Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

In the 3rd installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam explains our endorsement of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (gasp!!!) and explores the true Centrist, Moderate nature of the great experiment called America.

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Filmmaker AJ Schnack has documented some of the biggest election cycle moments of the last 10 years. From his award-winning films Caucus and Nomination to his 2016 Amazon Series Primaries, A.J. transports us to the front lines of American politics.

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In the 2nd installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam examines how bullying culture has become the norm since the 2016 election and shares insights into the bleak outlook for the Dems in the upcoming Midterms.

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Ruth is a professor, author, historian and cultural critic. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other fellowships, is an expert on fascism, authoritarianism, war, propaganda, and Donald Trump. And she’s just getting started…Her book, Strongmen: Mussolini to Present, is an in-depth look at the blueprint authoritarian leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and hopefully prevent yet another (cough *Trump cough cough) disastrous rule in the future.

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The number of people in prisons and jails has increased 500% over the last 40 years, resulting in prison overcrowding, fiscal burdens on states, and an enormous strain on the imprisoned individuals, their families, and communities. Nicole Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, sits down with Adam to discuss the work they do as advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.

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What happens when you put a gay, Jewish, Tony Award winning, politically homeless podcast host from Miami in conversation with a born and bred Missourian podcast host who’s tagline is “fuck ‘em”? Fire. You get, fire.

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Born in Scotland, Ben is a gay, Jewish, internationally renowned author, educator and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion specialist focusing on Jewish identity, combatting Jew-hatred and raising awareness of the Holocaust. He is the founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement and the author of the Jewish Pride manifesto, Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, released in February 2021 to great international acclaim. Ben and Adam discuss anti-Zionism, Israel, and the complexities of being a modern day Jew. 

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One of the country’s foremost education and employment law attorneys, having formerly served as Deputy General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. during the Trump administration, Candice comes to discuss how she navigates a world in which she is a lesbian, a mother, and a renowned attorney with some very specific viewpoints that may not immediately make sense to some, but of which she is fully and intelligently behind. 

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Historian and Professor Peter Fritzsche lays out how an unimaginable political transformation can quickly take an authoritarian turn as it did in Germany in 1933. Adam and Professor Fritzsche discuss how the Nazi’s courted support by cultivating the electorate’s paranoia and gullibility-2 traits that are more compatible than they sound, and some might say, the same traits throughout the underbelly of the January 6th insurrection. Professor Fritzsche’s latest book, Hitler’s First 100 Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich, serves as the jumping off point for this eye opening discussion. 

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Steven B. Smith’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, highlights how the concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has now become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an “us versus them” worldview, while on the left, patriotism is seen as an impediment to acknowledging important ethnic, religious, or racial identities and a threat to cosmopolitan globalism. Adam and Professor Smith unpack how patriotism is something democratic societies cannot afford to do without.

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