: The Chosen One -- From Pat Robertson and The 700 Club to Donald Trump the Christian Fascist
Aug 28, 2019
Ep. 250: Chris Arnade on Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America/Sam Quinones on Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Aug 19, 2019
Ep. 249: Dr. Justin Frank Warns That Donald Trump's Mental Pathologies are Encouraging a Plague of Right-wing Violence in America
Aug 11, 2019
Ep. 248: Tim Alberta on "American Carnage" and How Donald Trump Seduced a Very Eager and Willing Republican Party
Aug 06, 2019
Ep. 247.5: The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega: Tim Wise on White Rage, Donald Trump, and America's "Race War"
Aug 02, 2019
Ep. 247: "Babylon 5" Creator J. Michael Straczynski on Adversity, Triumph and His New Autobiography "Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood"
Aug 01, 2019
Ep. 246.5: The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega: Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Donald Trump is Emotionally Empty Inside and Spiraling Even More Out of Control
Jul 24, 2019
Ep. 246: Joy-Ann Reid Explains How Donald Trump Represents Everything Wrong With America
Jul 22, 2019
Ep. 245: Eve Ensler on Righteous Anger, Forgiveness and Her New Book "The Apology"
Jul 14, 2019
Ep. 244: Human Rights Attorney Hope Frye on the Evils She Witnessed Inside of Trump's Concentration Camps
Jul 07, 2019
Ep. 243: Bryan Edward Hill on "American Carnage" and the Age of Trump
Jul 01, 2019
Ep. 242: Michael Wolff on "Siege: Trump Under Fire"/Dr. John Gartner on Donald Trump the Mad King
Jun 22, 2019
Ep. 241: Jared Diamond on His New Book "Upheaval' and How Countries Choose to Succeed or Fail
Jun 18, 2019
Ep. 240.5: Introducing The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega: Dr. Bandy Lee on How the Mueller Report Shows That Donald Trump is Mentally Unfit and Should Have His Presidential Powers Taken Away
Jun 13, 2019
Ep. 240: W. Kamau Bell on Truth-Telling in This Divided United Shades of America
Jun 06, 2019
Ep. 239: Ben Fountain Explains How American Democracy is Broken and the Country is Burning
Jun 01, 2019
Ep. 238: Malcolm Nance Warns That Post-Mueller Report America May Not Survive Donald Trump's Assaults on Democracy
May 23, 2019
Ep. 237: Is Game of Thrones Racist and Sexist?
May 19, 2019
Ep. 236: Ira Steven Behr Reflects on the Legacy and Meaning of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the new documentary What We Left Behind
May 12, 2019
Ep. 235: Jonathan Metzl on Being Targeted by neo-Nazis/Tim Wise on White Privilege and White Christian Terrorists
May 04, 2019
Ep. 234: Kathleen Belew Explains the Long History of the White Power Movement and its Global Plans for "Race War"
Apr 27, 2019
Ep. 233: Jonathan Metzl Explains How Donald Trump's Voters are Dying of Whiteness
Apr 21, 2019
Ep. 232: Robert Reich Explains That Donald Trump is a Gangster Capitalist Tyrant and It is the Young People Who Will Save America
Apr 13, 2019
Ep. 231: Exploring the Politics and Meaning of Jordan Peele's New Film "Us"
Apr 05, 2019
Ep. 230: Laurence Tribe Explains Why Robert Mueller and Impeachment Will Not Save America From Donald Trump
Mar 25, 2019
Ep. 229: Tim Wise on White Privilege and the Varsity Blues College Cheating Scandal
Mar 22, 2019
Ep. 228: Tim Wise on the New Zealand Mosque Massacres and the Violence of White Privilege
Mar 16, 2019
Ep. 227: Chris Hedges on Bernie Sanders' "Race Problem" and America's Broken Politics of Spectacle and Corruption
Mar 08, 2019
Ep. 226: Vegas Tenold on the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Mar 02, 2019
Ep. 225: Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Donald Trump's Mental Health is America's Real National Emergency
Feb 22, 2019
Ep. 224: How Black Americans Used the Sears Catalog to Fight Back Against Jim and Jane Crow Racism
Feb 14, 2019
Ep. 223: Eddie Glaude Jr on The Age of Trump vs The Black Freedom Struggle
Feb 07, 2019
Ep. 222: Colin Kaepernick, the NFL, and the Politics of the Black Athlete
Jan 31, 2019
Ep. 221: Tim Wise on White Privilege and the Trump Covington High School MAGA Mob
Jan 24, 2019
Ep. 220: Timothy Snyder Explains How Donald Trump's "National Emergency" Will Be Used to Overthrow American Democracy and the Constitution
Jan 17, 2019
Ep. 219: How Psychics and Ghost Hunters Are Using Technology to "Hack" the Paranormal and Supernatural
Dec 31, 2018
Ep. 218: What Type of a White Person Do You Want to Be?
