The Chauncey DeVega Show

There are two guests on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of several books including Ra...

Brian K. Vaughan is the guest on this  special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the writer of such award-winning comic books and graphic novels as Saga , Y: The Last Man , Ex Machina and Paper Girls . ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Brian reflects on the return...

Thomas Ricks is the guest on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Your generosity and support helps to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of several books including The Generals ,  The Gambl e, and the number one New York Times bestseller  Fiasco . T...

Mark Galeotti is one of the world's leading experts on Russia, transnational crime and military affairs. He is the author of many books, including The Weaponisation of Everything , A Short History of Russia, and We Need to Talk About Putin . His new book is Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine . Galeotti explains how Russia's war against Ukraine is a cruel "laboratory" for the hyper-lethal reali...

On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times. Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using gratitude and thankfulness as a type of energy and fuel in what will be a long struggle against neofascism and to create a true we the people democracy here in the Unite...

Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family:   The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power  and  C Street:   The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy . His forthcoming book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Sharlet reflects on the meaning of the 2022 midterms and how the American people voted to slow down the Republican fascist assault on thei...

David Neiwert is an investigative journalist. He is the author of numerous books including  Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump ,  The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right , and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us . His forthcoming book is The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on Ameri...

Baynard Woods is the author of the new book Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness . His essays and other writing have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and many other publications. In this conversation, he reflects on the meaning of whiteness in American society and questions of denial, privilege, and responsibility. Baynard also explains how white racial iden...

Nicole Hemmer is a political historian and founding director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency at Vanderbilt University. She is the cofounder of the Made by History section of the Washington Post. Hemmer's writing has also been featured by the New York Times, CNN, and Politico. Her new book is  Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade Ameri...

Dr. Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital about the horrible choices that doctors had to make as Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans. Dr. Fink reflects of the challenges of managing one's ups and downs during difficult times such as the coronavirus pand...

Colleen Shaddox is the co-author (with Joanne Goldblum) of the book Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty. Her essays and other writing have been featured by NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other leading publications and media outlets. In this wide-ranging conversation, Colleen Shaddox reflects on her journey to becoming an activist and truth-teller about...

This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of  The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-119-the-south-side-of-chicago-is-not-a-problem-to-be-solved-it-is-a-home-for-the-american-spirit Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B Ransford Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. His books include  Floating City  and  Gang Leader for...

Brynn Tannehill is a leading trans activist and essayist. She has written for such leading publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Advocate. Tannehill is a former United States Naval Aviator and officer who also served as a campaign analyst for the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain. After leaving the military, she worked as a senior defense research scientist in private in...

There are two guests on this WWE SummerSlam weekend episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show Jason Aaron is the writer of such comics books and graphic novels as Thor , Star Wars , Avengers , Punisher , Conan The Barbarian , The Goddamned , Sea of Stars , and many other popular must-read titles. The new Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: Love and Thunder was heavily inspired by Aaron's The Mighty Tho...

This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-117-america-is-in-great-pain-and-on-a-horrible-journey-and-white-racial-innocence-wil-not-save-it Eddie Glaude Jr.   is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies   at Princeton University. His publica...

This week's very special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show focuses on Baz Luhrmann's new movie Elvis and the life, music, legend, meaning, and enduring importance of "The King" Elvis Presley. "Champion" Joe Lansdale is the award-winning author of more than 50 novels including the amazing Hap and Leonard series. His Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, Bubba Ho-Tep , was made into a movie of the...

Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of  The Family:   The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power  and C Street:  The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy . His new article "January 6 Was Only the Beginning" is featured in the July/August 2022 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Sharlet shares what it was like to journey across America into the dark heart of Trumplan...

Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic. His new book is The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. His previous work When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone was named book of the year by the Washington Post and The New Yorker. Beckerman reflects on his working-class origins and values, his vocation as a writer and relationship to books and literature, and caree...

This week's special episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show confronts the white supremacist terrorist attack on the black community in Buffalo, New York. Leonce Gaiter's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, "I Dream...

Don Winslow is a bestselling crime fiction author, political activist, a hope warrior, and one of our premiere truth-tellers. His videos about the dangers to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been viewed online more than 250 million times. Don Winslow is the author of many bestselling novels, including "Savages" (2010), "The Cartel" (2015), "The Force" (2017), and "T...

This episode is in honor of author, journalist, and media critic Eric Boehlert who passed away on April 4, 2022. Chauncey DeVega reflects on Boehlert's life and truth-telling and shares his final article about media malpractice and the Biden administration. Chauncey also reads Will Bunch's wonderful tribute to Eric Boehlert at The Philadelphia Inquirer. This episode of the podcast revisits our con...

This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-113-chris-hedges-reflects-on-the-new-censorship-and-authoritarianism-of-the-21st-century Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is  Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. He ref...

Resmaa Menakem is an artist and psychotherapist. He is the author of several books including The New York Times bestseller My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies . His new book is The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nations Upheaval & Racial Reckoning. He explains how white supremacy and life in a racist society such as th...

Ted Thornhill is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies He shares what it is like to be under siege by (and resisting) the Republican-fascist Orwellian assaults on higher education as seen with the "critical race theory" white supremacist moral panic and other attacks on the t...

Jonathan Katz is the author of the new book Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire . His essays and other writing have appeared in such leading publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the New Republic, The Guardian, Mother Jones and Foreign Policy. He is also a recipient of the James Foley/Medill Medal fo...