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Episode 174 Promo - Roe is Me (w/ Eric Segall & Caroline Mala Corbin)
May 09, 2022 04:18 - 5 minutes - 5.03 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This episode goes beyond an examination of Alito's reasoning in the now famous leaked draft Supreme Court opinion reversing Roe v. Wade. Law professor Eric Segall returns to the podcast along with professor Caroline Corbin of University of Miami School of Law to discuss the longer project of writing the establishment clause (e.g. separation of chur...
[UNLOCKED] Episode 88 - Cancel [The Supreme] Court
May 05, 2022 09:28 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBGiven how salient this conversation is to the leaked Supreme Court decision draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade, we're unlocking this episode. Do you agree with Professor Bowie that we should weaken the courts? Or does a direct democracy scare you? Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last summer, the country was engaged in a robust conversation about how Democrats could reform the court to compensa...
Episode 173 - Brown Red Alliance: Glenn Loury Revisited
May 05, 2022 09:17 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast A couple of weeks ago, Briahna joined Brown professor Glenn Loury on his podcast to revisit their viral conversation on Bad Faith. It was so good, we're sharing it here on the free feed. What do a Black (Brown) conservative economics professor and a Black (and red) socialist have in common? Besides loving that Loury's wife loves Bernie? Listen and find out. Subscri...
Episode 172 - Student Debt: Nothing to Forgive
May 02, 2022 05:00After Biden teased "significant" student debt relief last week, Republicans and corporate Dems lost their minds coming up with bad faith arguments against student debt cancellation. Briahna caught up with consumer debt attorney and debt jubilee advocate Sparky Abraham about where we are in the fight for student debt cancellation, and what the best arguments are against means testing student debt reform. How should Briahna handle the "Harvard" question: e.g. why did you choose to go to an eli...
Episode 171 - Are We Hard Enough on Bernie? (w/ Ari Rabin-Havt)
April 27, 2022 23:59 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Bernie 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager Ari Rabin-Havt is back to discuss his new tell-all book about the 2020 campaign: The Fighting Soul: On The Road With Bernie Sanders. The book is well timed to speculation about Bernie running in 2024, and concerns voiced by many progressives that he didn't take the movement far enough. I asked Ari about a potential Bernie run, the Co...
Episode 170 Promo - Musk Off Moment (w/ Glenn Greenwald)
April 25, 2022 06:59 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the relationship between billionaires and the media. Will Elon Musk buying Twitter benefit the platform, or are free speech advocates overly optimistic about the valence of his prospective influence? How did Glenn safeguard editorial independence as he co-founded The Intercep...
Episode 169 - When The Star[bucks] Align (w Kshama Sawant)
April 21, 2022 09:01 - 1 hour - 61 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant about the rash of Starbucks coffee locations unionizing around the country, why the Staten Island Amazon unionization effort was successful, the problem with some professional organizers, Chris Smalls' Tucker Carlson appearance, the difference between DSA and Socialist Alternative, how and why Ksha...
Episode 168 Promo - The Tortoise & The Warehouse (w/ Christian Smalls)
April 18, 2022 03:58 - 5 minutes - 5.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls joins the podcast to discuss the Staten Island Amazon unionization victory, recent controversy over his Tucker Carlson appearance, the online dust-up with AOC, why Staten Island was successful when Bessemer, AL wasn't, the problem with "professional" organizers, and more. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to ac...
Episode 167 Promo - The Bipartisan Landscape of the Liberal Mind (w/ Peter Kalmus & Rose Abramoff)
April 14, 2022 18:00 - 5 minutes - 4.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode with full video and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to climate scientists and activists Peter Kalmus & Rose Abramoff about what to do when marching is not enough. Both were involved in a direct action event that resulted in their arrests earlier this month, and are encouraging a turn to non violent direct action as a way to push world-saving climate reforms. I...
Episode 166 - The Case for Electoralism (w/ Rev. Wendy Hamilton & Ally Dalsimer)
April 11, 2022 03:36 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to two progressive congressional candidates hoping to make a difference in Northern Virginia & Washington DC -- Ally Dalsimer & Rev. Wendy Hamilton respectively. Hamilton, formerly Andrew Yang's Director of Spiritual Outreach, is hoping to unseat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been DC's House Delegate since 1991. Ally Dalsimer, an environ...
Episode 165 - Max Blumenthal Responds to Ro Khanna
April 07, 2022 06:58 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast We've edited down last Thursday's Callin/YouTube live stream with Gray Zone journalist Max Blumenthal for your listening pleasure. We felt this was mandatory listening. We hope you agree. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nic...
Episode 164 Promo - The Progressive Misleadership Class (w/ Chris Hedges)
April 04, 2022 06:16 - 4 minutes - 3.67 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and long time truth teller Chris Hedges sits down with Briahna for an intimate conversation about the recent purging of his RT show On Contact from YouTube, what to make of online criticism AOC received for "stealing valor" from the successful Amazon unionization effort, the limits of electoralism, and why he still fig...
