Nov 24, 2022
***This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show***
On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times.
Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using...
Sep 19, 2022
Shawn Rosenberg is a professor of political science and psychology at UC Irvine and one of the world’s foremost experts in political psychology.
He warns that the average American and other people who live in countries governed by Western-style democracies may be fundamentally unable to follow through on the...
Sep 1, 2022
Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B Ransford Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. His books include Floating City and Gang Leader for a Day.
Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book is The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them.
He reflects...
May 19, 2022
Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. His most recent book is "Dispatches From the Race War."
Tim Wise explores the role of white privilege, white racial innocence, and white denial in the Buffalo white supremacist terrorist attack.
He warns that the white supremacist...
Mar 27, 2022
Cathy O’Neil is the author of the bestselling book Weapons of Math Destruction. Her new book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation.
O’Neil explains the power of shame and how in today’s society it is amplified in potentially dangerous and life altering ways by algorithms, social media...