The Chauncey DeVega Show

This week's very special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show explores the politics and meaning of Jordan Peele's new film "Us". Kendall Phillips is a professor at Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture as well as Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film . Kendall explains how...

Laurence Tribe is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard University. Tribe is also the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of several books including his most recent (co-written with Joshua Matz) To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment . Professor Tribe explains that impeachment will not stop Donald Trump and why the Democrats should instead use in...

Tim Wise returns for the second installment of a two-part conversation here on The Chauncey DeVega Show . Tim Wise is the author of numerous books including his most recent  Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America . Time Wise explains how the "Varsity Blues" college and university admissions cheating and bribery scandal reflects a pathological...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show focuses on the white supremacist neo-Nazi terror massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand which killed at least 50 people and left 50 others injured. Tim Wise is the author of numerous books including his most recent  Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America . Wise explains how the New Zealand terror...

Chris Hedges returns for a second conversation. He is the author of the new book  America: The Farewell Tour . Hedges is also the author of other award winning books including  Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle ,  Death of a Liberal Class ,  War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning ,  American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America , and  Days of Destru...

There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Vegas Tenold is the author of the new book Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America. He is an award-winning journalist who has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict in central Africa and the Middle East, and national security. A gradua...

There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show .  Bandy Lee is a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and one of the principle editors of the New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President .  She continues to warn the public about how Donald Trump's mental health is a threat to world peace, ho...

Professor Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He has published two books on the history of personal debt ( Debtor Nation and Borrow ) and a history of how American work became so insecure ( Temp ). Several months ago Louis wrote a series of Twitter posts which were read...

Eddie Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include  Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul  and  In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America . In 2006, he worked with Cornel West to develop a public online course called the "Covenant Curriculum: A Study of Black Demo...

David Leonard is Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of numerous books and articles on race, politics, popular culture and sports including After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness . David explains how sports are inherently political, why Colin Kaepernick is viewed as such a threat by the NFL a...

Tim Wise is one of the United States' leading anti-racism activists, authors, and scholars. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent  Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America . Wise explains how the Covington High School Trump mob's racist mocking and harassment of Native American elder Nathan Phillips in Washington, D.C. is...

There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Yale University historian and  New York Times -bestselling author Timothy Snyder returns to  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of "On Tyranny" and the new book "The Road to Unfreedom". Dr. Snyder explains how Donald Trump will--like other dictators and authoritarians--use his "national emergency" to overthrow Ameri...

Peter Bebergal writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe. His essays and reviews have appeared in NewYorker.com, The Times Literary Supplement, Boing Boing, The Believer, and The Quietus. He is the author of  Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll . His new book is Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural .    ****To s...

Paul Breines was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin and a member of the Student Council on Civil Rights when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. As part of the Freedom Ride Breines, along with three other students, traveled from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi via a Greyhound bus where all four participants...

David Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. He is also the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Professor Blight is the author of many books including his newest Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom . Professor Blight is also a contributing writer for such publications as The New York Times, Washington...

Seth Abramson is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America . Abramson's work and commentary has also been featured by The Washington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, USA Today, NPR, Politico, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The...

There are three guests on this week's special December fundraising month episode of the podcast.  Julie Snyder is the co-creator and producer of the hit podcast series Serial . Emmanuel Dzotsi is the co-host and reporter for Serial's most recent season which focused on crime and punishment in America as revealed through what happens at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in Cleveland.  To su...

There are two guests on this week's podcast. James Loewen is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me . He has also written award-winning books such as  Sundown Towns , Teaching What Really Happened , and  The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader .   In his several decades of teaching and scholarship Professor Loewen has traveled around the United States and world giving lectur...

There are two guests on this week's podcast. James Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama and the author of the acclaimed biography First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong . Dr. Hansen has also served on the Research Advisory Board of the National Air and Space Museum and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Institution Press. Hansen shares his thoughts on the ne...

There are two guests on this week's podcast. Psychiatrist Justin Frank returns to The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch  and Obama on the Couch . His newest book is Trump on the C...

Ian Haney Lopez is The Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley and author many articles and numerous books including White by Law and his most recent Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Lopez is also a Senior Fellow at Demos in addition to being the Director of The Haas Institute's Racial Politics...

David Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle and a contributing writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is the author of numerous books including the new Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump , The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right , Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us , Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election...

Chris Hedges is the author of the new book America: The Farewell Tour . He is also the author of numerous award winning books including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle , Death of a Liberal Class , War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning , American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America , and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt . Chris Hedges and Chau...

Max Boot  is the author of numerous bestselling books including The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam , The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power , War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today and Invisible Armies: The Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present . His newest book is e...

Joel Rose is the author of such acclaimed novels as Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster and The Blackest Bird . He is also a dear and close friend of the late, great and very much missed Anthony Bourdain. Their friendship was also a creative partnership. Together they co-wrote The New York Times bestselling graphic novel Jiro Dreams of Sushi and its prequel Get Jiro! Blood and Sushi . Joel and Anthony's fi...