There are three guests on this week's special December fundraising month episode of the podcast. Julie Snyder is the co-creator and producer of the hit podcast series Serial . Emmanuel Dzotsi is the co-host and reporter for Serial's most recent season which focused on crime and punishment in America as revealed through what happens at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in Cleveland. To support The Chauncey DeVega Show during this fundraising month you can make a donation via Paypal at cha...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 16 min
There are two guests on this week's podcast. James Loewen is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me . He has also written award-winning books such as Sundown Towns , Teaching What Really Happened , and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . In his several decades of teaching and scholarship Professor Loewen has traveled around the United States and world giving lectures and offering training sessions to educators and activists and the general public. He has also won pre...
Nov 29, 2018•1 hr 32 min
There are two guests on this week's podcast. James Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama and the author of the acclaimed biography First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong . Dr. Hansen has also served on the Research Advisory Board of the National Air and Space Museum and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Institution Press. Hansen shares his thoughts on the new movie First Man starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, what it was like to advise Gosling on the...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 25 min
There are two guests on this week's podcast. Psychiatrist Justin Frank returns to The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch . His newest book is Trump on the Couch . Dr. Frank's work has appeared in Time magazine and the Daily Beast and he has appeared as an e...
Nov 13, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Ian Haney Lopez is The Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley and author many articles and numerous books including White by Law and his most recent Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Lopez is also a Senior Fellow at Demos in addition to being the Director of The Haas Institute's Racial Politics project. Professor Lopez and Chauncey discuss how racial demagoguery dominates the Republican Party...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 20 min
David Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle and a contributing writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is the author of numerous books including the new Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump , The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right , Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us , Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane . David and Chauncey discuss how Donald Trump, the Republican Party,...
Oct 31, 2018•1 hr 20 min
Chris Hedges is the author of the new book America: The Farewell Tour . He is also the author of numerous award winning books including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle , Death of a Liberal Class , War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning , American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America , and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt . Chris Hedges and Chauncey discuss how America is a deeply sick and pathological society, why Donald Trump is the symptom ...
Oct 23, 2018•53 min
Max Boot is the author of numerous bestselling books including The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam , The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power , War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today and Invisible Armies: The Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present . His newest book is entitled The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right . In addition, he is the Jeane J. Kirkpat...
Oct 16, 2018•59 min
Joel Rose is the author of such acclaimed novels as Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster and The Blackest Bird . He is also a dear and close friend of the late, great and very much missed Anthony Bourdain. Their friendship was also a creative partnership. Together they co-wrote The New York Times bestselling graphic novel Jiro Dreams of Sushi and its prequel Get Jiro! Blood and Sushi . Joel and Anthony's final project together is the new graphic novel Hungry Ghosts . Joel and Chauncey reflect on Anthony B...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Dr. Justin Frank is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than forty years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books "Bush on the Couch" as well as "Obama on the Couch". Dr. Frank's new book is "Trump on the Couch". Dr. Frank's work has appeared in Time Magazine and at the Daily Beast. He has also been an expert commentator and guest on such media outlets as MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Dr. Frank an...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 37 min
Bandy Lee is a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and one of the principle editors of the New York Times bestseller T he Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President . On this week's show, Dr. Lee and Chauncey discuss how Donald Trump's mental health continues to worsen, how insiders from the White House reached out to her last year--well before the recent New York Times anonymous op-ed--with concerns and fears about the president, and how a...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Carl Hart is the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University . Professor Hart is also the Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. Professor Hart has published numerous scientific and popular articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology and is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior (with Charles Ksir). His most recent book, High Price : A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know Ab...
Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 47 min
Safiya Noble is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication and the author of the new book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism . On this week's show, Safiya and Chauncey discuss how algorithms such as Google as well as "artificial intelligence" are actually making social inequality worse in America and around the world, the misplaced faith in such techn...
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 32 min
Anti-racism activist, author, and scholar Tim Wise is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Tim Wise is the author of numerous books including his most recent Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America . On this week's show, Tim and Chauncey discuss Donald Trump's obsessions with "white genocide" in South Africa, the true meaning of "White Identity Politics" and its relationship to Whiteness, if racists and other bigots...
Sep 04, 2018•1 hr 24 min
Bryan Edward Hill is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the writer of such comic books as the Batman Detective Comics series and also Michael Cray . His newest project is American Carnage which is forthcoming from Vertigo. In addition to writing comic books Bryan is also a TV writer whose credits include Ash vs. The Evil Dead . On this week's show, Bryan and Chauncey discuss how being working class black folks impacted their life trajectories, questions of "repr...