Dec 24, 2018
Ep. 217: David Blight Explains How The Wisdom of Frederick Douglass Can Help to Save American Democracy
Dec 19, 2018
Ep. 216: Seth Abramson Explains How Robert Mueller Will Put the Trump Crime Family in Prison
Dec 12, 2018
Ep. 215: How the Podcast "Serial" Crafts a Narrative About Inequality, Race, Class and America's Criminal Justice System
Dec 06, 2018
Ep. 214: James Loewen Explains the Lies Your Teachers Told You About American History
Nov 29, 2018
Ep. 213: James Hansen Reflects on the Life of Neil Armstrong, "First Man", and the Future of NASA and Space Travel
Nov 21, 2018
Ep. 212: Donald Trump Thinks He is God and So Do His Followers
Nov 13, 2018
Ep. 211: Racism is a Weapon of the Rich That's Being Used Against All of Us
Nov 05, 2018
Ep. 210: Donald Trump is Responsible for the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre and the "MAGA Bomber"
Oct 31, 2018
Ep. 209: Chris Hedges Explains How America is a Diseased Society and Donald Trump is the Symptom
Oct 23, 2018
Ep. 208: Max Boot Explains Why the Republican Party Needs to be Burned to the Ground
Oct 16, 2018
Ep. 207: Anthony Bourdain's Dear Friend Joel Rose Reflects on His Passing, Life, and Their Final Project "Hungry Ghosts"
Oct 08, 2018
Ep. 206: Donald Trump is an Adult Baby Whose Greatest Power is Hate
Sep 30, 2018
Ep. 205: Psychiatrist Bandy Lee Warns That Donald Trump is Delusional and Living in His Own Reality
Sep 23, 2018
Ep. 204: Carl Hart Explains How Everything You Think You Know About Drugs is Wrong
Sep 17, 2018
Ep. 203: How Search Engines Like Google and Other Algorithms Reproduce Social Inequality
Sep 10, 2018
Ep. 202: Tim Wise Explains How the Republican Party is a White Identity Cult
Sep 04, 2018
Ep. 201: Bryan Edward Hill on Writing Batman, Black Lightning, and How to Live One's Own Best Life Philosophy
Aug 27, 2018
Ep. 200-2: Joe Feagin on Liberal White Racism and "Colorblind" America
Aug 21, 2018
Ep. 200-1: Black KkKlansman/Joe Feagin on Donald Trump, Racism, and Elite White Male Power
Aug 13, 2018
Ep. 199: Yes, We Should be Comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler
Aug 08, 2018
Ep. 198: Eothen "Egon" Alapatt on the Art of Record Collecting and Protecting J. Dilla's Musical Legacy
Aug 01, 2018
Ep. 197: How Donald Trump and the "Alt-Right" Use Political Magic to Expand Their Power
Jul 17, 2018
Ep. 196: Malcolm Nance Explains Donald Trump and Russia's Plot to Destroy American Democracy
Jul 09, 2018
Ep. 195: Richard Painter on Why He is No Longer a Republican and Trump's Threat to American Democracy
Jul 03, 2018
Ep. 194: Cartoonist Rob Rogers was Fired Because He Refused to Stop Telling the Truth About Donald Trump
Jun 24, 2018
Ep. 193: Michael Eric Dyson on Donald Trump and America's Moral Crisis
Jun 17, 2018
Ep. 192: What was It Like to be Jewish and to Live Across the Street From Hitler?
