What’s America’s largest public healthcare system?  It’s not Medicare, which isn’t a provider of healthcare, just a payer.  It’s the Veterans Health Administration, which looks after nine million ex-service members.  Healthcare journalist Suzanne Gordon discusses why we should care about the Veterans Health Administration – and the push to privatize it. Resources: Suzanne Gordon, Wounds … Continued


A conversation on eighteenth-century philosopher Denis Diderot and the battle over his encyclopedia which was considered to be full of subversive stuff.  Diderot challenged virtually all of his century’s accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.  He is considered a prophetic philosopher  … Continued