Be Bold, America!

KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT)    Is there a larger problem than Donald Trump’s “Big Lie?” David Pepper’s “Laboratories of Autocracy” shows that far more than the high-profile antics of D.C. politicians like Marjorie Taylor Green or Jim Jordan that there is an even bigger challenge to American […]

“ The Life of William Grimes: The Runaway Slave” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) “Let anyone suppose himself a husband and father, possessed of a house, home, and livelihood: a stranger enters that house; before his children, and in fair daylight, puts the chain on his leg, where […]

“Smart Politics: Stop arguing. Stop avoiding. Start making a difference!”  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) Do you dread talking politics with your Republican family? Many of us hate the idea of having political conversations with our Republican family members. We may even avoid them to keep peace. If you’re worried […]

“Policing, Vigilantes, and White Supremacy” “Be Bold America!” December 5, 2021 at 5:00pm (PT) Every day we are drifting farther to the political right as a minority of the country uses brute force to undermine the basic tenets of our democracy. This perspective is to win at all costs, as though we live in a […]

“The Post Office is Under Attack! Why Does Louis DeJoy Want to Destroy It?” “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 21 2021 at 5:00pm (PT)  “It’s [USPS] one of America’s most trusted institutions that Americans rely on every single day in this country. And this is an essential service that we think many of us have taken […]

“The End of White Christian America” “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 5:00pm (PT) For most of the country’s history, white Christian America – a cultural and political identity built primarily by white Protestant Christians – set the tone for our national policy and shaped American ideals. But in recent decades this has […]

“Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy”  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 5:00pm “Frank Schaeffer has written a revolutionary manifesto for our deeply troubled world. “ – Laura Dawn, Filmmaker, founding cultural director, MoveOn.org   From NY Times Bestselling Author Frank Schaeffer, Comes a Post-Pandemic Blueprint for […]

“The Decarbonization Imperative” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 5:00pm “Climate change is a challenge of our lifetimes. If we fail to act, and act soon, we risk leaving our children a world in which humany’s ability to flourish will be severely tested. “ – Michael Lenox & Rebecca Duff Time […]

“The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich” “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 5:00pm “For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people – one that has caused trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s,” says Thom […]

“The Bizarre, Undemocratic, Upside-Down Political News”  “Be Bold America!”  September 12, 2021 @ 5:00pm Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” If you have been observing and taking it all in, then you now realize that our American democracy is taking its last breaths. For over four decades, Republicans have been intentionally […]

“The Web of Meaning” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 5:00pm Who am I? Why am I? How should I live? These are some of the oldest questions humans have grappled with. In our modern, high-tech society we may seem to have the answers. After all, hasn’t science shown that humans are hardwired for selfishness? […]

“Demystifying Shariah and How It’s Not Taking Over Our Country” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 1, 2021 at 5:00pm   Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist wrongly that shariah is a draconian and oppressive Islamic law that all Muslims must abide by. They circulate horror stories, encouraging Americans to fear the “takeover of [...

“One Race: The Human Race” Be Bold America!  Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 5:00pm The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968 was the catalyst for a young elementary school teacher in Riceville, Iowa to want to teach her class the next day about diversity. The lesson plan she created to do so became known […]

“Freedom and Liberty For All” – What Does It Really Mean? KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 5:00pm “The real threat to our future is Biden and the well-heeled powerful forces who want us to lose sight of what made America great in the first place. It’s not our diversity. It’s our […]

“Democracy Abandoned with Governor Don Siegelman” Tune in to this very special interview with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman  KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 5:00pm Charles Blow, New York Times ~ May 14, 2021 opinion column excerpts: “Democracy cannot exist in a society in which nearly half the participants have […]

“The Pandemic Year: Mothers in Crisis” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 9 2021 at 5:00pm “My husband and I felt we were going to have a heart attack.” – Allison Guevara  As a special Mothers Day program, we’ll be speaking with Allison Guevara who is a wife and a mother of three. […]

“Cancel Culture: Weaponizing Voting, Dr. Seuss, Democrats and Pizza  Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 5:00pm  Fox News spent more than twice as much time discussing Dr. Seuss being “canceled” as covering major news on vaccine distribution and the FBI Director’s testimony on the January 6 attack on the U.S. […]

“Radical Humility” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 5:00pm  What does humility mean and why does it matter in age of golden escalators and billionaire entrepreneurs? How can the cultivation of humility empower us to see success in failure, to fight against injustice, to stretch beyond our usual ways of […]

“From Divide-and-Conquer to Unite and Prevail” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 5:00pm “We the people must oversee what our overseers have been overlooking.” — Swami Beyondananda Now that the most toxic election of our lifetime seems to be resolved, let us congratulate ourselves on making the better of two […]

“ How Can We Move Forward From The Big Lie?” Podcast fact correction: 59% (not 49%) of Democrats view Republicans as the “political opposition.” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 5:00pm “Be Bold America! will be celebrating its 2nd birthday on February 14 as KSQD90.7FM enters its 3rd year on […]

“ How Can We Move Forward From The Big Lie?” Podcast fact correction: 59% (not 49%) of Democrats view Republicans as the “political opposition.” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 5:00pm “Be Bold America! will be celebrating its 2nd birthday on February 14 as KSQD90.7FM enters its 3rd year on […]

“The Hidden History of American Oligarchy” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 31 2021 at 5:00pm   At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we […]

“Dangerous and Unprincipled: Fox News” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 17 2021 at 5:00pm “Like someone dying of thirst in the desert, conservatives drank heavily from the Fox waters.” – Bruce Bartlett, 2015 There is a difference between news and propaganda. We have hauntingly witnessed the rot in American politics with the […]

Listener Testimonial: Oh WOW Jill, Jeremy Lent’s on your show?  Even without its being Lent, the “Five Conspiracies” program sounds, like all your shows, illuminating and provocative. But Lent — oh my! I’m a big fan of his The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning (2017) is epic in scope “The Five […]

“Strongmen: Why Authoritarian Leaders Succeed and How They Fall” (Post program note: Many of us have wondered how so many women can support Donald Trump? Dr. Ruth Ben- Ghiat provides the answer!) Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an international, award-winning, scholar on authoritarianism and fascism who told Don Lemon on CNN Tonight, during the October 2019 […]