Jun 10, 2018
Ep. 191: When Ted Thornhill Taught a Class Called "White Racism" the Right-wing Mob Threatened His Life
Jun 04, 2018
Ep. 190: Black Genius and Childish Gambino's "This is America"
May 28, 2018
Ep. 189: Dr. Mark Goulston on Maintaining Our Emotional Well-being and Fighting Self-Sabotage
May 20, 2018
Ep. 188: Timothy Snyder on How Donald Trump is Hurting White People in Order to Stay in Power
May 14, 2018
Ep. 187: Avengers: Infinity War / The Secret History of Marvel v. DC Comics
May 06, 2018
Ep. 186: Reza Aslan on How Donald Trump has Turned White Christian Evangelicals Into a Cult
Apr 29, 2018
Ep. 185: If Donald Trump is Removed From Office There Will be Violence
Apr 21, 2018
Ep. 184: Ed Ayers Explains Why Americans are Still Fighting About the Civil War
Apr 14, 2018
Ep. 183: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege and White Racism Hurt White People
Apr 08, 2018
Ep. 182: How Collective Narcissism Explains Donald Trump's Control Over His Followers
Apr 01, 2018
Ep. 181: Daina Berry Explains How Black Slaves were the Human Gold That Built American Empire
Mar 24, 2018
Ep. 180: The Racial Wealth Gap is a Threat to American Prosperity
Mar 17, 2018
Ep. 179: CIA Veteran Melvin Goodman on the Perils of the Trump Administration
Mar 10, 2018
Ep. 178: Donald Trump is the Leader of a Political Cult
Mar 03, 2018
Ep. 177: Is the "Black Panther" Movie Disrespectful to Black Americans?
Feb 28, 2018
Ep. 176: Timothy Snyder Warns That Trump Could Cancel the 2018 Midterm Elections
Feb 22, 2018
Ep. 175: "Black Panther" and Questions of Diversity and Representation in Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Feb 16, 2018
Ep. 174: Yascha Mounk on the Rise of Trump and the Decline of Western Democracies
Feb 10, 2018
Ep. 173: Bandy Lee Continues to Warn the World About Donald Trump's Mental Health
Feb 02, 2018
Ep. 172: America's Elites Will Survive a Nuclear War and You Will Die
Jan 27, 2018
Ep. 171: Carol Anderson Explains White Rage and the Rise of Donald Trump
Jan 20, 2018
Ep. 170: George Ciccariello-Maher Told the Truth About Toxic White Masculinity and Mass Shootings and Lost His Job
Jan 13, 2018
Ep. 169: White Supremacy and the So-Called "War on Christmas"
Jan 07, 2018
Ep. 168: News Journalist Marvin Scott Shares Five Decades of Amazing Stories
Dec 30, 2017
Ep. 167: Brian Klaas Explains How Donald Trump is the Despot's Apprentice
Dec 22, 2017
Ep. 166: All Things "Star Wars" and "The Last Jedi"
Dec 15, 2017
Ep. 165: Nancy MacLean Dissects the Evil Republican "Tax Reform" Bill
Dec 09, 2017
Ep. 164: Henry Giroux Evaluates America One Year After Donald Trump
Dec 02, 2017
Ep. 163: Anti-Black Violence, Whiteness, and the Pleasures of Owning People
Nov 24, 2017
Ep. 162: Bruce Bartlett Explains Why the Republican Party Must Die
Nov 18, 2017
Ep. 161: Rory Karpf on His New ESPN 30 for 30 Documentary About the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair
Nov 11, 2017
Ep. 160: John Gartner Warns That Donald Trump is Mentally Ill/John Mueller's Indictments
