Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This abundance panel -- which been weeks in the making -- is well-timed: A new poll shows that voters prefer populist messaging to "abundance" messaging by a significant margin , throwing advocates of Abundance , a new book by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, into a tizzy. So what is "Abundance" anyway, & why has Left Twitter been so antagonistic to the ideology? Are pro...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 478
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies and The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy Benjamin Studebaker returns to Bad Faith with a wakeup call for the left: You've learned nothing from the Bernie 2020/2024 cycles . He criticizes the "Jacobin left" for not recognizing the need to overcome a key divide separating the erstwhile le...
May 26, 2025•9 min•Season 1Ep. 477
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Historian and founder of Palestine Nexus, an educational resource on Palestine, Zachary Foster joins Bad Faith to break down his viral article on the forgotten history of Jewish anti-zionism . By forensically examining the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, he disrupts mythology used to justify Israeli oppression of Palestinians in the present. Also, he weighs in ...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 476
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, ended its relationship with noted Brown University economist Glenn Loury after he was critical of Israel's actions in Gaza. The cancelation followed an appearance from fellow Brown professor and Israeli historian Omar Bartov on his podcast, during which Bartov offered an analysis of the Gaza genocide that...
May 19, 2025•9 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of International History at Boston University & author of Globalists: The End of Empire & the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, & the Capitalism of the Far Right . Slobodian explains the way that neoliberalism hijacks democracy to prioritize capital interests over the subs...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 474
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Revolutionary Blackout Network co-founder Nick Cruse returns to Bad Faith to break down the liberal media meltdown over tepid efforts to push the party left . Not only are establishment politicians and commentators quick to decry the "message" of the AOC/Bernie rallies, David Hogg's efforts to primary old guard Democrats have been met with threats to oust ...
May 12, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 473
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project Matt Stoller returns to Bad Faith to talk Facebook’s anti-trust case, why big tech is pushing AI, the surprising goodness of Trump’s FTC, and whether the worst impacts of Trump’s tariffs are still ahead. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Ins...
May 08, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 472
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast A Brief History of Violence screenwriter & co-host of The Movies that Made Me Josh Olson and Struggle Session co-host Leslie Lee III join the show to discuss the movie everyone's talking about: Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow vampire film Sinners . In a spoiler-filled episode ( you are warned ), the trio debate what the movie is trying to say about race, freed...
May 05, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 471
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Semifor editor-in-chief and former EIC of Buzzfeed News Ben Smith joins Bad Faith to discuss his recent exposé on the private group chats in which tech billionaires like Marc Andreessen & Mark Cuban build consensus and debate ideas with handpicked "smart" men who are ideologically right-of-center -- all hidden from public eyes and public pushback . In theory, these chats...
May 01, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 470
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Co-founder and executive president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Dr. Trita Parsi returns to Bad Faith podcast for an update on Iran, Gaza, and the death of international law . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) ....
Apr 28, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 469
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of sociology at New York University, theorist, and founder of the journal Catalyst Vivek Chibber joins Bad Faith to debate the course of the left under Trump, the value of entryism, third party politics, and the fatalism that follows from everything being broken. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) a...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 468
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last year Annelle Sheline resigned from Biden's State Department in protest of the administration's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza . She returns to Bad Faith podcast to provide new insight into how the State Department routinely deprioritized or flat out ignored reports about human rights abuses so that it would not have to contend with domestic la...
Apr 21, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 467
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Civil rights lawyer and social justice advocate Alec Karatkatsanis returns to Bad Faith to talk about his new book Copaganda: How Police & The Media Manipulate Our News . Alec zeroes in on the liberal media and political sphere to explain the establishment left's role in pushing the mythologies that fund the police , defund social services, and make the world less safe. Alec...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 466
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast National Co-Director of feminist anti-war group Code Pink Danaka Katovitch joins Bad Faith to discuss Sen. Tom Cotton's attacks on their group and Sen. Jim Banks' allegation that Code Pink is in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act . Since October 7th, establishment politicians have been cracking down on protests. In the wake of April 5th's hu...
Apr 14, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 465
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Leftist economist Fadhel Kaboub returns to Bad Faith to deepen last week's conversation on Tariffs following "Orange Monday." He assesses Elon's discovery of "magic money machines" -- confirming that the government doesn't need to tax to spend, and breaks down what Democrats should (but won't) say to exploit mass frustration with Trump's economic policy. Subscribe to Bad Fai...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 20 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In a conversation that's immediately so rich Briahna forgets to introduce him, preeminent Gaza scholar, author, and professor Norman Finkelstein addresses how the crusade against wokeness is being weaponized by some, like Columbia Professor John McWhorter, to justify pro-Zionist free speech crackdowns on campus, and whether left-critics of woke excesses h...
