Ana Kasparian On How the Right Manufactured a Culture War Against Abortion
Ana traces the history of how the right wing turned the evangelicals on to culture war, and continues to use it as a wedge issue.
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Ben fields a viewer question about Dawkins' recent controversial interview in which he proclaimed himself a 'cultural Christian' and despaired about the increase of Islam in the U.K.
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Cory Doctorow stops by the program to discuss his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. He lays out to Ben a persuasive case of how monopolization in the tech industry is leading to life-threatening consequences -- often in the name of defending "intellectual property."
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Nathan J. Robinson (https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson), editor of “Current Affairs” (https://twitter.com/CurAffairs) (https://www.currentaffairs.org/subscribe) and columnist for “The Guardian,” (https://twitter.com/guardian) (https://support.theguardian.com/us/support) joins Ben Burgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis) to discuss why Glenn Beck’s book is so ridiculous and terrible yet effective and “good” from a right-wing viewpoint.
A central part of this discussion is how important it is to know how to debunk Glenn Beck’s ridiculous arguments.
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Ben, Matt, and Andy break down everything wrong about Jordan Peterson defending Trump and endorsing Ron DeSantis during a recient interview with Piers Morgan.
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Excerpted from a midterm election-night stream, a debate arises over both trans rights, and their salience to winning elections.
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Ben and Lillian break down the Marxist theory of exploitation, how it differs from "oppression," and how they might update the theory.
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After a fresh Twitter dust-up between Ben and capitalism defender Sabine Hossenfelder, Ben doubles down on his recent article that explains how wrong Sabine Hossenfelder is about the nature of capitalism.
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The philosopher Harry Frankfurt died last month. His work fundamentally changed the map of the philosophical debate on free will and moral responsibility. Ben and Stefan discuss Ben's essay:
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Richard Wolff describes how Madrigan has developed a point system that allows workers to choose who moves around and Bologna's mixed capitalist and co-op system.
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