Nov 04, 2017
Ep. 159: White Supremacists Don't Know Much About European History
Oct 27, 2017
Ep. 158: Lecturer Lars Maischak "Threatened" Donald Trump on Twitter and Lost His Job
Oct 22, 2017
Ep. 157: Tom Nichols Explains Donald Trump and the Nuclear "Madman Theory"
Oct 15, 2017
Ep. 156: Nancy MacLean Explains the Radical Right-wing's Plans to Destroy American Democracy
Oct 07, 2017
Ep. 155: Frank Miller Reflects on Batman and a Career in Comic Books
Sep 29, 2017
Ep. 154: Dallas Penn Reflects on the Black Blogosphere, Life, Collecting, and Hip-Hop
Sep 24, 2017
Ep. 153: There's "No Easy Way Out" When You are Bowling with Gangsters and Hustlers
Sep 16, 2017
Ep. 152: Lance Dodes Warns That Donald Trump is Sociopathic
Sep 09, 2017
Ep. 151: James Whitman Explains What Adolf Hitler and the Nazis Learned From American Racism
Sep 02, 2017
Ep. 150: Timothy Snyder Explains how Donald Trump will use Charlottesville to advance his fascist agenda
Aug 25, 2017
Ep. 149: Analyzing the White Supremacist Terrorism in Charlottesville
Aug 18, 2017
Ep. 148: Van Jones Explains How Best to Resist Donald Trump
Aug 13, 2017
Ep. 147: Randi Weingarten Explains the Dangers of Gangster Capitalism and the War on America's Schools
Aug 04, 2017
Ep. 146: Tom Nichols Explains How Anti-intellectualism and the War on Expertise Led to the Rise of Donald Trump
Jul 29, 2017
Ep. 145: Randolph Hohle Explains How Neoliberalism and the Color Line Intersect
Jul 23, 2017
Ep. 144: Resisting Fascism and White Supremacy in the Age of Donald Trump
Jul 07, 2017
Ep. 143: Joseph Baker Explores the Lives of Bigfoot Hunters, Demonologists, and UFO Researchers
Jun 30, 2017
Ep. 142: Jason Aaron on Writing "Star Wars", "Southern Bastards", and Reflections on the South
Jun 23, 2017
Ep. 141: Barry Blaustein Talks Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and Eddie Murphy
Jun 16, 2017
Ep. 140: Tim Wise Explores White Identity Politics in the Age of Donald Trump
Jun 09, 2017
Ep. 139: Ruth Ben-Ghiat Analyzes Authoritarianism and Donald Trump's Predatory Masculinity
Jun 02, 2017
Ep. 138: Bandy Lee Sounds the Alarm about Donald Trump's Mental Health
May 24, 2017
Ep. 137: Naveed Jamali Explains How Russia Could Have Infiltrated Trump's White House
May 19, 2017
Ep. 136: Rachel Dolezal Explains "Transracial" Identity and Her Journey From "Black" to "White"
May 11, 2017
Ep. 135: Scott Snyder Shares His Thoughts on Writing Batman, Politics, and "Diversity" in Comic Books
May 06, 2017
Ep. 134: Timothy Snyder Explains How to Fight Back Against Donald Trump
Apr 28, 2017
Ep. 133: Henry Giroux Explains How the Culture of Cruelty Helped to Elect Donald Trump
Apr 21, 2017
Ep. 132: Sheldon Solomon Explains How Death Anxieties and Existential Angst Helped to Elect Donald Trump
Apr 15, 2017
Ep. 131: Philip Zimbardo Explains What the Stanford Prison Experiment Can Tell Us About America and Donald Trump Today
Apr 06, 2017
Ep. 130: Peter Bebergal Explains How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll/Jared Yates Sexton Previews Wrestlemania 33
