#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See it Clearly (Voter Suppression)
Air Date: 8–22-2020
Today we take a look at the long history and motivations for voter suppression, explain why it tends to help one party over the other and why vote-by-mail is the best solution to the majority of our voting problems.
Read more#1361 Building a Better System of Justice
Air Date: 8–12-2020
Today we take a look at Restorative Justice as an antidote to a wide range of injustices we face, from mass incarceration to having a toddler throw a cheerio at your forehead and much of what lies in between.
Read more#1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice
Air Date: 8–8-2020
Today we take a look at the concept of defunding the police; what it means, what it doesn't and what the goals of the movement are.
Read more#1359 The Life, Legacy and Lessons of John Lewis
Air Date: 8–5-2020
Today we take a look at the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis at a moment in time when the lessons he has to teach us are as important as when he first learned them himself during the dawn of the civil rights era.
Read more#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study
Air Date: 7–20-2020
Systems maintain themselves through the efforts of many moving parts that need not understand their roles in maintaining the system as a whole, only their specialized task. Today, I use a case study incident to show how the system of racism defends itself against attack. Many separate parts, none of which understand how their individual actions connect to the larger system, work in complicated yet predictable ways to carry out this defense of racism much like the many specialized antibodies of an immune system work together to isolate and eradicate threats to the host.
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