In 2020, I talked about democracy with filmmaker/writer/organizer/activist, ASTRA TAYLOR. Four years later, following a pandemic, waves of protests, an insurrection, and a couple of ongoing wars, we revisit our fragile and threatened way of political life. She’s been busy - working with the Debt Collective, a union of debtors she co-founded, and writing two new books, THE AGE OF INSECURITY and SOLIDARITY: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.
Episode 605: You’ve been warned-BRENDAN BALLOU-PLUNDER: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Episode 604: DANIEL ELLSBERG-Rest in Peace-which he worked for all his life-our 2009 conversation
Episode 603: HECTOR TOBAR-OUR MIGRANT SOULS: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of Latino
Episode 602: TIFFANY SHLAIN - 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
Episode 601: MICKEY HUFF (Director, PROJECT CENSORED) & NOLAN HIGDON-Let’s Agree to Disagree: Critical Thinking, Communication, and Conflict Management
Episode 600: NAOMI ORESKES & ERIK CONWAY - THE BIG MYTH: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Episode 599: NOREENA HERTZ (2021) -THE LONELY CENTURY - How do we restore human connection?
Episode 598: WALT BOGDANICH-WHEN McKINSEY COMES TO TOWN: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Episode 597: SHEILA KUEHL looks back on 20 years in office. She got things done.
Episode 596: SAM MYERS, PLANETARY HEALTH: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves - Exhibit A: the pandemic
Episode 595: EUNICE NICHOLS, Co-CEO, CoGenerate - bringing older and younger together to solve problems & bridge divides
Episode 594: THOMAS FRANK, What’s the Matter w Kansas? & EDGAR CAHN, late serial social justice entrepreneur-Jan 2012 conversation-the year ahead…
Episode 593: Podcast: KATHRYN PAIGE HARDEN, THE GENETIC LOTTERY: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality - though many want to pretend it doesn’t.
Episode 592: BARBARA FINAMORE (2019)-Can we cooperate on climate?-WILL CHINA SAVE THE PLANET?
Episode 591: THIRD ACT-Mobilizing Boomers to Defend Democracy & Confront Climate-BOB FULKERSON, Lead National Organizer
Episode 590: 1) WINIFRED GALLAGHER, Attention, our most valuable resource. 2) TIM RYAN, former Ohio Congressman on meditation
Episode 589: ANDREW BACEVICH on Ukraine, defense spending, and Bidding Farewell to the American Century
Episode 588: INFLATION 101: What’s Really Going On?-ROBERT POLLIN
Episode 587: THE FIFTIES: UNDERGROUND HISTORY-Heroes who blazed trails for the ’60s-JAMES GAINES
Episode 586: BRANKO MILANOVIC-When capitalism rules the world, how can we shrink inequality and confront climate change?
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