Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with scholar Matthew D. Taylor about House Speaker Mike Johnson and the significance and danger exemplified in Johnson’s ascent to power. Taylor documents Johnson’s links to leading voices in the Christian Charismatic movement (which were early adopters of the Trump cult,… Read More
Susan Neiman on Universalism Against Nationalism
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Dr. Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Left Is Not Woke. Her first work of fiction, Nine Stories: A Berlin Novel, will be published in 2024. She has written two recent thought provoking essays for the The… Read More
Project 2025: Roadmap for Fascist Consolidation
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Wendy Via, Co-Founder and President at The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, about their analysis of the publicly announced plan for “day one” of the next presidential administration (presumably headed by leading Republifascist candidate Donald Trump). Their report The Far-Right… Read More
Censored Classrooms & The Freedom to Read
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Kasey Meehan, Freedom to Read Program Director at PEN America. Their new report America’s Censored Classrooms 2023 states, “Over the past three years, state legislators have launched an onslaught of educational gag orders—state legislative and policy efforts to restrict teaching about topics… Read More
The Nightmare That Is House Speaker Mike Johnson
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with writer Sarah Posner about Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, third in line to the presidency and Christian Nationalist who spent around a decade as a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom (sic), the organization behind the recent… Read More
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