Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy . His new article "January 6 Was Only the Beginning" is featured in the July/August 2022 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Sharlet shares what it was like to journey across America into the dark heart of Trumplandia and the MAGAverse, what is a fascist surreal nightmare and a country that feels like it is coming apa...
Jun 27, 2022•2 hr 29 min•Ep. 362
Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic. His new book is The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. His previous work When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone was named book of the year by the Washington Post and The New Yorker. Beckerman reflects on his working-class origins and values, his vocation as a writer and relationship to books and literature, and career and personal lessons learned during his journey to the New York Times and now The Atlantic. As see...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 361
This week's special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show confronts the white supremacist terrorist attack on the black community in Buffalo, New York. Leonce Gaiter's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang". He reflects on questions of justice, black ...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 360
Don Winslow is a bestselling crime fiction author, political activist, a hope warrior, and one of our premiere truth-tellers. His videos about the dangers to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been viewed online more than 250 million times. Don Winslow is the author of many bestselling novels, including "Savages" (2010), "The Cartel" (2015), "The Force" (2017), and "The Border" (2019). His work has also been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. His new ...
May 03, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 359
This episode is in honor of author, journalist, and media critic Eric Boehlert who passed away on April 4, 2022. Chauncey DeVega reflects on Boehlert's life and truth-telling and shares his final article about media malpractice and the Biden administration. Chauncey also reads Will Bunch's wonderful tribute to Eric Boehlert at The Philadelphia Inquirer. This episode of the podcast revisits our conversation with Eric Boehlert from January 2021, several weeks after Trump and his cabal's coup attem...
Apr 19, 2022•44 min•Ep. 358
This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-113-chris-hedges-reflects-on-the-new-censorship-and-authoritarianism-of-the-21st-century Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. He reflects on the sudden deletion of his popular Emmy-award winning RT Network television show "On Contact...
Apr 09, 2022•10 min•Ep. 357
Resmaa Menakem is an artist and psychotherapist. He is the author of several books including The New York Times bestseller My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies . His new book is The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nations Upheaval & Racial Reckoning. He explains how white supremacy and life in a racist society such as the United States has a profound impact on black and brown people's mental, emotional, physical an...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 356
Ted Thornhill is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies He shares what it is like to be under siege by (and resisting) the Republican-fascist Orwellian assaults on higher education as seen with the "critical race theory" white supremacist moral panic and other attacks on the truth and human decency. Ted Thornhill also reflects on the personal, professional, and other costs o...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 355
Jonathan Katz is the author of the new book Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire . His essays and other writing have appeared in such leading publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the New Republic, The Guardian, Mother Jones and Foreign Policy. He is also a recipient of the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism. Jonathan explains the parallels between Donald Trump and his cabal's coup a...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 354
This is a preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report. https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-109-donald-trump-and-the-republican-neofascists-have-pushed-america-to-the-brink-of-a-second-civil-war Barbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism. She is also a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent live guest on...
Feb 06, 2022•11 min•Ep. 353
Leonce Gaiter's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. His essay "The True Story of The Harder They Fall's Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie" was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, "In the Company of Educated Men". Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Ram...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 352
This is a special New Year's Eve 2021 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War . Elliott and Chaunc...
Jan 01, 2022•59 min•Ep. 351
Winfred Rembert was one of America's great contemporary artists. Originally from Cuthbert, Georgia, Rembert painted on carved and tooled leather where he chronicled black life during the Jim Crow terror regime through the lens of his own personal experiences. Rembert's artwork and life story are a testament to the enduring spirit of black Americans and his attempt to live a good life even in the face of much struggle and tragedy. Winfred Rembert would eventually settle in New Haven, Connecticut,...
Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 350
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her opinion essays and other writing have been featured by CNN, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Atlantic. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's most recent book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present . Ruth Ben-Ghiat reflects on how authoritarianism and America's escalating democracy crisis are an attack on the American people's individual and collective emotions, intell...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 349
Brian Klaas is a columnist at The Washington Post, a political scientist, and an associate professor in global politics at University College London. He is the author of several books including The Devil's Accomplice , The Devil's Apprentice , and How to Rig an Election . His new book is Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. Brian Klaas warns that America's political, social, and other institutions are structured to reward and encourage sociopathic and other anti-human and authorita...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 348
This is a preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report which features anti-racism educator, activist, and premier truth-teller Tim Wise. https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-106-the-jim-crow-republican-critical-race-theory-bogeyman-is-powered-by-white-rage. * * * Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Dispatches from the Race War . He explains how white ra...
