#1257 Debunking the reactionary intellectuals of the dark web
Air Date: 3–19-2019
Today we take a look at the likes of Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson as a window into the world of their followers and as an inoculation against thinking they're people worth taking seriously just because they make sense one-third of the time.
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Bonus Edition #142 The Nordic Theory of Love
Air Date: 3/1/2019
Today I share an unusual clip and talk for a while about how much better Scandinavia is than the US.
Read more#1256 A Green New Deal to build a new Common Sense
Air Date: 3–12-2019
Today we take a look at the development of the Green New Deal and its impacts on economics, labor, frontline communities climate mitigation and the politics of the possible
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#1255 Democratizing our presidential elections (National Popular Vote)
Air Date: 3–8-2019
Today we take a look at two strategies being pursued in parallel to reform our presidential election process and make every vote for president count equally
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#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows
Air Date: 3–5-2019
Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of democratic nations and individuals who support human rights, leaving the country with some of the most far-right, fascist, white-supremacist, anti-Semitic people in the world as their only remaining allies.
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