The Chauncey DeVega Show

Psychologist Sheldon Solomon is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a leading authority on social psychology and helped to develop what is known as "terror management theory". Dr. Solomon has written numerous books and articles including In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror and The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life . During this week's show Sh...

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is one of the world's leading authorities on social dominance behavior and group dynamics. Most famous for  the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment , Dr. Zimbardo has written dozens of books and articles including the most recent  "The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life"  ...

Peter Bebergal is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of the new book Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll .  During this week's show, Peter and Chauncey discuss the appeal of magic and the occult for musicians and artists, the moral panics about Satanism and heavy metal music during the 1980s in America, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, as...

Jane Elliott is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Elliot is an anti-racism educator and activist who is most well-known for her Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed teaching exercise. During this week's show, Jane and Chauncey discuss Donald Trump and his racist movement, the origins of the Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed teaching exercise and the problem with language such as "white privilege"....

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features three great guests. Political scientist and statistician Andrew Gelman is the first guest. He is a professor at Columbia University and the author of several books including Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do. He recently wrote a great piece for Slate called  "19 Lessons for Political Scientists...

Malcolm Nance is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.  He is a frequent contributor to MSNBC and other media outlets such as CNN, ABC News, FOX News, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and Al Arabiya. Malcolm Nance is also the author of numerous books including The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election . Nance was a career counterterro...

Colin Dickey is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of several books including Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places . During this week's show Chauncey and Colin channel the Art Bell show as they discuss hauntings and collective memory, why skepticism is a requirement, the Winchester ghost sightings, the TV show American Horror Story, Native...

Cornell Belcher is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He served as Pollster for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) under Chairman Howard Dean making him the first minority to lead in that role for either national Party. He also served on the polling team for both Obama presidential campaigns. Over the years, Cornell has worked with both Senate and House Democrats as...

John Kinder is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of  Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran . During this week's show, Chauncey and John discuss "human waste" and the other language that was used to describe disabled veterans, America's worship of technology and human improvement, the lies and other propaganda th...

Agustin Fuentes  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame  and is one of the leading experts on human social evolution, primate behavior, human and non-human interaction, and communication. Dr. Fuentes is also the author of many books including the forthcoming, "The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Huma...

William Smith is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a professor at The University of Utah and author of numerous articles on race, identity, psychology, and higher education. He is most well-known for his contributions to the study of what is known as "racial battle fatigue". During this week's show, Chauncey and Professor Smith talk about racism and trauma, "raci...

This week's podcast is a special episode focusing on the inauguration of The Fascist in Chief of the United States Donald Trump. To help him reflect on these ominous days, four guests stop by to offer their thoughts on the installation of Donald Trump.  Irv Muchnick , investigative journalist and sports writer commiserates about the role of professional wrestling in the election of Donald Trump an...

Kelly Baker is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is the author of Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 , as well as The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture . In this week's episode of the podcast, Kelly and Chauncey talk about the "good white people" problem and racism, white ide...

The guest, for this, the first official podcast episode of 2017, is Lester Spence . He is the author of several great books including Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics and is a frequent contributor to news outlets such as MSNBC, the BBC, and National Public Radio. Dr. Spence is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. In this far r...

Happy New Year! On this week's impromptu podcast episode, Chauncey Devega offers up some personal reflections on the year past and hopes for the upcoming 2017. What was Chauncey grateful for last year? What are his hopes for the future? On this week's podcast, Chauncey also calls up Mama DeVega on the telephone and she offers up her thoughts on Donald Trump, what we need to do going forward, what...

This week's special fundraising podcast guest is Ben Winters, author of the New York Times bestselling book "Underground Airlines". In this expansive conversation, Ben and Chauncey talk about the "what if?" scenario of how white on black chattel slavery continues into present-day America that drives "Underground Airlines", writing race and the color line as a white author, as well as the rise of D...

This week's special fundraising podcast guest is the civil rights icon, educator, and 1968 Olympic gold medalist Dr. Tommie Smith. He is most widely known for his iconic "Black Power" salute with John Carlos. Dr. Smith has spent the decades after that iconic moment traveling the country and world sharing his life wisdom about human rights, dignity, and the power of education.  Chauncey and Dr. Smi...

For this month's fundraiser, I have four special guests for the podcast. This week's very special fundraising podcast features Van Jones. He has served as President Barack Obama's special adviser for green jobs and is a frequent guest commentator for news outlets such as CNN. He is also the author of Rebuild the Dream" and "The Green Collar Economy" in addition to leading several nonprofits such a...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests. Documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki stops by to discuss his new documentary 'Mifune: The Last Samurai' and to also share what his documentary about drug addiction in America's rural and suburban communities can tell us about the election of the American Il Duce Donald Trump. Zach Schonfeld  is the second guest on this week...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests. Author, writer extraordinaire, and friend of the podcast "Champion" Joe Lansdale stops by to share his thoughts on Donald Trump's winning the White House, if Trump's voters are stupid, ignorant, racist or all three, and updates us on Season Two of Hap and Leonard on SundanceTV . William Astore is the second guest on this we...

This week's very special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show focuses on the 2016 presidential election and Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton. Historian, writer, and friend of Chauncey DeVega, the one and only "Werner Herzog's Bear" aka Jason Tebbe stopped by the show Sunday night to soothe Chauncey's nerves about what could--and did--transpire on Election Day. As the horrible outcome tha...

There are two guests on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Psychiatrist David Reiss returns to analyze Donald Trump's behavior during presidential debates and to offer his thoughts on the Republican nominee's love of sexually harassing women and other noxious behavior. Writer and New York Times guest columnist Jared Yates Sexton also returns to the show. He shares some stories abou...

Professor Jennifer Mittelstadt is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is a Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of the new book  The Rise of the Military Welfare State . In this week's episode of the podcast, Jennifer and Chauncey talk about the social safety net, gender, race, welfare, and the United States military. Jennifer also offers some gr...

Professor John Schiemann is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of the new book Does Torture Work? In this week's episode of the podcast, John and Chauncey talk about American foreign policy, torture, September 11th, and torture. John also does some great teaching about the "prison...

Professor Daniel Czitrom is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of several books including the new  New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era . He has also written the bestselling textbook  Out of Many: A History of the American People . In this week's episode...