A rant, Christopher Sweat

We’ve been covering a lot of protest and political action-related events in Manhattan, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., and are now expanding our reach nationally. Ryan Lazarus heads out New York City coverage. He captured this footage earlier this evening. Be on the lookout for more from us here on Substack. We want to engage you. For more real time analysis and content follow us here:https://www.t...

May Day is a chance for the global left to come together and gain clarity on the direction of movements. It serves as a consistent coordination point each year. The core idea of May Day is to recognize the challenges labor has faced over the years, especially since the onset of the fourth industrial revolution. One concern, which I express in this video, for labor movements internationally is that...

Watch the video to learn more, and here are a few brief notes on my thoughts. In just six seconds, law enforcement chose to shoot seven or eight bullets into an innocent man in Douglas County, Colorado. While we don't live in a police state, the police have not been held accountable for their reckless and life-ending mistake. I'll share my thoughts on this issue and how these situations undermine...

As you know, I have been closely following the calls for Palestinian liberation and the protest movements in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.. After a disruption at a Downers Grove, IL town hall hosted by Rep Sean Casten, I interviewed Nick Sous, one of the local Chicago leaders at U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), to get his perspective. Nick explains some of the tactics and stra...

I was on the ground covering the TeslaTakedown protest in Chicago. Later this week, we will release footage from 13 other cities. This video focuses on Chicago. In fact, you’ll see I got into it with protestors after a group was harassing Chicago PD for about 15 minutes. This movement was primarily catalyzed by shareholders’ activism. Elon Musk has been neglecting his role as the CEO of Tesla, a p...

A note on the video… I wanted to run it raw. No editing is needed. You can see the protest footage up close and personal. There’s no need for me to twist it like the mainstream media does. A rant, Christopher Sweat is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Now, in the video Jinan Chehade speaks mid-March on Michigan Av...

In this episode, I host Lee Edwards, a General Partner at Root Ventures in San Francisco. We discuss the political scene in San Francisco, the impact of AI on labor, Tesla, Waymo, the education system, and how we have traditionally adapted to disruptive technology. Lee invests in engineers who are starting companies that tackle the hard problems in software, such as developer tools and services, s...

I host Dr. Kaleb Demerew to speak again, this time about a highly relevant topic, Red Sea Rivalries which he published here - https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/red-sea-rivalries/ This is a fascinating discussion that talks about the social, political, and maritime history of the Red Sea region, including European and Middle Eastern influence on the waterway. We discuss the Houthis in Yemen,...

It was awesome to host Pyotr for a nuanced and informative discussion on the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict. We dug deep into domestic U.S. politics, Russia foreign policy, Ukraine foreign policy, political polarization and more. I hope you enjoy it! You can find more from Pyort here: https://twitter.com/PKurzin https://www.youtube.com/@theglobalgambit/videos Get full access to GrayStak Media at...

I hosted Mark Blyth, Brown University, and Sven Steinmo, University of Colorado Boulder (you remember Sven from his piece, Trump is not the Problem ) to discuss their perspectives on austerity, democracy, dictators, protest, populism, knowledge economy, technology, advanced economies, and more! We dug deep into political dynamics in France, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, the United States, Israel, China...

Written by Sven Steinmo There is a lot of hand-wringing today about Donald Trump's potential to get elected as the next president of the United States (again). It's not only that people dislike his grandiose and narcissistic personality. Nor is it even that they fear that he will be on the ballot in November. The real fear these days is that he will undermine our hallowed Constitution. After all t...

You can play the recording here or watch our conversation on YouTube! Dr. Kaleb Demerew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at West Texas A&M. I saw his paper, Can Institutions Explain Mass Violence? Amhara ‘Settler’ Discourse and Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia, and I reached out immediately to host him as our recent conversations have focused on in...

Dr. Sven Steinmo joins me to discuss his background and to expand on why he thinks evolutionary theory has viable application in politics, as well as creating an entire sub-category of political science known as historical institutionalism. Dr. Steinmo will be an ongoing contributor to the platform as we inch closer and closer to the coming election. We will be hosting him and his peers for many d...

Negin is a long-time friend of mine and someone whose perspective I value. She started her career as a journalist in Iran and later moved to London to join BBC Persia as a news presenter on-air, where she worked for over a decade. More recently, she formed a community organizing and political activist network called Azadi Network, which in English means Freedom Network. Her critiques of the Irania...

You can play the audio in the player above or click here to watch the video of our conversation on YouTube! We talked about cosmology, string theory, joining Joe Rogan on his podcast, Eric Weisteins's call for physicists to come together and build new solutions and theories, hanging out with Ben Shapiro, academic freedom, and the ongoing situation in Israel. I hope you enjoy it! You can find Dr Br...

Hi everyone. I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format as well. Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead. Get full access to GrayStak Media at christophersweat.substack.com/subscribe

Hi everyone. I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format. Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead. Get full access to GrayStak Media at christophersweat.substack.com/subscribe

Hi everyone. I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format as well. Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead. Get full access to GrayStak Media at christophersweat.substack.com/subscribe

Hi everyone. I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format. Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead. Get full access to GrayStak Media at christophersweat.substack.com/subscribe

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Razib Khan is a brilliant mind with a fascinating perspective on genetics, history, and society. I have been a long-time listener and reader of Razib’s, so it was nothing short of an honor to host him. We use some explicit language on the podcast, but Razib discusses how he got into genetics, his views on politics, and some of his interpretations of data. His takes can ruffle feathers, but he does...

This is a fascinating conversation I hosted with Anna George, a DPhil doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OIO.) Anna has a social data science, statistics, and organizational-social psychology background. We discuss hate groups, political extremists, and how this behavior occurs online. I share some of the overlaps in my political science studies and discuss various political moveme...

Cathy Fawaz is a Ph. D. candidate at the Regent’s University London, and her research focuses on political communications around the world. We discuss Cathy’s pathway to her Ph. D., growing up in Lebanon, sectarian politics, hard-right movements, and the influence political communication strategies in the United States have on other parts of the world. Feel free to follow Cathy on Linkedin by clic...

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