There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Jen Senko is the director of the 2015 documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad . She shares her thoughts on the new CBS News/YouGov poll that shows how Donald Trump's followers trust him more than their friends, family members, and religious leaders . In essence, and once again, Donald Trump is the leader of a fascist political cult. Jen Senko also reflects on the impact of her very prescient documentary given Trump's crimin...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 392
Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President . Dr. Frank shares his expert insights about Donald Trump's mind and how the ex-president's mental pathologies and other unwell behavior are shaping his response to being criminally indicted for his many alleged crimes including Jan. 6 and his attempted coup attempt to end American democracy. In the end, Dr. Frank ...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 391
Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. He is the author of many books, including his most recent "Dispatches From the Race War." He explains how the recent Supreme Court decision against affirmative action, Ron DeSantis' fascist-authoritarian war on Black America's real history (slavery was a "job skills "program) and real struggles and real triumphs, and Donald Trump and the MAGA movement's enduring power are all connected as part of a much larger proj...
Aug 02, 2023•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 390
There are two guests in this episode of the podcast. John Blake is a senior writer and producer at CNN and the author of the new book More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew. John reflects on vulnerability and the vocation of writing, life journeys and life wisdom, the people who made us, how the personal is truly the political, navigating and surviving the color line and questions of belonging and identity. He also shares the importance of finding ...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 389
This is a special surprise July 4th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . On this special episode, Chauncey takes a journey around his neighborhood and shares some stories about the interesting, good, bad, and other fascinating people he encountered and the lessons he learned about inner beauty and dignity. He also shares his thoughts about the recent AEW Forbidden Door pay-per-view event, watching the reality TV show 90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days on TLC with his mother and the mysterious an...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 388
Prison journalist John J. Lennon is currently serving a 28-years-to-life sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility for murder, drug sales and gun possession. He is a contributing editor at Esquire and a contributing writer at the Marshall Project. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post Magazine , The New York Review of Books , The Atlantic , Esquire , Sports Illustrated , and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging conversation John J. Lennon discusses the craft of w...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 387
Jonathan Eig is an award-winning author and journalist whose books include Ali: A Life and Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig . His new book is King: A Life . In this wide-ranging conversation, Jonathan emphasizes the real and complex Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as opposed to the man who has been made into a secular saint, what it was like to be a trustee of such a legacy and life, and how the real and complex and flawed man who did amazing things is so much more interesting and inspi...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 386
This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-126-mark-jacob-explains-how-americas-mainstream-news-media-surrendered-to-donald-trump-and-the-republican-fascist-movement Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He reflects on his decades-long career in the news media and what he learned about that institution's failings and how it helped...
May 25, 2023•11 min•Ep. 385
In honor of Star Wars and the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi , friend of the podcast and fellow traveler Mr. Bill is the special guest on this eclectic episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Chauncey DeVega and Mr. Bill reflect on their four-decade-long relationship with all things Star Wars and how they feel as men of a certain vintage about George Lucas's great gift to the world, why they love it so much, and how that love and relationship went so wrong with Disney's takeover. They also...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 384
Jason Van Tatenhove is former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee. His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why We Should be Concerned about a Future Civil War. In this wide-ranging conversation Jason reflects on his life decisions and mistakes and how he found himself radicalized by the Oath Keepe...
Apr 25, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 383
Nate Powell is a graphic novelist and musician. He is also the first cartoonist to win the National Book Award. Nate Powell has also won four Eisner Awards. His work includes Ozark horror tale Come Again , civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up Run , comics essay About Face , and graphic novels Two Dead , Any Empire , and Swallow Me Whole . Nate's new book is Save It For Later . He reflects on how America's culture of the 1980s with the rise of Reaganism, toys like GI Joe,...
Mar 31, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 382
"V" formerly known as Eve Ensler is an author, Tony Award-winner, playwright and activist. Her award-winning play The Vagina Monologues ran for more than 10 years and has been performed in more than 140 countries. "V"s new book is Reckoning. "V" warns that the United States is sick with a type of pathological amnesia that facilitates evil and cruelty. "V" also reflects on how we must use specific and correct moral language about sexism, white supremacy, misogyny, patriarchy, and other antihuman ...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 381
Nicholas Dawidoff is a journalist and author whose books include The Fly Swatter, In the Country of Country , and The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg . His new book is The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City, which is about gun violence and life chances in New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven is now considered a type of demographically representative city that social scientists study to understand trends across America. Nicholas Dawidoff ...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 380
Chris Hedges is the guest on this special February 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His two most recent books are Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison and The Greatest Evil is War . ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Chris Hedges reflects on the lessons he learned during hi...
