The Chauncey DeVega Show

Professor Whitney Strub is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is an Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Newark College of Arts & Sciences and University College-Newark. Whitney is also author of the books  Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography as well as  The Rise of the New Right and   Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States...

Psychologist Monnica Williams is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is a practicing clinician, educator, and expert on issues related to race, trauma, identity, and mental health. Dr. Williams is the author of numerous articles in leading research journals and has been featured by The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Huffington Post as well as other publi...

Paul Street  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is the second installment of a two part conversation. He is an author, activist, speaker, and policy expert whose work on politics, race, class, labor, neoliberalism, and related topic has been featured by Counterpunch, The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, and the Chicago Tribune among many other outlets. In this...

Paul Street is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is the first installment of a two-part conversation. He is an author, activist, speaker, and policy expert whose work on politics, race, class, labor, neoliberalism, and related topic has been featured by Counterpunch, The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, and the Chicago Tribune among many other outlets. In this wee...

Tim Wise is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is one of the United States' leading anti-racism scholars and activists. Tim is also the author of numerous books including his most recent, "Under the Affluence."  Tim is a great friend of the show and this is his third appearance. In this week's episode of the podcast, Tim and Chauncey talk about Donald Trump, the ret...

Phil Torres is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Phil is an author, contributor at the Future of Life Institute, Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and founder of the X-Risks Institute. In this week's episode of the podcast, Phil and Chauncey talk about the future, extinction level events, emerging technologies, the Terminator film...

Nicholas Stargardt is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Professor Stargardt is a historian at Oxford University and the author of several books including the most recent Witnesses of War - Children's Lives under the Nazis and  The German War: A Nation Under Arms.   In this week's installment of the podcast, Dr. Stargardt and Chauncey discuss children, trauma, the Holoc...

This week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show is part 2 of our special 100th episode. It is good fun, something random, and features the good, interesting, and smart people of Chicago. This week's podcast was recorded on Michigan Avenue during Memorial Day weekend. In the first conversation, Chauncey talks with a brother from the "Black Israelites" about race, politics, life, history, and ye...

This week's episode special 100th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features film scholar, actor, writer, and professor Kevin Willmott . Professor Willmott is a co-writer and producer of Spike Lee's film Chi-Raq as well as the recent film Destination Planet Negro . In addition to many other projects, Kevin also wrote and directed the amazing "documentary"/counterfactual film C.S.A.: The Confeder...

This week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show  features writer  Jared Yates Sexton .  This is the second installment of a two-part conversation.  In this week's installment of the podcast, Jared and Chauncey talk about their shared love of professional wrestling, do some fantasy booking for the WWE, explore how the basics of good fiction writing can be applied to improve the WWE's current story...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features writer  Jared Yates Sexton .   Jared's first-hand reporting on the Donald Trump phenomenon has been featured by The New York Times and The New Republic . In this week's installment of the podcast, Jared and Chauncey talk about their experiences at Donald Trump's political rodeos/rallies, how the American Il Duce has crated a "safe space" for...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Alondra Nelson . She is a Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and author of the new book, The Social Life of DNA . In this week's installment of the podcast, Dr. Nelson and Chauncey talk about DNA, the body, race, and how many African-Americans are using emerging technologies to trace their "roots" across the Bla...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Professor Courtney Baker . She is a professor at Connecticut College and author of the new book, Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death . In this week's installment of the podcast, Dr. Baker and Chauncey talk about police and anti-black violence, the continuity of white on black racial terrorism from Recons...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show honors Muhammad Ali. To that end, Professor Randy Roberts is the guest on this week's podcast. He is the author of the new book Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X .    Dr. Roberts is an expert on social history and American culture whose other works include Joe Louis: Hard Times Man , Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mau...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Claire Conner . She is the author of Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right . This is the second part of our conversation here on The Chauncey DeVega Show . The first episode can be listened to here . Claire Conner is one of the "daughters" of the John Birch Society. In this installment of the podcast, she continu...

This week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show  features Claire Conner . She is the author of Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right .  Claire Conner possesses unique insights about the Republican Party, the John Birch Society, and the broader White Right which she so generously shares during this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Chauncey and Claire discuss w...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features Professor Laurie Essig. She is the author of several books including "American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection . Dr. Essig is also a contributing writer for Psychology Today . In this week's installment of the podcast, Laurie does some great sharing and teaching about how neoliberalism has distorted love, marri...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests and friends of the podcast.  Psychiatrist David Reiss returns to the show and shares his insights and thoughts about the deaths of music legend Prince and professional wrestling trailblazer Chyna and how they are victims of America's epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. Dr. Reiss also shares his experience and wisdom a...

Richard Rubin is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. This is the second part of my conversation with him about his great book about World War One, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War . In this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Richard continues sharing stories about tracking down the last living American World War One veteran...

Richard Rubin is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Richard is the author of the great book about World War One, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War .  In the first of this two part conversation, Richard shares his story about tracking down the surviving American veterans of World War One, their insights about life, memories of th...

Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Dave Grossman is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Lt. Colonel Grossman is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of killing and combat. He is the author of several books including On Killing and  On Combat .  Lt. Colonel Grossman travels approximately 300 days a year, where in seminars and...

This special installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show features four different guests in three acts. In the first part of this week's episode Rufus Farmer and Erica Mines, the two African-American activists who Bill Clinton lectured and finger pointed out during a recent rally in Philadelphia, share their on the ground experience(s). Rufus Farmer's and Erica Mines's account of the Philadelphia rally...

Professor Joseph Lowndes is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and the author of several books and articles including  From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism as well as Race and American Political Development. In this wide ranging conversation, Joe and Ch...

Professor Cedric Johnson is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author/editor of several books including Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics , as well as The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans.  Dr. Johnson is also an Associate Professor in the Department of...

Paul O'Brien is the guest on this week's special " Wrestlemania " themed episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of the great series of crime noire novels set in the world of professional wrestling called Blood Red Bleeds Dollar Green . Paul is also an accomplished playwright and is working on a TV series and film project. In this fun episode, Paul and Chauncey talk about their mutu...