Democracy is itself largely improvisation. Pushing back against the powers that be; the mainstream. Our guest Randy Fertel, author of the new book Winging It; Improvs Power and Peril in the Age of Tr

Truman was down and nearly out. Then he did a campaign whistle stop tour of America and beat the odds. TV eye candy is one thing but seeing a president in the flesh connects far better, and connection

The Right gets it; where are Democrats? In his new book What it Took to Win, author and history professor Michael Kazin looks at the last hundred or so years and says its clear what has and still wo

After decades in a coma, the nuclear industry is back. But the truth is nuclear power is not an acceptable stopgap measure, its a diversion from real, actually economic, safer solutions. On this show

In the current American version of capitalism, all of us are thingified: our only value being as digits on the way to corporate profits. This reflects a core bias in the system toward serving the ve

Its basic to the very essence of America. On this show Constitutional Law Professor John O. McGinnis argues that commerce was the mothers milk of the American Revolution and that the virtues of comm

Weve built all the dams we need and that nature can handle. Development in flood zones is still happening faster than more sustainable locations. In his new book; Seek Higher Ground, The Natural Solu

Most of us can guess but theres nothing like serious scientific research when it comes to understanding political change. In her forthcoming book How the Heartland Went Red, Harvards Stephanie Term

Its a systemic problem: what is reasonable, what is acting in good faith when Americas police violate citizens rights or even kill them? As of now, police are protected, enjoying unique immunity

They claim loudly theyre protecting freedom and innocent children, but the truth is the right is oppressing both. On this show psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou, co-author of Gender Without Identity, a