The Majority Report with Sam Seder

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2758 - When Men Accidentall...

01.19.2022

Sam and Emma Anna Della Subin, senior editor at Bidoun Projects, to discuss her recent book Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine, on the pervasive and frequently overlooked figure that began popping up at the dawn of “New World” ...

The Majority Report with Sam Seder episodes:

01.19.2022 2758 - When Men Accidentally Become Gods w/ Anna Della Subin Sam and Emma Anna Della Subin, senior editor at Bidoun Projects, to discuss her recent book Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine, on the pervasive and frequently overlooked figure that began popping up at the dawn of “New World” ...
01.18.2022 2757 - The New "Southern Strategy" w/ Angie Maxwell Sam and Emma host Angie Maxwell, associate professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, to discuss her recent book The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, on how the Southern Strategy ...
01.17.2022 2756 - The Martin Luther King Jr. Memory and Legacy in 2021 w/ Gerald Horne Happy MLK Day! Sam chats with Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the University of Houston to discuss his recent book The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing. Then, our compilation of ...
01.14.2022 2755 - SCOTUS Blocks Vaccine Mandate As Government Essentially Ceases To Govern w/ Heather Digby Parton & Francesca Fiorentini It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon.com and proprietor of the blog Hullabaloo, to round up the week in news. Then, Sam and Emma are joined by Francesca Fiorentini, host of The Bitchuation ...
01.13.2022 2754 - The Case Against Compromise w/ Rachel Greenwald-Smith Emma hosts Rachel Greenwald Smith, professor of English at St. Louis University, to discuss her recent book On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of An American Ideal, on compromise in art and politics, and as an American ideal. Professor ...
01.12.2022 2753 - Juul Up In Smoke And The Rise And Fall Of Omicron w/ Jamie Ducharme & Dr. MarkAlain Dery Sam and Emma host Jamie Ducharme, health correspondent at Time, to discuss her recent book Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul. Then, Sam and Emma are joined by Dr. MarkAlain Dery, infectious disease specialist at AccessHealth Louisiana and host ...
01.11.2022 2752 - Biden Marches To Atlanta To Nix The Filibuster, Gets Stood Up By Activists Sam and Emma break down news from the weekend, from developments on COVID to the courts, the Jan 6th commission to labor, and more! They begin by reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the first prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, before ...
01.10.2022 2751 - Abolishing the American Caste System w/ Sheryll Cashin Sam and Emma host Sheryll Cashin, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, to discuss her recent book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality, on how the residential caste system built up around ...
01.07.2022 2750 - Will The Country Just Accept Minority Rule Forever? w/ Osita Nwanevu & Judy Gold It's Casual Friday! Sam hosts Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at The New Republic, to wrap up the week in news and discuss his recent piece in the New York Times, "Trump Isn't the Only One To Blame for the Capitol ...
01.06.2022 2749 - Why The Democrats Still Don't Understand "Party Politics" w/ Adam Hilton Sam hosts Adam Hilton, assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, to discuss his recent book True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party, on how the party apparatus of the Democratic Party went from a three-majority monster ...
01.05.2022 2748 - The Fight To Defeat Privatization w/ Donald Cohen Sam hosts Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, to discuss his recent book The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back that he co-wrote with ...
01.04.2022 2747 - January 6th And The “Modern Jihad” w/ Suzanne Schneider Sam hosts Suzanne Schneider, Deputy Director and Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute, to discuss her recent book The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism, on the evolution of jihad as liberalism took ...
01.03.2022 2746 - 2022: How Badly Can This Year Go For Biden, Dems? Happy 2022! Sam is back from a well-deserved break as he and Matt catch up on the big developments in the news that happened over Christmas and the New Year. They walk through the overwhelming spread of Omicron across New ...
12.31.2021 Best Of 2021: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy & Behind the 'Blue Wall of Silence' with the D.C. Police w/ Adam Jentleson, Rosa Brooks, & David Feldman In the jam-packed FINAL day of the Best Of 2021: Sam hosts Adam Jentleson, former advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to discuss his new book Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American ...
12.30.2021 Best of 2021: Biden's False Pledge for "Decency" in Immigration Policy w/ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar & Ben Gleib Sam and Emma host Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota's 5th District, whose recent book, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman, is out in paperback now! Representative Omar, Sam, and Emma take on a variety ...
12.29.2021 Best of 2021: Haiti, Neocolonialism, and the Moïse Assassination w/ Pascal Robert In today's Best of 2021: Sam and Emma host Pascal Robert of the This is Revolution podcast to discuss the Moïse assassination in Haiti as a product of neoliberalism and colonialism, before they touch on the US’s foreign policy role ...