Nov 09, 2021•8 min•Ep. 347
Emmet Asher-Perrin is a writer and cultural critic. They are also the news and entertainment editor for Tor.com Asher-Perrin critically interrogates the new Dune film and its white savior theme(s) and questions of identity, gender, power, orientalism and cultural appropriation. They also reflect upon Denis Villeneuve's choices in terms of casting, narrative, visual storytelling and character development. Mr. Bill, friend of The Chauncey DeVega Show and expert on all things Dune and science ficti...
Oct 31, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 346
Hello good people! On this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show I am sending up a a signal flare and sharing a sneak preview of The Truth Report. https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-105-how-the-jim-crow-republicans-are-going-to-steal-the-2022-midterm-and-2024-presidential-elections I also update you good and kind members of The Chauncey DeVega Show family about my whereabouts and recent battle with cooties. **** Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has b...
Oct 22, 2021•12 min•Ep. 345
This is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021. **** 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 . Professor Loewen shares his thoughts on the resurrection of the Confederacy in the South and the Republican ...
Oct 11, 2021•48 min•Ep. 344
Kenneth Feinberg served as the Special Master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. He has also been responsible for compensation programs for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, the Virginia Tech massacre, and other tragedies. He is also the subject of the documentary "Playing God" as well as the new Netflix film "Worth". Ken Feinberg reflects on how he navigates the pressures and difficulties of deciding the literal financial value and material worth of a pe...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 343
Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump's niece. She is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man . Her new book is The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal . Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump's enduring power and his ability to cause destruction and other harm to American society and the world. She warns t...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 342
Adilifu Nama is Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several books including Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes . His newest book is I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back . Nama critically interrogates the "new" film "Candyman" and locates it relative to horror genre conventions, cinematic representations of black pain and trauma, and what if anything the film has to offer in terms of a substantive engagement wi...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 341
Norman Solomon is the author of several books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" . He is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Solomon explains how the United States is actually a global empire. He also details how propaganda is used to convince the American people to support war, the country's military industrial complex, and war profiteering. Solomon also reflects on the myth of American Exceptionalism and its ...
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 340
S.A. Cosby is the author of the bestselling crime noir novels "Blacktop Wasteland" and "Razorblade Tears". Cosby reflects on how his upbringing as a striving member of the black working poor in the south helped to teach him lessons about humanity, dignity, and masculinity that guide his life to this day. He also explains the importance of family and the many other good people who mentored him throughout his life and how those relationships influence his writing and storytelling. Cosby also share...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 339
Anthea Butler is the author of the new book White Evangelical Racism . She is also Chair of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her essays and other writing have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, and The Guardian. Professor Butler explains why it is impossible to properly understand White (American) Christianity as something separate and apart from White supremacy. She also detail...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 338
There are two guests on this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Aruna Khilanani is a forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with expertise in violence and racism. Dr. Khilanani shares what it was like to be attacked by the right-wing rage machine because of her recent talk at the Yale University School of Medicine titled "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind". To that end, she explains her argument about the relationship between Whiteness, society, and mental health -- and why her ...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 337
Jared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including "The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage" and "American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People". In this wide-ranging conversation Jared and Chauncey ponder why so many rank-and-file Americans as well as the country's "elites" are in d...
Jul 04, 2021•45 min•Ep. 336
There are two guests on this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi is the author (with Joshua Horwitz) of the new book A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars . He is also a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, and a frequent contributor to the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Hakeem has given multiple TED talks and is regularly invited to speak at science forums all around the world. Hakeem reflects on how he managed to go from ...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 335
Jason Colavito is a professional skeptic and author. His investigations have appeared on the American Heroes Channel and the History Channel. Colavito's essays and commentary have also been featured by The New Republic and other leading publications. His forthcoming book is The Legends of the Pyramids. Jason Colavito explains why today's America is so sick with conspiracy theories and other anti-truth beliefs. He also outlines how right-wing extremists are using the public's interest in ancient ...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 334
Chris Matthews is the former host of "Hardball" on MSNBC. His new book is This Country: My Life in Politics and History. Chris Matthews shares his worries and concerns about American democracy under existential threat from Trumpism and the Jim Crow Republican Party. He also reflects on life lessons, opportunities, the kindness of mentors and strangers, and his long love affair with journalism and politics. And Matthews explains what it means to be a real patriot during a time of great crisis in ...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 333
