Guest: Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World and most recently, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global.

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Guest: Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East, and his latest To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism.

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Guest: Mary Beard is a renown classist and the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius, SPQR, and most lately, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.  

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Host Mitch Jeserich brings live analysis about the voting procedures of the megabill in the House of Representatives while Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivers a marathonic speech that stalled the final vote for more than 8 hours claiming that allotting only one hour of debate on the content of a 900 pages bill was not enough.  He decided to take his “sweet time” to compensate the lack of discussion on the bill.

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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”  His latest article in the Nation is: Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit.

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I. A Perspective on Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign 

Guest: India Walton is former Democratic candidate for mayor in Buffalo who won the Democratic primary 2021 but the party turned against her and helped re-elect the incumbent mayor through a write in campaign.  She is now the senior strategist for the national activist group Roots Action in Buffalo.

II. Capitalism’s Critics

Guest: John Cassidy is a journalist at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI.

Photo by Bingjiefu He on Wikimedia

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I. The Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate

Host Mitch Jeserich gives his opinion of the so called “Big Beautiful Bill” currently in the Senate

II. Supreme Court’s Undoing Universal Injunctions

Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of many books on constitutional law including his latest, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States. 

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Guest: Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.  His numerous books include The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His latest is Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud co authored with Adam Phillips.  He is also the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare.

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Guest: Writer, historian, and activist, Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Orwell’s Roses, and most lately No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.

She cofounded the organization Not Too Late and coauthored the book Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility with Thelma Young Lutunatabua.  She also launched Meditations in an Emergency, an independent publication.

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Guest: D.D. Guttenplan is editor of The Nation magazine.  He is the author of several books including American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone,  The Nation: A Biography, and The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.

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