12.29.2021 Best Of 2021: The Legacies of Slavery Hidden in Plain Sight & America's Long Journey to Recognizing Juneteenth w/ Clint Smith, Annette Gordon-Reed & Jason Myles In today's jam-packed Best of 2021: Sam and Emma host author Clint Smith, staff writer at the Atlantic, to discuss his new book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America on how the ...
12.27.2021 Best of 2021: How 9/11 Permanently Changed American National Security w/ Russ Feingold & David Feldman In today's best of 2021: Sam hosts Russ Feingold, President of the American Constitution Society and former United States Senator from Wisconsin, to discuss the legacy 9/11 has had on the American national security state, and what to expect going ...
12.24.2021 Best Of 2021: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire and An Interview with Donald Trump w/ Andreas Malm, Judy Gold & James Austin Johnson In the first Best Of of 2021: Andreas Malm joins Sam to discuss his new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire. Andreas begins by explaining that while the pandemic has temporarily ...
12.23.2021 2745 - The Last Stand in the War On Christmas w/ Brandon Sutton & Matt Binder It's the FINAL live show of 2021! Emma is joined by Brandon Sutton IN-STUDIO, alongside Matt Binder for the WHOLE show, to round up the week in news, and reflect on the year that was. They begin by covering the ...
12.22.2021 2744 - Stopping Gentrification From Destroying Neighborhoods w/ Joe Margulies Emma hosts Joe Margulies, Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University, to discuss his recent book Thanks For Everything (Now Get Out): Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them? on the never-ending process that is neoliberal gentrification, why it's ...
12.21.2021 2743 - Build Back Better Buried As Omicron Rages: What's Biden's Plan B? Emma and Matt break down a crazy weekend in news, from the breakdown of BBB negotiations to labor, COVID, the courts, and more! Beginning with an update on Omicron, Emma walks through the state of coronavirus, the importance of mRNA ...
12.20.2021 2742 - Conservative Populism and the Gospel of Victimhood w/ Paul Elliott Johnson Emma hosts Paul Elliott Johnson, Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Pittsburgh, to discuss his recent book I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism, on the transformation of the conservative populist movements over the last century, and ...
12.17.2021 2741 - Has Biden Actually Done Anything In BBB Negotiations? w/ Alex Pareene & Matthew Film Guy It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Alex Pareene, contributing editor at the New Republic and proprietor of the AP newsletter on Substack to round up the week in news. They kick off the show with updates on the Kellogg’s ...
12.16.2021 2740 - The U.S. Right-Wing Paranoia We're Stuck With w/ Ted H. Miller Emma hosts Ted H. Miller, associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, to discuss his recent book A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism, on the anti-communist paranoia that helped found the educational ...
12.15.2021 2739 - What You Need To Know For Your Future w/ James W. Russell Sam hosts James W. Russell, public policy affiliate scholar at Portland State University, to discuss his recent book The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans: For Union Organizers and Employees, on the importance of fighting for good end-of-life security and how ...
12.14.2021 2738 - The Jan. 6th Fox News Text Chain With Meadows And Hasan Piker On A Cracker w/ Hasan Piker Sam breaks down what's to come in the week in news, from the continuing Build Back Better negotiations to updates on the court, labor, COVID and more! Sam is then joined by newly Twitch-banned Hasan Piker! He and the MR ...
12.13.2021 2737 - The Myth of the "Good War" w/ Elizabeth Samet Sam and Emma host Elizabeth Samet, professor of English at West Point, to discuss her recent book Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness, on the mythology behind the Americanized narrative of WWII, how ...
12.10.2021 2736 - What Is The Endgame Of The January 6th Commission? w/ Heather Digby Parton & Andy Kindler It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon and proprietor of the Hullaballoo blog, to round up the week in news. Sam and Emma start out by commemorating the historic Starbucks union vote in ...
12.09.2021 2735 - The New American Aristocracy w/ Matthew Stewart Emma hosts philosopher and historian Matthew Stewart to discuss his recent book The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality And Warping Our Culture, on the class of people that cement the divide between the top .1%, and ...
12.08.2021 2734 - American Capitalism In 4 Different Ages w/ Jonathan Levy Sam and Emma host Jonathan Levy, professor of History at the University of Chicago, to discuss his recent book Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States. Sam and Emma begin by discussing the newly passed defense policy ...
12.07.2021 2733 - The Mass Work Exodus And Lina Khan's First Big Stand At The FTC w/ David Dayen Sam and Emma host David Dayen, Executive Editor at The American Prospect, to discuss his recent project "The Great Escape", about the mass quitting trend in the labor market, as well as his new piece "Lina Khan Cashes in Her ...
12.06.2021 2732 - How And Why Generations Of Women Have Struggled To Balance Work And Family w/ Claudia Goldin Sam and Emma host Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, to discuss her recent book Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity, on the history of women’s entry into the workforce and how they transitioned from a ...
