Podcast episodes
Season 1
S01 E09 - Episode 9: The Plague of "Burn It Down" Partisanship with Princeton professor Julian Zelizer
S01 E09 - Episode 9: The Plague of "Burn It Down" Partisanship with Princeton professor Julian Zelizer
Our current President and his party seem to be more interested in slandering their political opponents, propagating conspiracy theories, and fomenting division and distraction in our society, than in organizing a coherent response...
S01 E08 - Episode 8: The Plague of "There Is No Alternative" with Stephen Duncombe of the Center for Artistic Activism
S01 E08 - Episode 8: The Plague of "There Is No Alternative" with Stephen Duncombe of the Center for Artistic Activism
We are in the middle of the biggest protest moment in the United States since 1968, and are confronted with the greatest wave of repressive violence in response from the authorities. What is the role of the radical imagination, an...
S01 E07 - Episode 7: The Plague of Worker Expendability with Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez
In this episode, we speak with guests Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez about the plague of worker expendability in our current economy, and how worker owned-cooperatives are the cure. The coronavirus has only put into starker relie...
S01 E06 - Episode 6: The Plague of Lie Machines with Oxford professor Philip N. Howard
Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract yo...
S01 E05 - Episode 5: The Plague of Orwellian Fear, Division, and Denial of Data and Science, with Michael Gene Sullivan
S01 E05 - Episode 5: The Plague of Orwellian Fear, Division, and Denial of Data and Science, with Michael Gene Sullivan
In this episode, Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright and performer, collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and author of a celebrated dramatic adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, talks about the culture of anti-intellec...