Hope Frye is a human rights attorney who has been defending the human dignity and civil rights of migrants, refugees and other groups of vulnerable people for 40 years. Hope became involved when she chaired the Board of Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law and now leads teams of lawyers and doctors into ORR, ICE and CBP detention facilities to monitor compliance with the landmark 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement governing the treatment of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children. T...
Jul 07, 2019•53 min•Ep. 244
Bryan Edward Hill is the writer of such comic books as the Batman Detective Comics series, Batman and the Outsiders , and also Michael Cray . His newest project is American Carnage. Bryan shares his thoughts on the rise of Trump, the New Right, and making art and telling the truth in this moment. He also explains the connections between existential angst, extremism, and why men and boys join such groups as ISIS and white supremacist organizations. Chauncey and Bryan also reflect on fandom and "r...
Jul 01, 2019•56 min•Ep. 243
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Michael Wolff is the author of the bestselling book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House . His new book is Siege: Trump Under Fire . He explains the real reason why Special Counsel Robert Mueller decided to not indict Donald Trump for obstruction of justice. And will Donald Trump leave the White House if defeated in 2020? Dr. John Gartner is a contributor to the 2017 bestselling book The Dangerous Case of Donald Tru...
Jun 22, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 242
Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies . Dr. Diamond's new book is Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis . In addition to many other honors, Dr. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius award. Dr. Diamond highlights the four factors that could end America's global dominance, how societies and their ...
Jun 18, 2019•53 min•Ep. 241
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega is my new podcast. It is a companion to The Chauncey DeVega Show . The Truth Report will feature many of the same great conversations on a weekly (or twice weekly) basis as The Chauncey DeVega Show . But The Truth Report is more "traditional" and will not feature my extended analyses of the week's events and other commentary. You can find The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega at Apple Podcasts, Itunes, and the other places you download your other favorite po...
Jun 13, 2019•20 min
W. Kamau Bell is a comedian who is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell . Kamau's writing has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, CNN.com and The LA Review of Books. Kamau reflects on what it means to tell the truth about a very divided America, why the Democrats must pursue bold action to stop Donald Trump, the reasons that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is such an important voice an...
Jun 06, 2019•54 min•Ep. 240
Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk , winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Fountain traveled across the country during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to document that political and social disaster as it took place in real time. The result is his most recent book Beautiful Country Burn Again . Fountain explains the deep and burning rage in America from a lack of hope and limited dr...
Jun 01, 2019•51 min•Ep. 239
Malcolm Nance is one of the leading voices who for several years has been sounding the alarm about Donald Trump and his coterie's connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs and spies. Nance was a career intelligence and counterterrorism officer who has 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...
May 23, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 238
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Paul Sturtevant is the founder and Editor-in-chief of The Public Medievalist and the author of the book The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination: Memory, Film and Medievalism . Paul is also a Visitor Research Specialist for the Smithsonian Institution. Paul reflects on how the "high fantasy" genre which includes Game of Thrones , Lord of the Rings as well as games such as Dungeons & Dragons help to teach the public lesso...
May 19, 2019•1 hr 27 min
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Ira Steven Behr was the showrunner and executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . He is also the co-director and executive producer of the new documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Behr has also been a writer and executive producer on the HBO series Outlander . He reflects on the origins of Deep Space Nine , what he learned from the new documentary What We Left Behind , the c...
May 12, 2019•1 hr 29 min
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He is the author of several books, including Prozac on the Couch and The Protest Psychosis . His new book is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland . Dr. Metzl shares what it was like...
May 04, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Kathleen Belew is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and the author of the new book Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Belew explains white supremacy is a cultural, social and political problem rather than just the pathology of a relatively small number of people, what "white power" really means, and how white supremacist and other right-wing foot soldiers, activists, and enablers are engaging in and preparing for various forms of "race war" a...
Apr 27, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Metzl is the author of several books, including Prozac on the Couch and The Protest Psychosis . His new book is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland . Metzl explains how Trump's voters in Red State America are literally dying of whiteness and their devoti...
Apr 21, 2019•1 hr
Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and was also an economic adviser to Barack Obama. Dr. Reich has written fifteen books, including the best sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage, and, his most recent, The Common Good. He is also the co-creator of the award-winning documentary, Inequality For All as well as the Netflix original documentary Savin...