Mar 31, 2017
Ep. 129: Jane Elliott Explains the Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed Teaching Exercise, Racism, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Mar 24, 2017
Ep. 128: Andrew Gelman Clarifies Some Misconceptions About the 2016 Election, Mama DeVega Returns, and Jane Elliott Chimes In
Mar 17, 2017
Ep. 127: Malcolm Nance Explains How Russia Hacked the 2016 Election and Manipulated the Traitor Donald Trump
Mar 09, 2017
Ep. 126: Colin Dickey Discusses Ghosts, Trauma and American Cultural Memory
Mar 03, 2017
Ep. 125: Cornel Belcher Explains Trump's Victory and the Racist Backlash Against Barack Obama
Feb 17, 2017
Ep. 124: John Kinder on World War One, Disabled Veterans, and Technological Fetishism
Feb 11, 2017
Ep. 123: Monkey Madness with Anthropologist Agustin Fuentes
Feb 03, 2017
Ep. 122: William Smith Explains Racial Battle Fatigue
Jan 27, 2017
Ep. 121: A Special Donald Trump Inauguration Day Episode
Jan 21, 2017
Ep. 120: Kelly Baker on "The Good White People" Problem
Jan 14, 2017
Ep. 119: Lester Spence on Neoliberalism and Black Politics
Jan 06, 2017
Ep. 118: A Special New Year's Eve 2017 Episode
Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 117: Ben Winters talks "Underground Airlines"
Dec 24, 2016
Ep. 116: 1968 Olympic Legend Tommie Smith
Dec 17, 2016
Ep. 115: Van Jones Explains "The Messy Truth" About Trumplandia
Dec 09, 2016
Ep. 114: Zach Schonfeld Ponders Donald Trump and Andy Kaufman
Dec 06, 2016
Ep. 113: Joe Lansdale and William Astore Ponder Trump's Victory
Nov 22, 2016
Ep. 112: A Special Trump v. Clinton Election Night 2016 Episode
Nov 09, 2016
Ep. 111: Jared Yates Sexton on Violence and Donald Trump's Rallies
Oct 28, 2016
Ep. 110: Jennifer Mittelstadt Explains the Military Welfare State
Oct 21, 2016
Ep. 109: John Schiemann Explains Why Torture Does Not Work
Oct 10, 2016
Ep. 108: Daniel Czitrom on the Gilded Age, Corruption, and "Copper"
Sep 30, 2016
Ep. 107: Whitney Strub Connects Newark, Indy Films, and Moral Panics
Sep 23, 2016
Ep. 106: Psychologist Monnica Williams on Racism and Mental Health
Sep 09, 2016
Ep. 105: Paul Street on Race, Class, Labor, and Neoliberalism pt. 2
Sep 02, 2016
Ep. 104: Paul Street on Race, Class, Labor, and Neoliberalism pt. 1
Aug 26, 2016
Ep. 103: Tim Wise on Racism, David Duke, and Donald Trump
Aug 19, 2016
Ep. 102: Phil Torres Ponders Humanity's Future and Extinction
Aug 12, 2016
Ep. 101: Nicholas Stargardt on the Holocaust, Trauma, and Children
Aug 05, 2016
Ep. 100 part 2: The Black Israelites and International Mr. Leather
Jul 29, 2016
Ep. 100: Kevin Willmott on Chi-Raq and Destination Planet Negro
Jul 21, 2016
Ep. 99: Jared Yates Sexton on the Craft of Writing & Pro Wrestling
Jul 15, 2016
Ep. 98: Jared Yates Sexton on the Donald Trump Political Rodeo
Jul 08, 2016
Ep. 97: Alondra Nelson Explains Race and "The Social Life of DNA"
Jun 30, 2016
Ep. 96: Courtney Baker on Images of Black Suffering and Death
Jun 24, 2016