Aug 27, 2018•1 hr 35 min
Joe Feagin is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is part two of our conversation which began on last week's very special 200th show. He is a distinguished professor of sociology at Texas A&M University and one of the leading scholars of race and social inequality in the world. Professor Feagin has written dozens of books including The White Racial Frame:Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing, Racist America, and How Blacks Built America. Professor Fe...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 26 min
There are two guests on part one of this very special two-part 200th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Kevin Willmott is a professor of film at The University of Kansas. He is also one of the writers on Spike Lee's great new film BlacKkKlansman . Kevin and Chauncey discuss the surreal truth of how Ron Stallworth, a black man, teamed up with a fellow police officer, who is Jewish, to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Kevin also reflects on how BlacKkKlansman is a direct counter to the racism and b...
Aug 13, 2018•1 hr 39 min
Richard Frankel is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and the author of numerous articles as well as the book Bismarck's Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945 . Frankel's work can also be read at Newsweek and the History News Network . During this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Professor Frankel and Chauncey discuss how the rise of Donald T...
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 23 min
Eothen "Egon" Alapatt is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the founder and president of Now-Again Records, the reissue imprint he founded in 2002. He oversees all of the label's reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. He is the creative director of the J. Dilla Estate and is partners with Madlib in Madlib Invazion . Eothen was also Stones Throw Records' general man...
Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 39 min
Gary Lachman is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of several books and has lectured across the United States, Britain and Europe on the relationship between consciousness, esoteric knowledge, politics, history and culture. He is perhaps best known as a founding member of the New York new wave band Blondie , in which he played bass from 1975 to 1977. His new book is Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump . During this episode of The Ch...
Jul 17, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Malcolm Nance is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a career intelligence and counterterrorism officer for the United States government. In his more than three decades working in that capacity, Nance served with U.S. Special Operations forces, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. He has worked in the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A frequent guest contributor on MSNBC, Nance has authored several book...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Richard Painter is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Painter was White House chief ethics counsel under George W. Bush and is a frequent political commentator and analyst on CNN, MSNBC and other news networks. He is also a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books including " Getting the Government America Deserves. " Although he has been a Republican nearly all his life, Painter is now running as a Democrat for the U.S...
Jul 03, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Rob Rogers is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a nationally-syndicated political cartoonist who worked with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper for 25 years before being fired several weeks ago. Why? Because he refused to stop telling truth about Donald Trump . During this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Rob Rogers and Chauncey discuss the personal costs of telling the truth about Donald Trump's regime in an era of cowardice as well as how Rogers decid...
Jun 24, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Michael Eric Dyson is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and the author of many books including What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America as well as Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America . Dr. Dyson is also a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher as well CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. During this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Prof...
Jun 17, 2018•1 hr 7 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two guests. Professor Edgar Feuchtwanger is a Jewish historian who grew up across the street from Adolph Hitler and witnessed the rise of the Nazism and its evil firsthand. Professor Feuchtwanger shares the memories of that dark time from a child's perspective and with a historian's insight in his new book Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1938 . On this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Edgar Feuchtwanger...
Jun 10, 2018•1 hr 26 min
Ted Thornhill is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University who received national attention because he dared to teach a course in January 2018 called "White Racism" . Like many other educators in the Age of Trump, Professor Thornhill was targeted by a coordinated campaign of harassment--including death threats that necessitated his needing armed guards outside of his classroom--by the right-wing mob including Fox...
Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Stephen Casmier is the guest on this week's Childish Gambino "This is America" themed episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a professor of English at Saint Louis University and the author of the great essay Donald Glover and Richard Pryor, or the Chokehold of the Minstrel Show which can be read at Medium. During this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Stephen and Chauncey have a wide ranging conversation about black art and black genius, the problems with how concepts such as "intersect...
May 28, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Mark Goulston is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a psychiatrist and author of several best-selling self-help books including Just Listen , Get Out of Your Own Way , and Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life . Dr. Goulston has also been a guest on and his work featured by the CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC News, Oprah, Today, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily and the Los Angeles Ti...
May 20, 2018•1 hr 27 min
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Yale University historian and New York Times -bestselling author Timothy Snyder returns to The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of "On Tyranny" and the new book "The Road to Unfreedom". This is Professor Snyder's fourth appearance on The Chauncey DeVega Show . Professor Snyder and Chauncey discuss how America's democratic institutions are under siege by Donald Trump and the Republican Party's fascist campaign, the wa...
May 14, 2018•1 hr 48 min
There are two guests on this week's Avengers: Infinity War and the secret history of Marvel vs. DC comics themed episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Writer and Hugo-award nominated podcaster Alasdair Stuart is the first guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Alasdair and Chauncey discuss their thoughts on Avengers: Infinity War and what it reveals about the future of the Marvel film universe, the pathos and menace of Josh Brolin as Thanos, and all that Infinity War does so ...
May 06, 2018•1 hr 44 min
