This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Alondra Nelson . She is a Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and author of the new book, The Social Life of DNA . In this week's installment of the podcast, Dr. Nelson and Chauncey talk about DNA, the body, race, and how many African-Americans are using emerging technologies to trace their "roots" across the Black Atlantic. Chauncey and Alondra also discuss how social fictions such as "race" are reproduced in ...
Jun 30, 2016•1 hr 19 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Professor Courtney Baker . She is a professor at Connecticut College and author of the new book, Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death . In this week's installment of the podcast, Dr. Baker and Chauncey talk about police and anti-black violence, the continuity of white on black racial terrorism from Reconstruction and the postbellum era to the present, and if the street vigilante and police killings of T...
Jun 24, 2016•1 hr 30 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show honors Muhammad Ali. To that end, Professor Randy Roberts is the guest on this week's podcast. He is the author of the new book Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X . Dr. Roberts is an expert on social history and American culture whose other works include Joe Louis: Hard Times Man , Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler , Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes and Heavy Justice: The State of Indiana v. Mic...
Jun 17, 2016•1 hr 33 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Claire Conner . She is the author of Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right . This is the second part of our conversation here on The Chauncey DeVega Show . The first episode can be listened to here . Claire Conner is one of the "daughters" of the John Birch Society. In this installment of the podcast, she continues with her great sharing and teaching from last week. Claire tells an amazing story about what it w...
Jun 10, 2016•1 hr 12 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Claire Conner . She is the author of Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right . Claire Conner possesses unique insights about the Republican Party, the John Birch Society, and the broader White Right which she so generously shares during this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Chauncey and Claire discuss what it was like growing up as the child of one of the most influential leaders in the John Birch Societ...
Jun 02, 2016•1 hr 40 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Professor Laurie Essig. She is the author of several books including "American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection . Dr. Essig is also a contributing writer for Psychology Today . In this week's installment of the podcast, Laurie does some great sharing and teaching about how neoliberalism has distorted love, marriage, and other human relationships. Chauncey and Laurie also talk about race and "white" weddings, t...
May 26, 2016•1 hr 50 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests and friends of the podcast. Psychiatrist David Reiss returns to the show and shares his insights and thoughts about the deaths of music legend Prince and professional wrestling trailblazer Chyna and how they are victims of America's epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. Dr. Reiss also shares his experience and wisdom about the challenges of pain management, detoxing, and recovery. Of course, David and Chauncey have to...
May 20, 2016•1 hr 55 min
Richard Rubin is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. This is the second part of my conversation with him about his great book about World War One, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War . In this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Richard continues sharing stories about tracking down the last living American World War One veterans, shares his thoughts about the famed Harlem Hellfighters, gives his insights about traveling to Wo...
May 12, 2016•1 hr 24 min
Richard Rubin is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Richard is the author of the great book about World War One, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War . In the first of this two part conversation, Richard shares his story about tracking down the surviving American veterans of World War One, their insights about life, memories of their time in service some one hundred years ago, what he learned from meeting folks of such advanced a...
May 06, 2016•1 hr 21 min
Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Dave Grossman is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Lt. Colonel Grossman is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of killing and combat. He is the author of several books including On Killing and On Combat . Lt. Colonel Grossman travels approximately 300 days a year, where in seminars and workshops he shares his insights on "killology" with military special forces and elite law enforcemen...
Apr 28, 2016•1 hr 48 min
This special installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show features four different guests in three acts. In the first part of this week's episode Rufus Farmer and Erica Mines, the two African-American activists who Bill Clinton lectured and finger pointed out during a recent rally in Philadelphia, share their on the ground experience(s). Rufus Farmer's and Erica Mines's account of the Philadelphia rally is quite different from how the mainstream corporate news media framed "Black Lives Matter" "protes...
Apr 25, 2016•1 hr 40 min
Professor Joseph Lowndes is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and the author of several books and articles including From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism as well as Race and American Political Development. In this wide ranging conversation, Joe and Chauncey discuss topics such as America's "post-post racial" present and future, the challenge of recon...
Apr 15, 2016•1 hr 45 min
Professor Cedric Johnson is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author/editor of several books including Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics , as well as The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans. Dr. Johnson is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In this expa...
Apr 07, 2016•1 hr 42 min
Paul O'Brien is the guest on this week's special " Wrestlemania " themed episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of the great series of crime noire novels set in the world of professional wrestling called Blood Red Bleeds Dollar Green . Paul is also an accomplished playwright and is working on a TV series and film project. In this fun episode, Paul and Chauncey talk about their mutual love of professional wrestling, share some stories about growing up in the United States and Irel...
Mar 31, 2016•1 hr 45 min
Writer Andrew Heisel is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Andrew's great essays and other work have been featured by such publications and sites as the Washington Post, Jezebel, Slate, LA Review of Books, and Vice Sports. He is a great raconteur. In this week's conversation, Andrew and Chauncey talk about writing, the New England "deflategate" scandal, corruption in professional sports, concussions, "biorhythms", as well as the origins of the 1950's and 1960's era ra...
