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Dr Peter Balint is a senior lecturer in International & Political Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. His book, Respecting Toleration Traditional Liberalism and Contemporary Diversity was published recently by Oxford University Press. In our discussion, I mentioned Pastafarianism, the parody religion that … Continue reading "CO039 Peter Balint on Tolerance"

Ryan Alford is an associate professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, Ontario, and he’s also a US-qualified lawyer. He recently published the book Permanent State of Emergency; Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law.

Jerry Newcombe is an author and pastor, who has written The Unstoppbable Jesus Christ and The Book that Made America. In our conversation I mentioned Thomas Paine’s, The Age of Reason and Reason, the Only Oracle of Man by Ethan Allen, both Founding Fathers, and I drew from the more modern book The Faiths of … Continue reading "CO037 Jerry Newcombe on America as a Christian Nation"

Michael Huttner is the co-author of The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump with Markos Moulitsas, published by Disruption Books.  I mentioned Nate Silver’s article Donald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again, which has noted that association with Trump, particularly by the European far-right parties, seems to be hurting them politically.

Dan Kovalik is a human rights, labor rights lawyer and council for United Steelworkers Union.  His new book is called, The Plot to Scapegoat Russia,  (How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia). We also spoke about Dan’s related article, Listen liberals Russia is not our enemy. There is a list of … Continue reading "CO035 Dan Kovalik on the Vilification of Russia"

Richard Stratton is the author of Kingpin: Prisoner of the War on Drugs, and previously wrote Smuggler’s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia. both published by Arcade Publishing.

Tarek Fatah was born in Pakistan, he lives in Canadian now where he is a writer, broadcaster, activist, and writes a weekly column for the Toronto Sun. In our conversation, he mentioned some Muslims naming their children after Timur. *** There’s a video that you should see. It’s a drama made by the BBC, the … Continue reading "CO033 Tarek Fatah on Liberal Islam"

There are show notes from my interview with Rebecca Lemke with Part 1 of this interview. *** I don’t like Julian Assange. I don’t know Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, and I probably shouldn’t make a judgment on him as a person based on what I see of him through the media, but my impression is … Continue reading "CO032 Rebecca Lemke on Purity Culture, Part 2"

Christopher Snowdon is the Head of Lifestyle Economics for the right-leaning Institute of Economic Affairs; he also writes for Spectator Health. I mentioned obesity statistics from the Centres for Disease Control: Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years … Continue reading "CO031 Christopher Snowdon on Fighting Obesity"

Ben Orlin is a math teacher and the writer of the author of the Math With Bad Drawings blog.