How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of several books including his latest How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.
Nancy MacLean, in this 2017 interview about her book, “Democracy in Chains,” lays out the plan by the Koch brothers and their fellow oligarchs to gain control the United States, a plan which this week may well have come to fruition, and the origins of that plan. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Playwright Laurel Ollstein, whose latest work, “Pandora,” will be streaming on the theatreworks.org website Sept 24-38, 2020 (postponed from June), is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.
Historian Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Nixoland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The Invisible Bridge and his latest book is Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980.
Rick Perlstein, who has devoted four sweeping books to chronicling the rise of the right in American politics. The first, Before The Storm, covers Barry Goldwater, the insurgent Republican primary candidate who galvanized a generation of movement conservatives. The second, Nixonland, covers the president who looked like he would be the end of the Republican Party. And … Continued
What Donald Trump Is Doing to You The culmination of 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, The Making of Donald Trump is the recent New York Times bestselling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston. Now, in What Donald Trump Is Doing to You, the author takes a uniquely close look at … Continued
Excavating alternative and radical histories of San Francisco is Chris Carlsson’s specialty. He talks about the city’s role in the Underground Railroad; the enslavement of Native Americans; the 1966 Hunters Points uprising; the San Francisco Diggers; the Freeway Revolt; and more. Chris Carlsson, Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories Pluto Press, … Continued
MAKING OUR WAY HOME: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream Over the course of six decades an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the south and spread across the nation in search of a better life. This migration sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes throughout twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, … Continued
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption Dahr Jamail has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis, from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest, to discover the consequences of the loss of ice to nature and to humans. The … Continued
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. The U.S. loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation, and the world. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the sacred myths of Americans’ … Continued