Give Them An Argument

Ben answers some Q&A questions and reads an unpublished fragment by Michael Brooks.

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Michael Brooks died a year ago on Tuesday. After an interview with Richard Wolff on his most recent book and how he thinks we can move beyond capitalism, the rest of the episode is  devoted to a Michael tribute. Joshua Kahn Russell joined for the postgame for patrons

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NYMag's Eric Levitz makes an argument about how the left talks about crime. It's good stuff.

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Jacobin Magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunrayray) and Age of Napoleon host E.M. Rummage (@Trillburne) join Ben for a special Bastille Day bonus episode on the French Revolution and its enduring significance for emancipatory politics.

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Ben talks to the crew about Cuba. Pascal Robert talks about Haiti.

Ben's Cuba article:

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/us-emb...

Pascal Robert is the co-host of the This is Revolution podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9W...

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Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic joins Ben to discuss the life of anti-war former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel. To access the full episode become a GTAA patron at patreon.com/benburgis.

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Left-wing history and foreign policy gurus Djene Bajalan and Kuba Wriesniewski join Ben to weigh in on all the recent discourse about Stalin (and to talk about FDR a bit while they're at it). Ben explains why he's been gone.

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Ben had to be gone tonight due to a family situation. Cale Brooks & Harvey J. Kaye kindly stepped in with a History Q&A.

It has somewhat recently come to light that the NFL created a different scoring scale for Black players versus players of other races when it came to deciding how affected a player was by traumatic brain injuries occurring during their time on in the NFL. If a player was Black, they needed to demonstrate a higher level of impaired cognitive function than players of other races. Strangely, this has made a lot of people angry, confused, and just totally baffled, not least because the NFL freely admitted it when confronted with this fact. They were, to paraphrase, “Yes, we are doing this.”

Roberto Aspholm and Cedric Johnson wrote an excellent article about it, connecting the old-school biological racism of NFL to the liberal embrace of "disparity ideology." You should read it--and listen to the interview with Roberto!

https://nonsite.org/betting-on-the-greek-how-the-nfl-is-banking-on-biological-racism/

This is a preview from Patron-Only Season 2 Episode 15.

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Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks and Jacobin's Weekends show, Jason Myles of the This Is Revolution podcast, and some members of Buffalo DSA join Ben to talk about everything that's going on this week--from India Walton's stunning victory in Buffalo to why police privatization is a uniquely horrifying idea. There's also a preview of the bonus episode with Roberto Aspholm (dropping for patrons on Thursday),  a breakdown of Dennis Prager's thoughts about socialism, and a preview of Ben's discussion with Glenn Greenwald (re-airing on the GTAA YouTube channel on Thursday).

Here's the Lucky Black Cat video that was mentioned in the Prager U debunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfrKOYKyXWw

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