Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


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Pervasive Yet Invisible Whie Christian Privilege Pervasive Yet Invisible White Christian Privilege
October 21, 2021

It’s been normalized. Americans who are neither Christian nor white may not necessarily feel open discrimination, but privilege underlies everyday life. The starting point is not neutral, as we’d pref

Making the World Safe for Plutocracy: The History of American Policing
October 19, 2021

It was called the Gilded Age. In the late 19th and early 20th century, there was extreme wealth and everybody else (remind you of another time?). Wall Street bankers back then were getting robbed, som

Republican Goal: End Public Education, End Democracy
October 15, 2021

It’s not about education reform; Republicans like Florida’s DeSantis and others are actually out to end public education. On this show, New Republic editor Kathryn Joyce looks behind such appealing ph

The Prescience And Vision of Rosa Luxemburg. Who?
October 12, 2021

Precapitalist indigenous cultures have a lot to offer us today for a better, greener future. And socialism is not how its pictured. Neglected by the Great Men study of history, Rosa Luxemburg, a 4′ 11

For Inspiration Today: Fannie Lou Hamer In the Early 60s
October 07, 2021

When she came onto the civil rights stage, the men assumed she’d sing, not speak. But Fannie Lou Hamer was a force. As author Kate Clifford Larson tells the amazing story in her new book Walk With Me,

From Heroes to Targets: Medical Workers Under Attack
October 05, 2021

It’s not like displaying a large red cross protects doctors from attack anymore. Yesterday’s Covid heroes are today vilified by some. Across the globe, health care workers have become routinely target

The Harmful Naivete of A Foreign Policy of Violence
October 01, 2021

With violence so deeply embedded into America’s foreign policy, it’s become invisible. But who does it harm more; us of them? On this show global religion teacher and author Kelly Denton-Borhaug says

Even When It Loses, the Pentagon Wins
September 29, 2021

They’re doing it again. Remember the Peace Dividend after Vietnam? Right, it never happened. Now with another war finally ended, here we are again. On this show, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel Willia

There Is Enough to Go Around. But Not the Way We’ve Been Doing It
September 23, 2021

The earth itself is today paying the price for the 20th century fossil fuel bonanza. Now instead of continuing to have all humanity in service to that powerful sector, it’s time to pay the climate and

Must We Do the Cold War Again?
September 21, 2021

It’s so easy for the national security state to just paint the same old picture for Americans: Russia and China are military threats. But in truth they are not. They are rising economically in large p