12.03.2021 2731 - Will The 6-3 SCOTUS Finally Gut Roe? w/ Natalie Shure It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Natalie Shure, columnist at the New Republic and health policy expert, to discuss developments in federal health policy to expect with upcoming legislation and Supreme Court decisions. They begin with the state of ...
12.02.2021 2730 - How The Rich Rigged Our Tax Code With "Opportunity Zones" w/ David Wessel Emma hosts David Wessel, senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, to discuss his recent book Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age., and how bipartisan legislation on Opportunity Zones has created ...
12.01.2021 2729 - The Ideas Behind "Participatory Economics" w/ Michael Albert Sam and Emma host economist Michael Albert to discuss his recent book No Bosses: A New Economy For A Better World, on his theory of a third option of an allocation system, beyond free-markets and central planning, based around values ...
11.30.2021 2728 - A Dramatic New Understanding of Human History w/ David Wengrow Sam and Emma host David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London, to discuss his recent book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity that he co-authored with David Graeber. They begin by clarifying what the ...
11.29.2021 2727 - The Post-Thanksgiving Push Towards The Debt Cliff (Again) And A Government Shutdown This Friday Sam and Emma catch up on the big Thanksgiving weekend's worth of news! They begin by looking forwards, running through what we might see in the upcoming Senate session, before Sam reflects on the anniversary of Mike Cernovich’s attempted canceling ...
11.26.2021 2726 - Return the National Parks To Indigenous People & The Steven Donzinger Case w/ David Treuer & James North Sam sits down with Ojibwe author and historian David Treuer, author of the piece "Return the National Parks to the Tribes" in The Atlantic. Then, Emma sits down with James North, reporter at The Nation, to discuss his work covering ...
11.24.2021 2725 - The Campaigns Against the Post Office and American Democracy w/ Christopher W. Shaw Sam sits down with historian Christopher W. Shaw, to discuss his recent book First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, on the rise of one of the most popular public services, and its precarious state in ...
11.23.2021 2724 - How To Explain The Explosive Growth Of School Vouchers In The U.S. w/ Ursula Hackett Emma hosts Ursula Hackett, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Royal Holloway University of London, to discuss her recent book America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide The State. Emma starts the show by touching upon the seemingly endless Chris ...
11.22.2021 2723 - Violence and Truth After Emancipation w/ William A. Blair Sam hosts William A. Blair, Professor of Middle American History at Penn State University, to discuss his recent book The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction, on how the ...
11.19.2021 2722 - What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong About "Structural Racism" w/ Jamelle Bouie, Jamie Peck & Jorge Rocha Sam hosts Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist at the New York Times and co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast, to wrap up the week in news! And in the second half, Sam is joined by Jamie Peck, in her ...
11.18.2021 2721 - The Next Stages of the Opioid Epidemic w/ Sam Quinones Emma hosts journalist Sam Quinones, to discuss his recent book The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, taking on the wave of synthetic drugs moving across North America over the ...
11.17.2021 2720 - The Importance of Insects to Our Survival w/ Dave Goulson Sam and Emma host Dave Goulson, professor of biology at the University of Sussex, to discuss his recent book Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse, on the rampant decline of insect populations worldwide over the last few decades, and how ...
11.16.2021 2719 - CBO Score Purgatory Sam and Emma break down what's to come in the week in news, from the reconciliation negotiations on the Hill, to updates on labor, the courts, and climate. They begin by covering the religious reaction to Universal Pre-K’s non-discrimination requirement, ...
11.15.2021 2718 - Cold War Defense Spending and How It Transformed Politics w/ Michael Brenes Sam and Emma host Michael Brenes, history lecturer at Yale University, to discuss his recent book For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy, on how the Cold War helped to ingrain the military-industrial ...
11.13.2021 2717 - Casual Friday w/ Heather Digby Parton & David Roth It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon and proprietor of the Hullaballoo blog. Digby, Sam, and Emma jump right into recent news surrounding the January 6th committee, as the infrastructure and reconciliation fights ...
11.13.2021 2717 - Casual Friday w/ Heather Digby Parton & David Roth It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon and proprietor of the Hullaballoo blog. Digby, Sam, and Emma jump right into recent news surrounding the January 6th committee, as the infrastructure and reconciliation fights ...
11.11.2021 2716 - Inflation, Gas Prices, And A Green Transition w/ Ryan Cooper Emma hosts Ryan Cooper, national correspondent for The Week, to discuss his recent piece "The Most Underrated Part of the Electric Revolution", on the connections between inflation and a green transition, and how making a shift away from gases and ...