Mar 24, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Sex educator, BDSM practitioner, and kink expert Mollena Williams is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is the author of the book Playing Well With Others . Mollena Williams also travels across the country (and world) where she gives seminars and lectures on human sexuality, being sex positive, and the pleasures of being open to one's deepest sexual desires. Mollena was recently featured in a New York Times story about her marriage to world renowned composer G...
Mar 17, 2016•1 hr 57 min
In this special installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Chauncey shares his experience at the Chicago Donald Trump "No-Show" Rally. There was much which occurred there that was not accurately reported by the mainstream corporate news media. In this special episode, Chauncey shares how the atmosphere was not as dangerous as depicted by the corporate news media, that the "violence" which did occur was instigated by Donald Trump's minions, and offers a hypothesis about how Il Duce never intended ...
Mar 14, 2016•41 min
Astronomer David Weintraub is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Weintraub is a Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and author of the new book Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? In this fun conversation, Dr. Weintraub and Chauncey talk about "first contact", the challenges of time, speed, and distance in humankind's efforts to travel outside of our solar system, worries about the privatizati...
Mar 10, 2016•1 hr 49 min
Sociologist Allan Johnson is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is part 2 of the conversation which began on last week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Dr. Johnson is the author of many books--non-fiction, memoirs, and fiction--including The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise. He is one of the country's foremost experts on questions of race, gender, and social (in)equality. ...
Mar 03, 2016•1 hr 31 min
Sociologist Allan G. Johnson is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of many books--non-fiction, memoirs, and fiction--including The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy , The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise . He is one of the country's foremost experts on questions of race, gender, and social (in)equality. Dr. Johnson is a wonderful guest who sat with Chauncey DeVega under the learning tree and did some teac...
Feb 25, 2016•1 hr 38 min
Writer and cultural historian Preston Lauterbach is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Preston is the author of the great new book Beale Street Dynasty which examines the intersecting lives, fascinating personalities, the power of the color line, and self-made men in the post-Civil War South. In all, Beale Street Dynasty is an amazing work that reveals a great deal about sex, song, and politics in Memphis, Tennessee, and America, more broadly. Preston does some gr...
Feb 18, 2016•1 hr 27 min
Philosopher David Theo Goldberg is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Goldberg is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers on matters of race and the global color line. He is the author of numerous books and articles including the most recent Are We All 'Post Racial' Yet? . He is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and holds numerous faculty appointments at the University of California-Irvine. Professor Goldberg's ...
Feb 11, 2016•1 hr 41 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 . He is also the subject of a great new documentary called White Like Me . Tim Wise is a great friend of the podcast and Chauncey's other online work. During this, his second sit down at the virtual bar and salon, Tim Wis...
Feb 04, 2016•2 hr 3 min
Documentary filmmaker and writer Sofian Khan is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Sofian's films include The Dickumentary and his newest project The Interpreter . During this fun and educational episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Sofian does some great sharing about the history of the penis, making The Dickumentary , and the interesting personalities he encountered while doing research on male genitalia. Chauncey and Sofian do some sharing about about the great Ro...
Jan 28, 2016•1 hr 41 min
Author and former senior United States Air Force intelligence officer Terry Finnegan is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of the books Shooting the Front: Allied Reconnaissance in the First World Wa r and A Delicate Affair on the Western Front: America Learns How to Fight a Modern War in the Woëvre Trenches . This is a great conversation where Chauncey and Terry discuss American history, warfare, our fathers, family legacies, careers, moral courage, ...
Jan 21, 2016•1 hr 45 min
Dr. Oliver Speck is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Oliver is a professor of Film Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, most recently the new volume Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema . In this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Oliver and Chauncey discuss Tarantino's films, the politics of race and meaning in Django Unchained , media and representation, historica...
Jan 14, 2016•2 hr
David Silverman is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the president of the American Atheists. David is also the author of the new book Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World. He is one of the United States' most prominent voices in favor of a true separation between Church and State. Mr. Silverman is also an unapologetic, proud, "firebrand" atheist, who takes no prisoners. In this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Chauncey and David, of cou...
Jan 08, 2016•1 hr 35 min
This week's New Year's Eve episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is two great shows in one. The first part of the New Year's Eve podcast features a review and discussion of Star Wars: The Force Awakens with friend of the podcast and site Bill the Lizard. Bill and Chauncey have been thinking about, anticipating, and meditating on all things Star Wars for many years. Their conversation about Star Wars: The Force Awakens is more than a basic review. Chauncey and Bill the Lizard talk about how this ne...
Dec 31, 2015•2 hr 12 min
This episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is taking the world by storm. The Chauncey DeVega Show has done several special episodes with friend of the site Bill the Lizard about the new series of Star Wars films. Chauncey and Bill the Lizard have finally seen the new movie. They originally intended to talk for only 20 minutes, but instead ended up with an almost hour long deconstruction of the film, the future of the franchise, and other matt...
Dec 24, 2015•2 hr 14 min
Print author, TV, and film writer Joe Lansdale is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is the second time that "Champion" Joe has stopped by to chat at the virtual bar and he does not disappoint. Chauncey and Joe talked about a huge range of topics including, the new Hap and Leonard book and TV series, Paradise Sky about African-American cowboy Nat Love, Joe's work on the Batman cartoon series, writing Tarzan , thinking about the movie John Carter of Mar s, generat...
Dec 18, 2015•2 hr 33 min
