Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

Seek Higher Ground: The Laws of Nature are Not Optional
March 28, 2024

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

Why Place Supplants Issues in the Heartland
March 26, 2024

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

Shielded: How Did Police Become Untouchable?
March 21, 2024

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

Gender Identity: Is it Fixed or Changeable?
March 19, 2024

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

Is There Journalism That Doesn’t Love A War?
March 14, 2024

Its gotta be eye catching. Journalism works by way of fear and anxiety. How it gets presented affects how we understand the news. On this show Tufts University lecturer and author Nan Levinson and yo

The Irony of Racism in Decrepit MLK Urban Schools
March 12, 2024

If you have cared about equality in education in recent decades, you know of the work of Americas foremost advocate for public schools Jonathan Kozol. In schools named after Martin Luther King Jr, he

The Truth Behind the Myth of the American Revolution
March 07, 2024

Its the bedrock of who we are today. But to believe there was agreement among the Founding Fathers, that they aimed to to replace plutocracy with democracy is just wrong. In this lively interview,

“As if We Were Trash.” One Woman’s Prison Memoir
February 29, 2024

The intent is humiliation, eating away at ones humanity. How can that make one a better person? Former figure skater Keri Blakingers new book Corrections In Ink tells the story from the inside and a

Plato: The Benefits of Acting Justly
February 27, 2024

In her new book Of Rule and Office: Platos Ideas of the Political, Princeton Professor of Politics Melissa Lane shows how the orange one serves both anarchy and tyranny. Better politicians use virtue

Waking the Sleeping Giant: 85 Million Americans
February 22, 2024

Politicians know the consequences of voters being ignored.There are tens of millions of people who used to be middle class but a revived Poor Peoples Campaign just may connect and inspire. According