Benjamin Teitelbaum

Episode 109

Sam Moyn

Episode 99
Episode 78

Michael clune

Episode 95

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum is an author and scholar, a performer of Scandinavian music, and Associate Professor or Ethnomusicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado: Boulder. He is best known for his ethnographic research into far-right groups in Scandinavia and commentary on immigration, and is frequently cited as an expert in Scandinavian and American media.

Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. He came to Yale from Harvard University, where he was Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History. Before this, he spent thirteen years in the Columbia University history department, where he was most recently James Bryce Professor of European Legal History.

Michael W. Clune is the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. His new book is A Defense of Judgment, which challenges objections to judgment and offers a positive account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic education. His other books include Writing Against Time; American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000; Gamelife; and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin.

Michael
DaviES

Episode 90

Michael Davies is a United States-based British television game shows producer. As president and CEO of Embassy Row, a New York City-based television production company that is a unit of Sony Pictures Television, he was the executive producer of Wife Swap. He is the co-host of Men in Blazers, a New York City-based television show, podcast, and digital brand, covering global soccer and its reception in the United States.

GYAN PRAKASH

Episode 79

Gyan Prakash specializes in the history of modern India. He is also Amit’s dad. His general field of research and teaching interests concerns urban modernity, the colonial genealogies of modernity, and problems of postcolonial thought and politics. He advises graduate students on modern South Asian history, colonialism and postcolonial theory, urban history, global history, and history of science. His recently released his book Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point.

Bill Engle

Episode 76

Bill Engle is a nurse who has heroically worked throughout the COVID crisis, and in addition to taking on a global pandemic is also taking on a massive hospital conglomerate to get what nurses deserve.

Lucas Chancel

Episode 75

Lucas Chancel is codirector of the World Inequality Lab and of the World Inequality Database (WID) at the Paris School of Economics, which he joined in 2015. He lectures at Sciences Po in the Master of Public Policy on the economics of inequality and sustainable development. He is also senior research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations since 2011, where he conducts research on the social dimension of sustainable development.

Working america

Episode 73

Kevin Pape is national political director for Working America, and has been with the organization in various roles for almost 10 years. He has run field offices all over the country and was the state director of Colorado for several years. Since 2012, he has been a regional director responsible for the supervision of state directors in multiple states. Kevin, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, lives with his wife, Sara, in Chicago, Illinois.

Linda Goldman is an advisor for Fight for a Better America. She has more than twenty years of experience handling the full panoply of employment-related legal matters. She returned to Ogletree Deakins in June 2018 after working in Title IX for her law school alma matter, UCLA. As part of expanding her insight into legal matters from a range of perspectives, Ms. Goldman also served as a law clerk to a federal trial judge and taught employment law as an adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School.

Nancy RosenbluM

Episode 71

Nancy Lipton Rosenblum is an American political scientist and political philosopher. She is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University and co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. She studies modern political thought and constitutional law.

Russell Muirhead

Episode 71

Russell Muirhead is the author of The Promise of Party for a Polarized Age, published last fall by Harvard University Press. He is also the author of Just Work, a book on the political and ethical meanings of the work ethic – and a number of articles in democratic theory. His work attends to the habits and mores, not just the arguments, that sustain vital democracies. Muirhead teaches at Dartmouth College, where he is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics. He's also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Williams College, and Harvard College.

Migrant Justice

Episode 70

Thelma Gomez and Will Lambek are organizers at Migrant Justice, an organization which works to engage, educate and organize communities and allies to effectively challenge US immigration, economic, and trade policies and practices that adversely affect farm workers and family farmers. Migrant Justice work towards the vision of truly humane and dignified farming communities and fair food systems everywhere making migration a choice and not a need.

Lawrence Douglas

Episode 69

Douglas His most recent book is Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. The book has received national and international attention for exposing the vulnerabilities of the U.S. electoral system, particularly if an incumbent president were to narrowly lose reelection and oppose the peaceful transfer of power.

Corey Stern

Episode 68

Corey is an advocate for the environment and children’s’ rights. He represents individuals who have been catastrophically injured, with an emphasis on children that have suffered brain damage from lead poisoning or individuals that have suffered from sexual abuse. Corey has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients in verdicts and settlements and has garnered a national reputation for his work on lead poisoning and sexual abuse cases.

Patrick Murphy

Episode 67

Patrick Murphy is a combat veteran and the former Undersecretary of the Army. He served as the U.S. Representative from Florida's 18th congressional district from 2013 to 2017. He is a former Republican, switching in 2011.

Operation Restoration

Episode 66

Syrita Steib and Montrell Carmouche join us from Operation Restoration. Formed in 2016 and led by formerly incarcerated women, the organization’s mission is to support women and girls impacted by incarceration to recognize their full potential, restore their lives, and discover new possibilities.

Matt Karp

Episode 65

Matthew Karp is a historian of the U.S. Civil War era and its relationship to the nineteenth-century world. His first book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy explores the ways that slavery shaped U.S. foreign relations before the Civil War.