Apr 13, 2019•52 min
This week's very special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show explores the politics and meaning of Jordan Peele's new film "Us". Kendall Phillips is a professor at Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture as well as Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film . Kendall explains how "Us" is part of a new golden age of American horror movies, the ways that horror movies reflect the ...
Apr 05, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Laurence Tribe is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard University. Tribe is also the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of several books including his most recent (co-written with Joshua Matz) To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment . Professor Tribe explains that impeachment will not stop Donald Trump and why the Democrats should instead use investigations and hearings to stop his assault on democracy. Tribe also offered a warning--now fulfil...
Mar 25, 2019•1 hr
Tim Wise returns for the second installment of a two-part conversation here on 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 . Time Wise explains how the "Varsity Blues" college and university admissions cheating and bribery scandal reflects a pathological culture among America's white elites, the many ways that unearned white advantages and white privile...
Mar 22, 2019•1 hr
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show focuses on the white supremacist neo-Nazi terror massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand which killed at least 50 people and left 50 others injured. 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 . Wise explains how the New Zealand terror attack is an example of the ways that whiteness and white privilege are experiencing a global existe...
Mar 16, 2019•58 min
Chris Hedges returns for a second conversation. He is the author of the new book America: The Farewell Tour . Hedges is also the author of other 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 . Hedges explains how the Michael Cohen hearings before Congress are just another sy...
Mar 08, 2019•58 min
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Vegas Tenold is the author of the new book Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America. He is an award-winning journalist who has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict in central Africa and the Middle East, and national security. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, his work has appeared in publications including th...
Mar 02, 2019•1 hr 10 min
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Bandy Lee is a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and one of the principle editors of the New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President . She continues to warn the public about how Donald Trump's mental health is a threat to world peace, how his fake "national emergency" is an extension of his apparent mental illnesses, explains the knot of...
Feb 22, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Professor Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He has published two books on the history of personal debt ( Debtor Nation and Borrow ) and a history of how American work became so insecure ( Temp ). Several months ago Louis wrote a series of Twitter posts which were read by millions of people about the "hidden history" of how African-Americans used the Sears catalog as ...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Eddie Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America . In 2006, he worked with Cornel West to develop a public online course called the "Covenant Curriculum: A Study of Black Democratic Action." Professor Glaude has also written for The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Time...
Feb 07, 2019•1 hr
David Leonard is Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of numerous books and articles on race, politics, popular culture and sports including After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness . David explains how sports are inherently political, why Colin Kaepernick is viewed as such a threat by the NFL and White America, Black Lives Matter and "taking a knee" at sporting events, the black athlete as a ...
Jan 31, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Tim Wise is one of the United States' leading anti-racism activists, authors, and scholars. He 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 . Wise explains how the Covington High School Trump mob's racist mocking and harassment of Native American elder Nathan Phillips in Washington, D.C. is an example of white privilege in action, how white racial innocence is presumed to always be operati...
Jan 24, 2019•1 hr 28 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". Dr. Snyder explains how Donald Trump will--like other dictators and authoritarians--use his "national emergency" to overthrow American democracy and the Constitution, why "states of exception" are so very dangerous for democracies, a...
Jan 17, 2019•1 hr 29 min
Peter Bebergal writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe. His essays and reviews have appeared in NewYorker.com, The Times Literary Supplement, Boing Boing, The Believer, and The Quietus. He is the author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll . His new book is Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural . ****To support The Chauncey DeVega Show during this fundraising month you can make a donation via Paypal at chau...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Paul Breines was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin and a member of the Student Council on Civil Rights when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. As part of the Freedom Ride Breines, along with three other students, traveled from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi via a Greyhound bus where all four participants were arrested in the Greyhound terminal in Jackson, Mississippi on 21 July 1961. Paul Breines is als...
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 17 min
David Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. He is also the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Professor Blight is the author of many books including his newest Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom . Professor Blight is also a contributing writer for such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Bo...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 24 min
Seth Abramson is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America . Abramson's work and commentary has also been featured by The Washington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, USA Today, NPR, Politico, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, Newsweek and many other news outlets. To support The ...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 9 min
