Episode 35: Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is a co-founder of the radical left-wing organization, the Weather Underground. He is a self-described “small-C” communist, an activist, and a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Bill and Jamie discuss a wide range of topics, including Bill’s political views, Bill’s dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency, and Jamie’s own dinner with Bill in 2012.

Show Notes

• About Bill Ayers’ political alignment, his views on voting, and who he has voted for in the past
• On Donald Trump’s appeal as a leader and his authoritarian tendencies
• Why Bill admires Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela
• How he describes his ideology: “small-c communism”
• His opinion of the Antifa movement
• What Bill’s agenda would be if he was elected president
• Why he thinks that Barack Obama and every other American president are war criminals
• About abolition of the prison system
• On Bill’s dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency
• His opinion of Dinesh D’Souza
• The historical leaders Bill admires the most
• Bill’s favorite authors
• On Jamie’s dinner with Bill Ayers, Matt Labash, Andrew Breitbart, Tucker Carlson, and others.
• On Andrew Breitbart’s proposed road trip with Bill

Links

• Bill Ayers’ Website
• 28 Jamie Kirchick – On Trump’s NATO Stance and Weakening of Europe
• The Fire Next Time
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama