The Strategy Behind Trump’s War on the So-Called Legacy Media
We begin with the strategy behind Trump’s war on the so-called legacy media, which has not succumbed to being his propaganda cheer squad like Fox News and company, as the plutocrats behind the wannabe “Dear Leader” move to overturn the Supreme Court landmark decision New York Times v. Sullivan, while weaponizing libel laws. Joining us is David Enrich, the Business Investigations Editor at the New York Times and the bestselling author of Dark Towers and Servants of the Damned. The winner of numerous journalism awards, he previously was an editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, just out, is Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful.
An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap
Then we get an assessment of how Senate Democrats might extricate themselves from the government shutdown trap set by the House Republican, which has the White House crowing at Schumer and his caucus that “they’re totally screwed.” Joining us is James Galbraith, Professor and Chair in Government and Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He was executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress and, before that, an economist for the House Banking Committee. He is the author of a number of books including Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too and, most recently, Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production.
Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump Conflates Terrorism, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Americanism
Then finally, with Trump deciding who is Jewish and who is not by branding Chuck Schumer as no longer being Jewish, declaring he is now a Palestinian, as though that is a pejorative, we will look into Trump’s conflation of terrorism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism and speak with Ben Burgis, the host of the Give Them an Argument podcast and YouTube channel. A philosophy instructor at Morehouse College and a columnist for Jacobin, his books include Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left, and Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters. We discuss his latest article at MSNBC, “TRUMP’S WAR ON FREE SPEECH HAS COME TO COLLEGE CAMPUSES.”