Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

The Folly of Quantifying Education
August 31, 2022

As another school year kicks off, skepticism about quantifying is appropriate. That measure is command and control from the top down bureaucrats. But much of the best results of public education can’t

Being Gay, Brown, and Immigrant
August 25, 2022

Even in safe spaces for gay men, there is subtle racism and stratification if one is not white. On this show, Professor Anthony Ocampo talks about his new book Brown and Gay in LA, including pressures

The "Moms For Liberty" Nightmare for American Schools
August 16, 2022

It’s almost time for the start of schools. Of course all parents want to protect their children from inappropriate material. But when “parental rights” mean teachers are forbidden from mentioning homo

Veterans are Poorly Treated Pentagon Employees
August 10, 2022

Why do America’s veterans have to beg for help on TV ads? How is it that our government refuses to pay the true costs of war? On this show, senior veterans policy analyst Suzanne Gordon talks about th

Militaristic Foreign Policy Fails; There are Other Options
August 04, 2022

The same old same old foreign policy of military first does not enhance our national security. On this show historian Leon Fink, author of Undoing the Liberal World Order, sees that the causes of terr

75 Years of National Security State: America?
August 02, 2022

You may have thought it began after 9/11. But it really all started in 1947, as National Security Archive Scoville Fellow Rachel Santarsiero explains. The focus of our huge arsenal then quickly shifte

Josh Hawley and the Republican Push for Toxic Masculinity
July 21, 2022

The Missouri Senator voted against one thing that can actually address what he says is the problem. Where once men felt pride in what they contributed to family and community as sole breadwinners, tha

Feminist Prejudice Against Women in Hijabs?
July 19, 2022

Do liberal women feel that their culture is superior? Among women who feel liberated, what is it about the sight of Muslim women in traditional hijabs that so bothers many? In her new book Unruly Wome

“Conservatives” Are Disastrous to Civil Liberties
July 13, 2022

The opposite of conservatism is a police state. Yet public figures who call themselves conservative are crushing many of our traditional civil liberties and our legal rights. This according to Jacob H

Today’s Supreme Court: Not All May Participate in Democracy
July 06, 2022

Justice Scalia claimed to be an Originalist: did he mean only propertied white Christian men have rights? Perhaps the actual intent is still consent of all the governed. In the 21st century, are we no