Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it requires informed participating citizens. On Keeping Democracy Alive, they delve into dynamics that both inhibit democracy and reinvigorate it. Looking into issues from domestic economic issues to foreign, labor, trade, and education policy to wealth gap, and internet issues.
Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
1d ago
Democracy is itself largely improvisation. Pushing back against the powers that be; the mainstream. Our guest Randy Fertel, author of the new book Winging It; Improv’s Power and Peril in the Age of Trump, says rationality alone is not enough;
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
3d ago
Truman was down and nearly out. Then he did a campaign whistle stop tour of America and beat the odds. TV eye candy is one thing but seeing a president in the flesh connects far better, and connection is needed
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
1w ago
The Right gets it; where are Democrats? In his new book What it Took to Win, author and history professor Michael Kazin looks at the last hundred or so years and says it’s clear what has and still works. Whether
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
1w ago
After decades in a coma, the nuclear industry is back. But the truth is nuclear power is not an acceptable stopgap measure, it’s a diversion from real, actually economic, safer solutions. On this show policy analyst Paul Gunter tells the
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
2w ago
It’s basic to the very essence of America. On this show Constitutional Law Professor John O. McGinnis argues that commerce was the mother’s milk of the American Revolution and that the virtues of commerce and idealism need not conflict. Listen
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
3w ago
We’ve built all the dams we need and that nature can handle. Development in flood zones is still happening faster than more sustainable locations. In his new book; Seek Higher Ground, The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis, award
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
3w ago
Most of us can guess but there’s nothing like serious scientific research when it comes to understanding political change. In her forthcoming book How the Heartland Went Red, Harvard’s Stephanie Termullo shares her findings from extensive field research in three
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
1M ago
It’s a systemic problem: what is “reasonable,” what is acting “in good faith” when America’s police violate citizens rights or even kill them? As of now, police are protected, enjoying unique immunity which no one else has. In this show
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
1M ago
They claim loudly they’re protecting freedom and innocent children, but the truth is the right is oppressing both. On this show psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou, co-author of Gender Without Identity, argues there is not one true and immutable authentic identity with
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Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
1M ago
It’s gotta be eye catching. Journalism works by way of fear and anxiety. How it gets presented affects how we understand the news. On this show Tufts University lecturer and author Nan Levinson and your host discuss questions about the
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