Ep. 95: Randy Roberts on Boxing, Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Jun 17, 2016
Ep. 94: Claire Conner, a Child of the John Birch Society Tells All pt. 2
Jun 10, 2016
Ep. 93: Claire Conner, a Child of the John Birch Society Tells All pt. 1
Jun 02, 2016
Ep. 92: Laurie Essig on How Consumerism Ruins Love and Marriage
May 26, 2016
Ep. 91: Pro Wrestling, a Doggie Friend and Captain America
May 20, 2016
Ep. 90: Richard Rubin Interviews World War One Veterans pt. 2
May 12, 2016
Ep. 89: Richard Rubin Interviews World War One Veterans pt. 1
May 06, 2016
Ep. 88: Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Dave Grossman Explains Learning to Kill
Apr 28, 2016
Ep. 87: Bill Clinton vs. 'Black Lives Matter'
Apr 25, 2016
Ep. 86: Joseph Lowndes on Obama and "Post Racial" America
Apr 15, 2016
Ep. 85: Cedric Johnson on the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Apr 07, 2016
Ep. 84: Paul O'Brien on Crime Novels and Professional Wrestling
Mar 31, 2016
Ep. 83: Andrew Heisel on the NFL, Biorhythms, Race and Writing
Mar 24, 2016
Ep. 82: Sex Wisdom With "The Perverted Negress" Mollena Williams
Mar 17, 2016
Ep. 81: I was There--Donald Trump's Chicago 'No-Show' Rally
Mar 14, 2016
Ep. 80: David Weintraub on Extraterrestrial Life and Religion
Mar 10, 2016
Ep. 79: Allan G. Johnson on Empathy, Power, and Privilege pt. 2
Mar 03, 2016
Ep. 78: Allan G. Johnson on Empathy, Power, and Privilege pt. 1
Feb 25, 2016
Ep. 77: Preston Lauterbach on Memphis, Race and Beale Street
Feb 18, 2016
Ep. 76: David Theo Goldberg Meditates on the Global Color Line
Feb 11, 2016
Ep. 75: Tim Wise on White Privilege and White Racial Fragility
Feb 04, 2016
Ep. 74: A History of the Penis with Sofian Khan
Jan 28, 2016
Ep. 73: Terry Finnegan on Warfare and Moral Courage
Jan 21, 2016
Ep. 72: Oliver Speck on Tarantino, Django, Race and Digital Media
Jan 14, 2016
Ep. 71: David Silverman is an Atheist Who is Fighting God and Religion
Jan 08, 2016
Ep. 70: Deconstructing "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
Dec 31, 2015
Ep. 69: Michael Witwer on the Secret History of the Dungeons and Dragons Role-playing Game
Dec 24, 2015
Ep. 68: Joe Lansdale is Back to Talk "Hap and Leonard" & Other Goodness
Dec 18, 2015
Ep. 67: Ned and Constance Sublette Discuss "The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry"
Dec 10, 2015
Ep. 66: David Neiwert on the Right-wing Hate Media and the Beauty of Killer Whales
Dec 04, 2015
Ep. 65: Sean McElwee from Demos Explores Race, Wealth Inequality and Democracy
Nov 28, 2015
Ep. 64: Paula Ioanide on How Emotions Trump Facts in a Colorblind Era
Nov 20, 2015
Ep. 63: Irvin Muchnick on Pro Wrestling, the NFL, Concussions and Cover-ups
Nov 13, 2015
Ep. 62: Heather Richardson on the Republican Party vs. the Poor and People of Color
Nov 06, 2015
Ep. 61: All Things "Star Wars" Explained by Mark Clark
Oct 30, 2015
Ep. 60: Douglas McAdam Explains Why American Politics is So Deeply Divided
Oct 23, 2015
Ep. 59: John Michael Williams Talks Suicide, Life, Hope and "Bridgend"
Oct 16, 2015
