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My podcast interviews have been going a bit long, so I thought I’d break out some of the segments for people to pick and choose from. Here’s David Kaib from Ep. 2, answering the question, “What is socialism?”

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Last week I had the chance to interview David Kaib, the organizer of the DC Jacobin Reading Group, and co-organizer of the Metro DC DSA Socialist Night School. David is a bit of a lowkey firebrand whose calm, earnest demeanor help convey reasonable propositions that might otherwise seem scary to some.
In our discussion, David and I talked about the current state (read here: train wreck) of US politics, abolition, political education, and some of the interesting things he’s been reading lately. Give this a listen and I promise you’ll learn plenty.

(Here’s a clip, in case you need a little convincing.)

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I had a great conversation with @DavidKaib this morning. We talked about the current state of politics in the US, abolition, and political education among many other things. I'm getting to work cleaning up the recording and will share it soon. For now, here’s a brief teaser in which I asked David how to handle the relentless stream of bad news that is US politics.

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I sat down last week to record the first Wicked Problems and Circular Systems podcast with Jonathan Cohn, an old friend and the editor of my books. We’re currently collaborating on WPC Book #2: What do we do after the pandemic?

Jonathan does a variety of interesting work both professionally as the Managing Editor of the Tellus Institute’s Great Transition Initiative, as well as an extraordinary array of roles supporting a variety of political campaigns and related causes.

We talked about the interesting books he’s read recently, as well as his assessment of the state of US politics. (I asked him if he thought the US would hold elections, and if so, would they be clean?) We also discussed the core challenges in US politics and Jonathan shared some thoughts on what needs to happen to send us in a better direction. If you give it a listen, I’m sure you’ll learn a lot from him. I certainly did.

Background track: Never Forget by Ketsa

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