The Chauncey DeVega Show

Dr. Justin Frank is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than forty years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books "Bush on the Couch" as well as "Obama on the Couch". Dr. Frank's new book is "Trump on the Couch". Dr. Frank's work has appeared in Time Magazine and at the Daily Beast. He has...

Bandy Lee is a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and one of the principle editors of the New York Times bestseller T he Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President . On this week's show, Dr. Lee and Chauncey discuss how Donald Trump's mental health continues to worsen, how insiders from the White House reached out to her last year--well befo...

Carl Hart  is the Chair of the Department of Psychology at  Columbia University . Professor Hart is also the Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. Professor Hart has published numerous scientific and popular articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology and is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior (with Charles Ksir). His most recent...

Safiya Noble  is the guest on this week's edition of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication and the author of the new book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism . On this week's show, Safiya and Chauncey discuss how algorithms such as Google as well as "artificial intelligence" are actu...

Anti-racism activist, author, and scholar  Tim Wise  is the guest on this week's edition of  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 . On this week's show, Tim and Chauncey discuss Donald Trump's obsessions with "white genocide" in South Africa, the...

Bryan Edward Hill is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show .  He is the writer of such comic books as the Batman Detective Comics series and also Michael Cray . His newest project is American Carnage which is forthcoming from Vertigo. In addition to writing comic books Bryan is also a TV writer whose credits include Ash vs. The Evil Dead .   On this week's show, Bryan and C...

Joe Feagin is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is part two of our conversation which began on last week's very special 200th show. He is a distinguished professor of sociology at Texas A&M University and one of the leading scholars of race and social inequality in the world. Professor Feagin has written dozens of books including  The White Racial Frame:Centuries...

There are two guests on part one of this very special two-part 200th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show .   Kevin Willmott is a professor of film at The University of Kansas. He is also one of the writers on Spike Lee's great new film BlacKkKlansman . Kevin and Chauncey discuss the surreal truth of how Ron Stallworth, a black man, teamed up with a fellow police officer, who is Jewish, to infiltra...

Richard Frankel is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show.     He is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and the author of numerous articles as well as the book Bismarck's Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945 . Frankel's work can also be read at Newsweek and the History News Network .  During this we...

Eothen "Egon" Alapatt is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show .    He is the founder and president of Now-Again Records, the reissue imprint he founded in 2002. He oversees all of the label's reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. He is the creative director of the  J. Dilla...

Gary Lachman is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show .   He is the author of several books and has lectured across the United States, Britain and Europe on the relationship between consciousness, esoteric knowledge, politics, history and culture. He is perhaps best known as a founding member of the New York new wave band  Blondie , in which he played bass from 1975 to 1977...

Malcolm Nance is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a career intelligence and counterterrorism officer for the United States government. In his more than three decades working in that capacity, Nance served with U.S. Special Operations forces, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. He has worked in the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, Sout...

Richard Painter  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Painter was White House chief ethics counsel under George W. Bush and is a frequent political commentator and analyst on CNN, MSNBC and other news networks. He is also a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books including " Getting the Government America Deserves. " A...

Rob Rogers  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a nationally-syndicated political cartoonist who worked with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper for 25 years before being fired several weeks ago. Why? Because he refused to stop telling truth about Donald Trump .   During this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , Rob Rogers and Chauncey discuss the personal...

Michael Eric Dyson is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and the author of many books including What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America as well as Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America .  Dr. Dyson is also a frequent guest on Real Ti...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two guests.  Professor Edgar Feuchtwanger is a Jewish historian who grew up across the street from Adolph Hitler and witnessed the rise of the Nazism and its evil firsthand. Professor Feuchtwanger shares the memories of that dark time from a child's perspective and with a historian's insight in his new book Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a...

Ted Thornhill is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University who received national attention because he dared to teach  a course in January 2018 called "White Racism" . Like many other educators in the Age of Trump, Professor Thornhill was targeted by a coordinated campaign of harassment--including death threats th...

Stephen Casmier is the guest on this week's Childish Gambino "This is America" themed episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a professor of English at Saint Louis University and the author of the great essay Donald Glover and Richard Pryor, or the Chokehold of the Minstrel Show which can be read at Medium. During this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , Stephen and Chauncey have a wide ra...

Mark Goulston is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a psychiatrist and author of several best-selling self-help books including Just Listen , Get Out of Your Own Way , and Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life .  Dr. Goulston has also been a guest on and his work featured by the CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC News, Oprah, T...

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". This is Professor Snyder's fourth appearance on The Chauncey DeVega Show . Professor Snyder and Chauncey discuss how America's demo...

There are two guests on this week's  Avengers: Infinity War  and the secret history of Marvel vs. DC comics themed episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show .  Writer and Hugo-award nominated podcaster Alasdair Stuart  is the first guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Alasdair and Chauncey discuss their thoughts on  Avengers: Infinity War  and what it reveals about the future of...

Reza Aslan is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times-bestseller "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" as well as "No god but God". Reza was also the host of the CNN documentary TV series "Believer".  During this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , Reza and Chauncey discuss Donald Trump's hold ove...

David Cay Johnston is the guest on this week's edition of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has followed Donald Trump's life and career for 30 years. Johnston shared those insights in the New York Times bestselling book  The Making of Donald Trump . Johnston's new book is  It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to...

Historian Ed Ayers is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Ed Ayers has written and edited twelve books, including  In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America , winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Beveridge Prize; and  The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction , a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His new b...

Anti-racism activist, author, and scholar  Tim Wise  is the guest on this week's edition of  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 . During this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , Tim and Chauncey discuss toxic white masculinity and mass shooti...