Ep. 58: M. Lamar on Black Masculinity, Sex and being "Negrogothic"
Oct 09, 2015
Ep. 57: Nina Hartley's Wisdom on Sex, Politics, and "Boogie Nights"
Oct 01, 2015
Ep. 56: Gary Brown on Writing Pro Wrestling, Benson and Reality TV
Sep 25, 2015
Ep. 55: David Frankfurter on the Problem of "Evil" and the Supernatural
Sep 17, 2015
Ep. 54: Joe Uscinski on 9/11, Birtherism and Conspiracy Theories
Sep 10, 2015
Ep. 53: Jessie Daniels on Cyber Racism, Modern Lynchings and Digital Literacy
Sep 04, 2015
Ep. 52: Walidah Imarisha on White Washing American History and Black Sci-Fi
Aug 26, 2015
Ep. 51: On Collecting Sneakers and How to Do More Good Better
Aug 11, 2015
Ep. 50: Sean McFate on How Private Armies are Changing the World
Aug 06, 2015
Ep. 49: Psychiatrist David Reiss on Professional Wrestling and America's Broken Mental Health Care System
Jul 30, 2015
Ep. 48: Bill Fletcher Jr. on TransAfrica, Organizing, Resistance and Labor Unions
Jul 23, 2015
Ep. 47: Gregory Downs on Reconstruction, Black Freedom and Resistance
Jul 16, 2015
Ep. 46: Shan Nicholson on the Origins of Hip-Hop, Gang Culture, and Social Activism
Jul 09, 2015
Ep. 45: Jonathan Lethem on "Old" New York, "They Live", and the Culture of Disreputability
Jun 25, 2015
Ep. 44: Ali Abunimah on Electronic Intifada, the Global Color Line, and the Israeli Lobby
Jun 11, 2015
Ep. 43: Henry Giroux on Neoliberalism and the Culture of Cruelty
Jun 04, 2015
Ep. 42: Leonce Gaiter on Black Manhood, the Old West, Honor and Revenge
May 28, 2015
Ep. 41: David Krugler on Black Resistance to White Violence During the "Red Summer" of 1919
May 21, 2015
Ep. 40: Robert Neer on Matters of Napalm, Technology and Morality
May 14, 2015
Ep. 39: Joe McKinney on Zombies and Disaster Planning
May 07, 2015
Ep. 38: C2E2 2015--Max Brooks and Bill Willingham
Apr 27, 2015
Ep. 37: Keli Dailey on Comedy and the News
Apr 23, 2015
Ep. 36: Claire Potter on Public Pedagogy, Digital Culture, Archives and Teaching
Apr 14, 2015
Ep. 35: Jeffrey Sammons and John Morrow Discuss "The Harlem Hellfighters"
Apr 03, 2015
Ep. 34: Rosalyn Dischiavo on Sex Education, BDSM, Porn and 50 Shades of Grey
Mar 27, 2015
Ep. 33: Adilifu Nama on Race, Science Fiction and Black Nerds
Mar 19, 2015
Ep. 32: David Greven on How "Star Trek" Explores Sexuality, Gender and Race
Mar 12, 2015
Ep. 31: Paul Rosenberg on Why Voting Still Matters
Mar 05, 2015
Ep. 30: Frank Schaeffer on the Christian Right's Threat to American Democracy
Feb 05, 2015
Ep. 29: Mickey Hess on the Genius of Ol' Dirty Bastard
Jan 30, 2015
Ep. 28: Jack Hamilton on the Golden Age of Hip Hop
Jan 22, 2015
Ep. 27: Tim Wise on the Lie of Post Racial Politics and the Enduring Power of White Priviilege
Dec 23, 2014
Ep. 26: Jason Colavito on Fringe History, UFOs, White Supremacists and Big Foot
Dec 17, 2014
Ep. 25: Nick Chiles Ponders "Justice While Black"
Dec 09, 2014
Ep. 24: Reverend Renita Lamkin on Justice and Resistance in Ferguson
Nov 20, 2014
Ep. 23: Lou Dubose at Ground Zero in Ferguson
Nov 13, 2014
Ep. 22: All Things Star Wars
Nov 06, 2014