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2758 - When Men Accidentally Become Gods w/ Anna Della Subin

2757 - The New "Southern Strategy" w/ Angie Maxwell

2756 - The Martin Luther King Jr. Memory and Legacy in 2021 w/ Gerald Horne

2755 - SCOTUS Blocks Vaccine Mandate As Government Essentially Ceases To Govern w/ Heather Digby Parton & Francesca Fiorentini

2754 - The Case Against Compromise w/ Rachel Greenwald-Smith

2753 - Juul Up In Smoke And The Rise And Fall Of Omicron w/ Jamie Ducharme & Dr. MarkAlain Dery

2752 - Biden Marches To Atlanta To Nix The Filibuster, Gets Stood Up By Activists

2751 - Abolishing the American Caste System w/ Sheryll Cashin

2750 - Will The Country Just Accept Minority Rule Forever? w/ Osita Nwanevu & Judy Gold

2749 - Why The Democrats Still Don't Understand "Party Politics" w/ Adam Hilton

2748 - The Fight To Defeat Privatization w/ Donald Cohen

2747 - January 6th And The “Modern Jihad” w/ Suzanne Schneider

2746 - 2022: How Badly Can This Year Go For Biden, Dems?

Best Of 2021: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy & Behind the 'Blue Wall of Silence' with the D.C. Police w/ Adam Jentleson, Rosa Brooks, & David Feldman

Best of 2021: Biden's False Pledge for "Decency" in Immigration Policy w/ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar & Ben Gleib

Best of 2021: Haiti, Neocolonialism, and the Moïse Assassination w/ Pascal Robert

Best Of 2021: The Legacies of Slavery Hidden in Plain Sight & America's Long Journey to Recognizing Juneteenth w/ Clint Smith, Annette Gordon-Reed & Jason Myles

Best of 2021: How 9/11 Permanently Changed American National Security w/ Russ Feingold & David Feldman

Best Of 2021: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire and An Interview with Donald Trump w/ Andreas Malm, Judy Gold & James Austin Johnson

2745 - The Last Stand in the War On Christmas w/ Brandon Sutton & Matt Binder

2744 - Stopping Gentrification From Destroying Neighborhoods w/ Joe Margulies

2743 - Build Back Better Buried As Omicron Rages: What's Biden's Plan B?

2742 - Conservative Populism and the Gospel of Victimhood w/ Paul Elliott Johnson

2741 - Has Biden Actually Done Anything In BBB Negotiations? w/ Alex Pareene & Matthew Film Guy

2740 - The U.S. Right-Wing Paranoia We're Stuck With w/ Ted H. Miller

2739 - What You Need To Know For Your Future w/ James W. Russell

2738 - The Jan. 6th Fox News Text Chain With Meadows And Hasan Piker On A Cracker w/ Hasan Piker

2737 - The Myth of the "Good War" w/ Elizabeth Samet

2736 - What Is The Endgame Of The January 6th Commission? w/ Heather Digby Parton & Andy Kindler

2735 - The New American Aristocracy w/ Matthew Stewart

2734 - American Capitalism In 4 Different Ages w/ Jonathan Levy

2733 - The Mass Work Exodus And Lina Khan's First Big Stand At The FTC w/ David Dayen

2732 - How And Why Generations Of Women Have Struggled To Balance Work And Family w/ Claudia Goldin

2731 - Will The 6-3 SCOTUS Finally Gut Roe? w/ Natalie Shure

2730 - How The Rich Rigged Our Tax Code With "Opportunity Zones" w/ David Wessel

2729 - The Ideas Behind "Participatory Economics" w/ Michael Albert

2728 - A Dramatic New Understanding of Human History w/ David Wengrow

2727 - The Post-Thanksgiving Push Towards The Debt Cliff (Again) And A Government Shutdown This Friday

2726 - Return the National Parks To Indigenous People & The Steven Donzinger Case w/ David Treuer & James North

2725 - The Campaigns Against the Post Office and American Democracy w/ Christopher W. Shaw

2724 - How To Explain The Explosive Growth Of School Vouchers In The U.S. w/ Ursula Hackett

2723 - Violence and Truth After Emancipation w/ William A. Blair

2722 - What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong About "Structural Racism" w/ Jamelle Bouie, Jamie Peck & Jorge Rocha

2721 - The Next Stages of the Opioid Epidemic w/ Sam Quinones

2720 - The Importance of Insects to Our Survival w/ Dave Goulson

2719 - CBO Score Purgatory

2718 - Cold War Defense Spending and How It Transformed Politics w/ Michael Brenes

2717 - Casual Friday w/ Heather Digby Parton & David Roth

2717 - Casual Friday w/ Heather Digby Parton & David Roth

2716 - Inflation, Gas Prices, And A Green Transition w/ Ryan Cooper