Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

Yes: Democrats Can Win Back the White Working Class
January 11, 2023

How did so many blue collar regions go from Obama 2012 to Trump 2016? Our guest today Robin Johnson, himself of the mid-west, says Thomas Franks was wrong judging and dismissing this demographic; Demo

Lula: New Hope for a Habitable Earth?
January 05, 2023

From mere crisis to real emergency, one big political change in Brazil offers realistic hope for saving the planet. No exaggeration. On this show global south veteran journalist James North explains t

Christian Nationalism 2023: Power Not Piety
December 30, 2022

Bradley Onishi is himself a deconverted Christian nationalist. His new book is titled Preparing for War; The Extremist History of White Christian NationalismAnd What Comes Next. On this show, he an

The Christmas Truce of 1914: Not So Isolated
December 22, 2022

Youve heard of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 between the trenches of the British and German soldiers. These were indeed brave men. But that was not the only such event: there were desertions, mu

The High Price Paid for Ignoring the Midwest
December 08, 2022

No one likes to be ignored. We saw what happened when the 2016 Democratic nominee skipped those states. The truth is it was a liberal heartland: McGovern, Wellstone, Mondale, etc. Our guest is histori

The Danger of Nostalgia
December 07, 2022

Of all the motivations for war, nostalgia is at the top. Restoring lost glory. We see it not only in Putins Russia but in many former empires. Nostalgia is a factor in racist nationalist bloodletting

Profitable Panic: Busting Sex Workers at Qatar World Cup
November 17, 2022

At the World Cup and other global sporting events, all kinds of workers are exploited. And under the guise of rescue and saving souls involved in the sex trade, evangelical, business interests, politi

An American Tradition of Christian Left
November 16, 2022

Though the angry white supremacist right grabs todays news, the truth is the Christian Left has much deeper roots in American history. According to the Reverend Quardricos Bernard Driskell, the relig

Instead of a Red Wave, One of Common Sense?
November 10, 2022

Its echoing everywhere: Trump was the biggest loser of the 2022 elections. Recorded two days after the votes, our guest today, veteran political news person John Kosinski sees what so unexpectedly ha

This is the Best Analysis of the Coming Election
November 02, 2022

Thinking with history; on this show political broadcast veteran John Kosinski demonstrates how so many people running just want to be showmen on TeeVee. He explains why so many are drawn to Trumpism: