The Nazification of American Education

Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Sam interviews Dr. Henry Giroux, renowned educator and author of recently published pieces The Nazification of American Education and The US Is Descending Into a Crisis of Overt Fascism. There’s Still a Way Out. Also see Florida students return to schools reshaped by […]

Danielle Moodie: How to Stand Up to Fascist Bullies

 Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Sam interviews writer and pundit Danielle Moodie about the current state of fascism in the United States and how to actually stand up to the fascist bullies (hint: it’s not what the Democrats are doing right now). Listen to Danielle every weekday […]

Highland Park Mass Shooter Crimo Wasn’t A Lone Wolf

Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Sam speaks to the Rachael Wachstein (first interviewed on Episode #35 in December 2020 – find her on Facebook) again, this time to discuss Robert Crimo, Jr., the mass shooter who murdered people at the Highland Park July 4 parade this year, 2022. Wachstein witnessed not […]

Post-Roe Reality Check & January 6 Hearing Update

Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. It’s just a few weeks into the hellscape that is a post-Roe United States… Sam and Mark chat about just a few of the stories that have come out in recent weeks illustrating the growing catastrophe. Donate to support the Indiana doctor currently […]

Christian Theocracy, the Crusades, & Modern-Day America

 Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Sam interviews Dr. Thomas Lecaque about apocalyptic Christianity, the GOP in 2022 and the medieval roots of support for secular fascists like Trump from Christian Nationalists. Read his recent articles Patriot Front and the Next Stage of the Culture War, “Jesus, guns, babies”: […]

Overturning Roe: A Watershed Moment for U.S. Fascism

Click here to listen on YouTube.com Click here to read the Transcript Sam and Coco Das discuss Coco’s new article for The Independent: Roe has been overturned and women’s bodies are no longer their own in America. Here’s what to do now. Follow Coco at @Coco_Das. Over the past couple weeks SCOTUS has issued a series of […]

SCOTUS: The Big Lie, Fascism: All Illegitimate

Click here to listen on YouTube.com On our first post-Roe episode, we share some of the voices from the streets over the last couple days outside the Supreme Court demanding the federal government restore the fundamental right to abortion across the country NOW, including Sunsara Taylor (@sunsarataylor), Paxton Smith (@paxtonsmith) and youth organizers. Then, writer […]

The Looming Abortion Rights Disaster & Even Worse To Come From The Supreme Court

Sam Goldman takes a break from protesting outside the Supreme Court to interview writer Jill Filipovic about the looming abortion rights disaster. Follow Jill’s work at jill.substack.com and follow her on Twitter at @JillFilipovic. Then, Sunsara Taylor interviews lawyer and host of the Amicus podcast Dahlia Lithwick about the legal rationale behind overturning the right to abortion and the many […]

Federico Finchelstein: “White Replacement Theory” & Fascism

Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Federico Finchelstein on the recent Op Ed he wrote with Dr. Jason Stanley in the LA Times: White replacement theory is fascism’s new name. Follow @FinchelsteinF on Twitter and check out his newest book, Fascist Mythologies: The History and Politics of Unreason in […]

Confronting & Rejecting a Culture of Fascist Violence

 Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript In the aftermath of the horrific massacre of schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, which was close on the heels of a white supremacist killing spree in Buffalo, NY, we’re re-sharing the extremely relevant interview Sam Goldman did with Dr. Carol Anderson in November […]