Feb 14, 2023•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 379
There are two guests on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of several books including Race After Technology and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. She explains how technology is...
Jan 31, 2023•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 378
Brian K. Vaughan is the guest on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the writer of such award-winning comic books and graphic novels as Saga , Y: The Last Man , Ex Machina and Paper Girls . ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Brian reflects on the return of Saga after an extended hiatus and the great and painful changes that have befallen the beloved ch...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 377
Thomas Ricks is the guest on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Your generosity and support helps to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of several books including The Generals , The Gambl e, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco . Thomas Ricks' new book is Waging A Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1968...
Jan 10, 2023•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 376
Mark Galeotti is one of the world's leading experts on Russia, transnational crime and military affairs. He is the author of many books, including The Weaponisation of Everything , A Short History of Russia, and We Need to Talk About Putin . His new book is Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine . Galeotti explains how Russia's war against Ukraine is a cruel "laboratory" for the hyper-lethal realities of modern warfare, why Russia's military has underperformed so badly, and how "hot takes" and t...
Dec 14, 2022•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 375
On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times. Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using gratitude and thankfulness as a type of energy and fuel in what will be a long struggle against neofascism and to create a true we the people democracy here in the United States. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https:/...
Nov 24, 2022•37 min•Ep. 374
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 forthcoming book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Sharlet reflects on the meaning of the 2022 midterms and how the American people voted to slow down the Republican fascist assault on their democracy and by doing so won an important reprieve in what will be a very long struggle. He also counse...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 373
David Neiwert is an investigative journalist. He is the author of numerous books including Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump , The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right , and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us . His forthcoming book is The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy . Neiwert warns that there is a high potential for right-wing violence in response to th...
Nov 07, 2022•48 min•Ep. 372
Baynard Woods is the author of the new book Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness . His essays and other writing have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and many other publications. In this conversation, he reflects on the meaning of whiteness in American society and questions of denial, privilege, and responsibility. Baynard also explains how white racial identity has been created, sustained, and protected through a type of conspiratorial silence and violenc...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 371
Nicole Hemmer is a political historian and founding director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency at Vanderbilt University. She is the cofounder of the Made by History section of the Washington Post. Hemmer's writing has also been featured by the New York Times, CNN, and Politico. Her new book is Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s . Hemmer explains how the Age of Trump and the rise of American neofascism ...
Oct 13, 2022•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 370
Dr. Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital about the horrible choices that doctors had to make as Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans. Dr. Fink reflects of the challenges of managing one's ups and downs during difficult times such as the coronavirus pandemic and the Age of Trump, the importance of coping mechanisms such as gallows humor, and how doctor...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 369
Colleen Shaddox is the co-author (with Joanne Goldblum) of the book Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty. Her essays and other writing have been featured by NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other leading publications and media outlets. In this wide-ranging conversation, Colleen Shaddox reflects on her journey to becoming an activist and truth-teller about poverty and other forms of social inequality and injustice in America. Shaddox highlights the import...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 368
This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-119-the-south-side-of-chicago-is-not-a-problem-to-be-solved-it-is-a-home-for-the-american-spirit Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B Ransford Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. His books include Floating City and Gang Leader for a Day . Sudhir Venkatesh's new book is The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a C...
Sep 07, 2022•15 min•Ep. 367
Brynn Tannehill is a leading trans activist and essayist. She has written for such leading publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Advocate. Tannehill is a former United States Naval Aviator and officer who also served as a campaign analyst for the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain. After leaving the military, she worked as a senior defense research scientist in private industry. Tannehill is the author of several books including American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverti...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 366
There are two guests on this WWE SummerSlam weekend episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show Jason Aaron is the writer of such comics books and graphic novels as Thor , Star Wars , Avengers , Punisher , Conan The Barbarian , The Goddamned , Sea of Stars , and many other popular must-read titles. The new Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: Love and Thunder was heavily inspired by Aaron's The Mighty Thor and Thor: God of Thunder . Jason Aaron reflects on his journey from "breaking into" the comic book...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 365
This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-117-america-is-in-great-pain-and-on-a-horrible-journey-and-white-racial-innocence-wil-not-save-it Eddie Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include "Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul", "In a Shade of Blue: Prag...
Jul 21, 2022•12 min•Ep. 364
This week's very special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show focuses on Baz Luhrmann's new movie Elvis and the life, music, legend, meaning, and enduring importance of "The King" Elvis Presley. "Champion" Joe Lansdale is the award-winning author of more than 50 novels including the amazing Hap and Leonard series. His Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, Bubba Ho-Tep , was made into a movie of the same name by Don Coscarelli and featured Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Joe Lansdale shares what it...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 363
