Virtually Speaking

This week in liberalism.  | Avedon Carol (in for Stuart Zechman) talks with Jay Ackroyd| about Newt Gingrich, celebrity, the jockeying for position among the Republican candidates for POTUS, centrism, neo conservatives and GOP strategy to undermine the New Deal.

This program is pre-recorded

Hr 2. Jaytalks with Corey Robin - associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center about Corey's newest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. His recent Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press), won the Best First Book in Political Theory Award from the American Political Science Association. 

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Dave Waldman aka kagroX steps in for Susie Madrak.

Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.

Avedon Carol and Jay Ackroyd discuss developments of the week, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts,  drawing from their work of the prior week and the wickedly funny Bobblespeak Translations.

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Worth tuning in for Culture of Truth on the Most Outrageous Moment from the Sunday morning talk shows. Follow @Avedon_Says @JayAckroyd @bobblespeak.

Marcy Wheeler and Dave Waldman step in for Susie Madrak  Follow @emptywheel @KagroX @Susie Madrak

Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts. Always informative, always passionate, frequently with a touch of snark.

Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the erosion of the US Bill of Rights being made manifest by the Occupy movements.

Aaron Bady (zunguzungu) has been involved in the Occupy Oakland movement. He joins us to discuss recent developments, and also to place the Occupy movement into a socai socialogical context. His blog is a go to resource for all Occupy Oakland news and analysis.

MIT's Tom Levenson -- Science documentary filmmaker and Director of MIT's Graduate program in writing and humanistic studies -- hosts VS Science on the third Wednesday of the month to discuss history of science, economics, and some climate science.

This week, Tom talks with Seth Mnookin — author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear — about bad science, science and civic conversation, and whether new media will allow us to root out the former and enhance the latter. VS Science is hosted by the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics. Follow @SethMnookin @TomLevenson

Tonight's rebroadcast is an episode where Dave Johnson, of Seeing the Forest and Campaign for America's Future, talks about the Democratic leadership in Congress and the likely outcomes of the Super Committee on the deficit.