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Bad Faith

America's only podcast. // with Briahna Joy Gray, former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaign // Subscribe for exclusive premium episodes at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast / @badfaithpod / badfaithpodcast at gmail dot com

Episodes

Episode 367 Promo - The Kids Are All Right (w/ Prem Thakkar)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The Intercept ’s Prem Thakkar has been covering college campus reactions to Israel’s war on Gaza for months , and he joins Bad Faith to detail how we got to the tumult that has occurred over the past week—snipers on roofs, valedictorians banned, professors body slammed to the ground by cops, and presidential candidates arrested . Subscribe to Bad Faith on ...

Apr 29, 2024•7 min•Ep 367•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 366 - A Progressive Vision for a Post-Neoliberal World (w/ Bill Mitchell)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Bill Mitchell , professor of economics at the University of Newcastle and the man who coined the term Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) , joins Bad Faith to explain how liberals failed to resist the rise of neoliberalism, how conservatives were able to wrest back control after the progressive movements of the first half of the 20th century, and how progressives can offer an alter...

Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep 366•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 365 Promo - Hate Re-Think (w/ Zaid Jilani)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist Zaid Jilani joins Bad Faith to elaborate on his recent controversial criticisms of Matt Taibbi . Are leftists simply angry that they can't control where Taibbi's interests have taken his reporting? Or has Taibbi taken a reactionary approach in response to bad faith attacks from liberals -- and, if so, is he justified? Is the left correct in mour...

Apr 22, 2024•7 min•Ep 365•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 364 - Pro-Israel "Safetyism" Attack Threatens College Speech (w/ Natasha Lennard)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Intercept columnist and New School professor Natasha Lennard weighs in on the campus battle over pro-Palestine speech and how claims of feeling "unsafe" by pro-Israel students are being used to ban calls for Palestinian liberation. Is the left simply reaping what it has sown in making arguments about speech-related violence on campus? Or are there ways to distinguish real fr...

Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep 364•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 363 Promo - Will Labor Bear Fruit? (w/ Hamilton Nolan)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan joins Bad Faith to discuss the left's shifting attitude toward immigration with respect to the concerns about the impact of immigrant workers on domestic wages. Does defending domestic workers have to come at the expense of immigrants? And does the shift on this issue reflect a larger rightward shift among online left commen...

Apr 15, 2024•7 min•Ep 363•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 362 - Daddy's Home (w/ Mouin Rabani)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya Mouin Rabbani joins Bad Faith to discuss his epic debate with politics streamer Destiny/Benny Morris , the post-World Central Kitchen "vibe shift" on Israel, and the gruesome revelation that Israel is using an AI program to generate "targets" to strike while they are at home with their families -- a.k.a. program "Daddy's Home." ...

Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep 362•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 361 Promo - A Thing Called Destiny (w/ Norman Finkelstein)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In a conversation sprawling over two hours, friend of the pod and preeminent Gaza historian Norman Finkelstein returns to Bad Faith to unpack his recent debate with Twitch streamer Destiny (Steven Bonnell) and historian Benny Morris on Lex Fridman Podcast , the latest on the sexual assault allegations against Hamas, Norm's mother's experience testifying ag...

Apr 08, 2024•8 min•Ep 361•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 360 - Big Bad Bibi (w/ Katie Halper)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Perennial favorite Katie Halper returns to Bad Faith to talk Rami Youseff's Pro-Palestine SNL speech , Steven A. Smith dunking on Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Israel's targeted attack on three humanitarian aid vehicles who were delivering much needed food aid to Gazans. Also discussed: Reports that Israel is threatening hostage families not to speak out, and the worst ga...

Apr 04, 2024•59 min•Ep 360•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 359 Promo - Haiti Myths Dispelled (w/ Dan Cohen)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Documentarian Dan Cohen reports on what he learned on the ground in Haiti through interviews with politician, former police officer, and gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier . Chérizer has been smeared as a cannibal by Elon Musk and some western media outlets, but is the portrait of him as a revolutionary leader closer to the truth? Dan walks us through ...

Apr 01, 2024•7 min•Ep 359•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 358 - Capital Controls (w/ Steve Maher)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Unlike in 2020 & 2016, a prescriptive progressive economic agenda hasn't been thrust into mainstream consideration this election cycle. Rather, any talk of the economy has largely centered around questions of inflation: whether Biden is or isn't making it better, and whether leftists are overstating the cost of living struggles of working people. This week, Professor of Econ...

Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep 358•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 357 Promo - Death Doula (w/ Marianne Williamson)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 2024 Presidential candidate and bestselling author Marianne Williamson returns to Bad Faith to explain why she unsuspended her campaign , what she makes of RFK’s success, and how her politics toward Israel bear on her approach to the crisis in Gaza. She reflects on past criticism from the left -- including Norm Finkelstein and RBN -- and debates the charac...

Mar 25, 2024•7 min•Ep 357•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 356 - It's Time to Talk About The DRC

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast We're long overdue for an episode on the humanitarian crisis facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clashes between armed groups, resource wars, a post-colonial legacy of foreign interference -- Jason Sterns , Assistant Professor of International Studies and founder of the Advisory Board of Congo Research Group, and Christoph Vogel , former UN Security Council expert o...

Mar 21, 2024•1 hr•Ep 356•Transcript available on Metacast