Apr 10, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 463
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Director of Rethink Trade at the American Economic Liberties Project and senior advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign Lori Wallach joins Bad Faith to explain Trump’s tariff policy from a labor populist perspective. Deeply informative, clear, and principled analysis. A must-listen . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badf...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 462
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Friend of the show and People's Policy Project wonk Matt Bruenig returns to Bad Faith to give the insider perspective on the lawsuits against health tech CEO Bryan Johnson. You may know Johnson as the guy who used his kid as a "blood bag" (i.e., injected himself with his son's plasma) and who goes to great lengths to "live forever." As it turns out, he ha...
Mar 30, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 461
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Grayzone U.K. Chief Investigator and Co-Founder of Active Measures Kit Klarenberg joins Bad Faith to talk about the impact of the new administration on the Ukraine-Russia war, recent developments in the field, and what the ultimate endgame is likely to be. Also, Kit speaks to the authoritarian crackdown on pro-Palestine speech from his personal experience being detained in t...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 460
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on recent developments in Palestine, including Israel's choice to end the ceasefire , the catastrophic Israeli strikes resulting in the death of about 400 Palestinians, nearly half children, the recent U.N. report on Israel's use of sexual violence against Palestin...
Mar 24, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 459
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Status Coup founder and author of We The Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans Jordan Chariton returns to Bad Faith to unpack Trump's obsession with making Canada the 51st state and its connection with Jordan's long-term reporting on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. It's a resource issue: The water wars are here. Subscr...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 458
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Columbia grad student Layla S. , whom you may know from the highly informative Twitter account @ itslaylas , joins Bad Faith to talk about the government kidnapping of her friend and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil , and ICE's deportation threats against two other pro-Palestine student protesters: Ranjani Srinivasan, who self-deported, and Leqaa ...
Mar 17, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 457
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Following Brie's explosive interview with former Rep. Jamaal Bowman about Force The Vote and the usefulness of The Squad, socialist former Seattle City Councilmember and founder of independent movement organization Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith to offer her rebuttal to the "inside/outside" strategy for moving the country left . As part of the adversa...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 456
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former U.S. Representtive Jamaal Bowman makes his first appearance on Bad Faith to talk about the future of the Democratic Party and whether he still has faith in an inside/outside strategy after AIPAC spent an unprecedented sum of millions to unseat him last year. Brie and Bowman debate the merits of Force The Vote, whether FTV activists had "no plan," a...
Mar 10, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 455
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Israeli-American author and activist Miko Peled returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Palestinian documentary No Other Land 's Oscar win , to break down Bill Maher’s mind-numbing analysis of the Israeli occupation on Pod Save America , and to provide updates on the ongoing genocide. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfai...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 454
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author and staff writer at The Atlantic Thomas Chatterton Williams returns to Bad Faith to discuss his controversial piece calling out conservatives for indulging in the kind of strict linguistic orthodoxy (see: "Gulf of America") and curtailment of speech they've long accused liberals of indulging in. He and Briahna discuss backlash from former wokescold...
Mar 03, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 453
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Can a DSA candidate running on free buses, free childcare, and a freeze on rent become mayor of New York City ? Polling first among declared candidates, N.Y. State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani is no symbolic candidate. He's has a strategy to win and a commitment to left principles that has even disgruntled lefties like Brie saying things like "he's the real deal." In this ...
Feb 26, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 452
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast MintPress News reporter Alan MacLeod returns to Bad Faith to tell the story of how Elon Musk was mentored by his CIA handler to become the ultimate insider: a defense contractor for the US government who is now involved in a project to double the number of nuclear bombs in existence, and build an "iron dome" for America which would end the era of "mutuall...
Feb 24, 2025•7 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Lawyer and Executive Director for Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) Sarah Leah Whitson returns to Bad Faith for an update on the genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza , the culpability of regional Arab leadership, and Trump's latest real estate ambitions. Briahna and Sarah also debate how the Democratic Party lost to Trump and whether a focus on certain social...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 450
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This year's annual Valentine's Day episode features an all-comedian panel . Kate Willett and Katie Haper return to the pod, joined by one of Brie's favorite comedians: Gianmarco Soresi . This year, we dig into post-October 7th dating, religion, and the controversial DSA dating event Thots and Trots . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this epi...
Feb 17, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 449
