Aldofph Reed Jr. has taught at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School for Social Research and he has written on racial and economic inequality. He is a contributing editor to The New Republic and has been a frequent contributor to The Progressive, The Nation, and other left-wing publications. He is a founding member of the U.S. Labor Party. Also, well-known historian and archaeologist Dilean MacSearraigh and hosting this podcast is Irish Traveller Bernard Sweeney.