Freddie deBoer

Episode 63

Freddie DeBoer is a writer and academic with a PhD from Purdue University. His writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Playboy, New Republic, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jacobin. He is one of the most original and prolific voices in essays today, and his anti-tribal style has earned him admiration from political thinkers of all quadrants. The Cult of Smart is his first book.

Alex Vitale

Episode 62

Alex S. Vitale is an author and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College. He is also the coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, The Appeal, USA Today, Vice News, and other media outlets

Son Little

Episode 61

Aaron Earl Livingston, also known by his stage name Son Little, is an American rhythm & blues musician from Philadelphia. His latest album Aloha is out now.

Dr. Maor Sauler

Episode 60

Maor Sauler, MD, specializes in adult pulmonary medicine and critical care, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome and other related diseases. He is also an assistant professor of pulmonary medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where he researches how aging affects the lungs, and determines how those changes predispose people to lung disease.

Quincy Harris

Episode 59

Quincy Harris is a Host, media expert, brand influencer, and public speaker. After being on WTXF Fox 29’s Good Day Philadelphia, Quincy hosted his television show, The Q, bringing the latest in national headlines, lifestyle trends, plus up-close and personal interviews with Kevin Hart, M. Night Shyamalan, and Patti LaBelle to performances by the world famous band, The Roots.

Dwight Brown

Episode 58

Dwight Brown is a labor leader, currently serving as AFL-CIO District Vice President in Burlington, Vermont.

Jabari Brisport

Episode 56

Senator Jabari Brisport represents New York’s 25th State Senate district. He is a third-generation Caribbean-American resident of Brooklyn, Senator Brisport became an activist more than a decade ago when he began organizing efforts in support of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York. He continued his activism as part of the early Black Lives Matter movement and began organizing rallies and protests, as well as training protesters on what to do if stopped or harassed by the police.

Michael Kazin

Episode 50

Michael Kazin is an American historian, and professor at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Dissent magazine.

Rep Scott Drury

Episode 49

Scott Drury is a former Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing District 58 from 2013 to 2019. His professional experience includes working as an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and working as an assistant United States Attorney prosecuting corruption, gun crimes, and corporate fraud. He founded Drury Law, LLC where he is a managing member

Ansley Erickson

Episode 48

Ansley T. Erickson is a historian who focuses on educational inequality and urban and metropolitan history. Her first book, Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits tells the story of persistent inequality in Nashville, Tennesee's metropolitan school district during periods of segregation and desegregation.

Kay Joyce

Episode 46

Kat Joyce is Chair of Bernstein Shur’s Energy and Environmental Practice Groups, and a member of the firm’s Wind Energy, Climate Change and Land Use Teams. In her practice, she handles all types of energy and environmental matters, including energy transactions, renewable generator development, infrastructure and linear development projects, environmental diligence for financing, mergers or acquisitions, greenhouse gas and climate change regulation and negotiating settlements with state and federal agencies.

Troy Williams

Episode 45

Troy Williams, the “Gay Mayor of Salt Lake City” is a political activist. He has become famous nationally for his gay-rights work — as an organizer of the "kiss-in" rallies that embarrassed the LDS Church, the cheeky "Buttarspalooza" at the Capitol that protested by celebrating the homophobia of state Sen. Chris Buttars, and as co-creator of Sister Dottie, the voice of Mormon motherhood as portrayed in drag by actor/gay activist Charles Lynn Frost.

Frances Fox Piven

Episode 44

Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982. Piven is known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism.

Corey Stern

Episode 43

Corey Stern is an American lawyer, known for representing children and their families in lead-poisoning and sex abuse lawsuits.

Chase Madar

Episode 42

Chase Madar is a former civil rights lawyer and the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story behind the WikiLeaks Whistleblower.

Moshik Temkin

Episode 41

Moshik Temkin is an associate professor of history and public policy at Harvard University. He is particularly interested in the interaction between Americans and non-Americans–the effects that American politics have had on the wider world, the roles that international politics have played in American society and policymaking in the United States, and the dynamics created when American and international politics come into contact, or conflict. He is the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial.

Jeet Baidyaroy

Episode 34

Jeet Baidyaroy is a musician and engineer from Brooklyn, NYC. He is a producer, composer, and beat-making wizard.

Sara Gilliam

Episode 29

Sara Pipher Gilliam is a writer, editor and global advocate for refugee families, as well as a former Fulbright Scholar and middle school English teacher. She is Editor-in-Chief of Exchange, an international magazine for early childhood professionals and educators.

Ryan the Ranger

Episode 22

Ryan is an army ranger and intelligence officer of 10 years. He has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around Africa.

Zach Price

Episode 19

Zach Price is a constitutional lawyer and Tony and Amit’s other brother! A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, Professor Price holds the Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He teaches constitutional law and civil procedure. His work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Journal of Legal Analysis, NYU Law Review Online, and Washington Post, among other publications.