Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

Historian Michael Kazin on America’s Enduring Actual Greatness
September 08, 2025

There is in fact a lush garden of American greatness and it is not MAGA. Though less well known, there is a proud history of successful dissent which does make America great. Military power and straig

Rising in the UK and the US: A Democratic Left
September 02, 2025

Englands Labour Party is a lot like Americas Democratic Party: all over the map. Both used to be the party of laboring people. The UKs current PM Kier Starmer won claiming to be of the left. Now he

The Trump Era and the Psychology of Moral Courage
August 25, 2025

Researchers are beginning to understand why some of us demonstrate what is called moral courage and others do not. In fact, most of us actually have a warped sense of our own moral courage. We like

Why Mamdani May Revitalize the Democratic Party: 1911 CA Precedent
August 18, 2025

After 2024, the mainstream of the Democratic Party is in the wilderness, but Zohran Mamdani may lead a way out. This weeks guest Fred Glass, talks about what early 20th century California history can

A Blueprint for A Future Israel/Palestine
August 11, 2025

Innumerable people have tried over many years to stop the forever wars between Israel and Palestine. With the world now horrified by the use of starvation as a weapon, the urgency of a resolution has

“Just Following Orders”?
July 28, 2025

American military service members certainly did not sign up to fight the American people. Yet with the massive deployment of national guard and marines to stop protests in Los Angeles, that was indeed

How The Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
July 21, 2025

What mainstream Democrats dont understand is that anti-elites are economically progressive, while the elites are economically conservative. NYCs Mamdani won the primary by building an economic coalit

The Power of Photographs and the Truth That Threatens Dictators
July 14, 2025

Its called airbrushing history and all dictators do it to erase the truth. Sometimes it can be petty. One example is that Pete Hegseths Pentagon deleted photos that were on their website of the firs

His Insatiable Appetite for Prisons
July 07, 2025

The appalling criminalization of ordinary people. No charges, no conviction, just sweep up people who, as he said: look like illegals. Blatantly circumventing constitutional law. And in the big, ugl

Can One Have Meat and A Conscience Too?
June 30, 2025

The right wing is heavily invested in the meat industry. After all, it has the essential components: dominance, violence, destruction of the planet. In his new provocative book: The Omnivores Decepti