Deeper Dive - DSU's podcast

After years of intense negotiations, the United States and ten other countries have reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is the largest regional trade agreement in history and it will create the largest free-trade alliance in the world. It will also accelerate a series of economic and political changes that are re-writing the global economic, legal, and political reality. Make no mistake, whether you agree or not, the TPP is another step in the re-creation of trans-national economic and political processes and institutions. In this podcast, Professor Dungey and Walker place the TPP in a deeper historical and theoretical context. This is critical information.

In this discussion, Walker and Professor Dungey discuss three flash points between Religion and Politics that sparked this week. First, Kim Davis is back in the news. Second, we discuss Ben Carson's controversial observation that he would not be comfortable with a Muslim President, and we finish with a discussion of Ted Cruz's extraordinary desire to return the question of the legality of gay and lesbian marriage back to the states. Our discussion unfolds against the backdrop of Boehner's decision on Friday to resign as Speaker of the House. Let the hunger games begin

In this episode, Walker and Professor Dungey discuss the current religious, philosophical, and political drama surrounding Kim Davis' assertion that she will obey "God's authority," and resist Federal law and authority. We will examine Davis' view from the perspective of the Theologico-political crisis, Liberal Political theory as a response to the potential social and political conflict that derives from debates about "what God wants," and why this is potentially so dangerous.

This podcast was recorded April 12th 2015, when Rand Paul announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. At the time we at DSU were interested in exploring Paul's claim that the purpose of his candidacy was to "take back our country," as he put it. As usual, we approached Paul's claim about "our country" from the political-philosophical point of view and tried to put the claim in a deeper, broader philosophical perspective. Now, 5 months later, in the eye of the political/legal/philosophical storm unleashed by Donald Trump, we are amazed how relevant the discussion really is! Enjoy.

In the past month, Donald Trump has turned the political world upside down. In the process he has ignited a firestorm around the debate of political correctness and right to possesses and assert his opinion. In this podcast we examine "The Donald's" opinions and speech from the point of view of JS. Mill's defense of free thought and speech.

In our most recent podcast, Nick and walker examine the protests in Baltimore from the perspective of John Locke's account of Revolution.

Nick and Walker continue the Brian Williams discussion and dive into the deeper implications of the news as entertainment from a Machiavellian perspective.

Freedom of religion or a gross misinterpretation of the Constitution? In this episode of Deeper Dive Nick and Walker discuss where the Indian state legislators went wrong and what critical piece of the founding of the country they got wrong.

Nick and Walker discuss the Brian Williams debacle as they take an opposing view of the incident that got the newscaster suspended.

On January 19, Oxfam, the British Non-Profit Agency that tracks global poverty, released a report that shocked the world: 85 of the wealthiest people in the world own more wealth than 50% of the world's population. Put another way: 85 individuals own more wealth than 3.5 billion people. How is this possible? What does it mean? And, where is this leading? In this podcast Walker and Professor Dungey discuss the Oxfam report and put it in the context of our previous podcasts on wealth and Elite influence on public policy.

http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-01-19/richest-1-will-own-more-all-rest-2016