The Chauncey DeVega Show

Writer Andrew Heisel  is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Andrew's great essays and other work have been featured by such publications and sites as the Washington Post, Jezebel, Slate, LA Review of Books, and Vice Sports. He is a great raconteur. In this week's conversation, Andrew and Chauncey talk about writing, the New England "deflategate" scandal, corruption in p...

Sex educator, BDSM practitioner, and kink expert Mollena Williams is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is the author of the book Playing Well With Others . Mollena Williams also travels across the country (and world) where she gives seminars and lectures on human sexuality, being sex positive, and the pleasures of being open to one's deepest sexual desires. Mol...

In this special installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Chauncey shares his experience at the Chicago Donald Trump "No-Show" Rally. There was much which occurred there that was not accurately reported by the mainstream corporate news media. In this special episode, Chauncey shares how the atmosphere was not as dangerous as depicted by the corporate news media, that the "violence" which did occur...

Astronomer David Weintraub is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show .  Dr. Weintraub is a Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and author of the new book Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? In this fun conversation, Dr. Weintraub and Chauncey talk about "first contact", the challenges of time, speed, and...

Sociologist Allan Johnson is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is part 2 of the conversation which began on last week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.   Dr. Johnson is the author of many books--non-fiction, memoirs, and fiction--including The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promis...

Sociologist Allan G. Johnson is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of many books--non-fiction, memoirs, and fiction--including  The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy , The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise . He is one of the country's foremost experts on questions of race, gender, and social (in)equality. Dr...

Writer and cultural historian Preston Lauterbach is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Preston is the author of the great new book Beale Street Dynasty which examines the intersecting lives, fascinating personalities, the power of the color line, and self-made men in the post-Civil War South. In all, Beale Street Dynasty is an amazing work that reveals a great deal...

Philosopher David Theo Goldberg is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Goldberg is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers on matters of race and the global color line. He is the author of numerous books and articles including the most recent Are We All 'Post Racial' Yet? . He is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute a...

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 . He is also the subject of a great new documentary called White Like Me . Tim Wise is a great friend of the podcast and...

Documentary filmmaker and writer Sofian Khan is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Sofian's films include The Dickumentary and his newest project The Interpreter . During this fun and educational episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Sofian does some great sharing about the history of the penis, making The Dickumentary , and the interesting personalities he encountered...

Author and former senior United States Air Force intelligence officer Terry Finnegan is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of the books Shooting the Front: Allied Reconnaissance in the First World Wa r and A Delicate Affair on the Western Front: America Learns How to Fight a Modern War in the Woëvre Trenches . This is a great conversation where Chauncey...

Dr. Oliver Speck is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Oliver is a professor of Film Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, most recently the new volume Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema . In this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Oliver and Chauncey discuss Tarantino...

David Silverman is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the president of the American Atheists. David is also the author of the new book  Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World.  He is one of the United States' most prominent voices in favor of a true separation between Church and State. Mr. Silverman is also an unapologetic, proud, "firebrand" ath...

This week's New Year's Eve episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is two great shows in one.  The first part of the New Year's Eve podcast features a review and discussion of Star Wars: The Force Awakens with friend of the podcast and site Bill the Lizard. Bill and Chauncey have been thinking about, anticipating, and meditating on all things Star Wars for many years. Their conversation about Star War...

This episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests.   Star Wars: The Force Awakens is taking the world by storm. The Chauncey DeVega Show has done several special episodes with friend of the site Bill the Lizard about the new series of Star Wars films. Chauncey and Bill the Lizard have finally seen the new movie. They originally intended to talk for only 20 minutes, but instead end...

Print author, TV, and film writer Joe Lansdale is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is the second time that "Champion" Joe has stopped by to chat at the virtual bar and he does not disappoint.   Chauncey and Joe talked about a huge range of topics including, the new Hap and Leonard book and TV series, Paradise Sky about African-American cowboy Nat Love, Joe's work...

Ned and Constance Sublette are the guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . They are the authors of the amazing and powerful new book The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry .  Ned and Constance do some serious teaching and sharing on a very difficult subject for this week's show. Chauncey and his guests work through questions regarding the scale and s...

Dave Neiwert is the guest on this week's episode of T he Chauncey DeVega Show . He is one of the United States' foremost experts on the American Right-wing media, militia movement, and politics more generally. He current writes the Hatewatch blog for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dave Neiwert is the author of several books including  The Eliminationists . He is one of the founders of the essent...

Sean McElwee is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Research Associate at the Demos think tank . He is also a contributing writer for Salon and Al Jazeera. In this great conversation on The Chauncey DeVega Show , Sean and Chauncey talk about race and wealth inequality, if the United States is still a "democracy", libertarianism, and what the data reveals about ho...

Paula Ioanide is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Ioanide is a Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies at Ithaca College. She is the author of the great new book The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness . In this conversation on The Chauncey DeVega Show , Paula and Chauncey talk about emotion, empathy, symp...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features sports journalist Irvin Muchnick. In addition to many articles, he is the author of Justice Denied ; Wrestling Babylon ; and Concussion Inc. . He is a smart, direct, and incisive writer who is expert at locating events in the "world of sports" within their broader social context. In this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Irvin and Ch...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Richardson is the author of numerous books including To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party and Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre . She is also a contributing writer for the online magazine Salon.com . Her essays on American politics, culture, and the...

This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show explores all things Star Wars  and Star Wars: The Force Awakens   related.  Almost 40-years-ago George Lucas created one, if not the, most important film and popular culture universe of the 20th century. In less than two months, the much anticipated sequel to the landmark original Star Wars sequels will debut in December. For the first part of this w...

Sociologist Douglas McAdam is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. McAdam is the author or coauthor of some 85 articles and 18 books such as Freedom Summer and Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. His new book,  Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America  examines race, political polarization, and the rise...

Filmmaker, producer, and singer John Michael Williams is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is an expansive conversation that touches on John's recent documentary "Bridgend" about the epidemic of teen suicides in a small town in the United Kingdom , finding one's life vocation, money, success, human strength and human weakness on both sides of the color line, as we...