Episode 163 - This Isn't Fine (w/ Ro Khanna)
March 31, 2022 04:40 - 52 minutes - 48 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast On this week's free episode, Briahna asks CA Representative Ro Khanna about his recent online dust up with Max Blumenthal over Ukraine, what ethical standard the left should adopt for disseminating weapons to other countries, whether the US played any role in the Ukraine/Russia conflict, what he thinks of the RT ban, why he disagrees with AOC's argument that Biden has n...
Episode 162 Promo - A Taste of Armageddon (w/ Joe Cirincione)
March 28, 2022 06:24 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks with Joe Cirincione, distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington, D.C & former president of The Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution, about the cold hard facts of hot nuclear war. How is the security of "mutually assured d...
Episode 161 - Who Will Be Held Accountable for Covid? (w/ John Nichols)
March 24, 2022 04:11 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to National Affairs correspondent for the Nation & associate editor of The Capital Times John Nichols about his latest book, Coronavirus Criminals & Pandemic Profiteers. An account of how elected leadership & the pharmaceutical industry failed to prevent preventable deaths, the book serves as a blueprint for a Pecora commission for the Covid er...
Episode 160 Promo - Nationalize This
March 21, 2022 04:03 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna asks experts pointed, pragmatic questions about how to nationalize the energy sector. With the public discourse centered on high gas prices and the climate crisis is looming bigger than ever, it seems odd that the left is silent on a solution that could deliver big benefits to direct consumers and, well, everyone who enjoys a habitab...
Episode 159 - The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed (w/ Abby Martin)
March 17, 2022 03:09 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to journalist & activist Abby Martin about the spate of left media censorship that's occurred over the past few weeks. RT America, Russia's 24/7 English-language news channel, has been shuttered -- presumably because the cost of sanctions on Russia made it difficult to sustain, while RT has been banned entirely in Europe. Over 600 episodes of...
Episode 158 Promo - The Nuclear "Option" (w/ Alexander Cockburn)
March 14, 2022 09:22 - 6 minutes - 5.49 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks with Washington Editor of Harper's Andrew Cockburn about his book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Why does acknowledging any of the historical antecedents to Russia's invasion of Ukraine draw accusations of being "Putin's puppet?" What is that history, and how should it inform our thinking about...
Episode 157 - Self-Censorship on Campus: Should We Care? (w/ Emma Camp)
March 10, 2022 03:57 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast They say every day Twitter has a main character, and the goal is not to be it. This week, Briahna speaks Monday's protagonist, Emma Camp, the UVA senior who wrote a viral New York Times article titled: I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead. Brie asks Emma how she distinguishes the "self censorship" which people have opted into for centu...
Episode 156 Promo - The First Crypto War? (w/ Grace Blakeley)
March 07, 2022 05:13 - 4 minutes - 4.41 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to Tribune staff writer and author Grace Blakeley about the role cryptocurrencies are playing in the the Ukraine/Russia conflict. On one hand, it's being used to raise money for Ukrainians, and to provide liquidity for blameless Russian citizens who are being impacted sanctions. But it also provides an opportunity for the Russ...
Episode 155 - This Mortal Oil
March 03, 2022 07:17 - 59 minutes - 54 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Is this just another oil war? This week, Briahna interviews Intercept national security reporter Ken Klippenstein & Daily Poster founder David Sirota about how energy and climate policy play a role in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Brie asks Ken about his recent piece titled "Saudi-Russia Collusion is Driving Up Gas Prices -- And Worsening Ukraine Crisis" and asks Sirota a...
Episode 154 Promo - Stand With Euphoria
February 28, 2022 07:50 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie speaks to five-time guest Leslie Lee III about whatever she wants to talk about because she can. Star Trek, pop culture, Euphoria, contrarianism, whatever. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod)and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend). Theme ...
Episode 153 - WWIII (w/ Matt Duss)
February 24, 2022 05:14 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to Bernie Sanders' foreign policy advisor Matt Duss about the escalating conflict in Ukraine. The left has split in its approach to this issue, with difference sides accusing one another of imperialism or being Putin-puppets respectively. Briahna attempts to get to the root of the split, and asks Duss what, if any, ethical rationale exists to jus...
Episode 152 Promo - Keep On Truckin'
February 21, 2022 05:58 - 4 minutes - 4.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast A convoy of Canadian truckers have been protesting following a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US/Canadian boarder. The protests have become a stage on which broader cultural conflicts have played out, alternatively described as a worker struggle and a cite of right-wing bigotry. Because it is financed by large donors -- many of whom are Ame...
Episode 151 - Force The Vote: One More Time, With Feeling (w/ Ash Kalra)
February 17, 2022 02:29 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Earlier this month, California Assemblymember Ash Kalra took heat from allies in the fight to pass a state-Medicare for All bill in California when he declined to force the vote on the bill. The reason? He says they didn't have the votes. Brie grills Klara on the strategic utility of allowing "progressive" Democrats obscure their opposition to Medicare for All by killi...
Episode 150 Promo - Whoopi & Rogan's Race to The Bottom
February 14, 2022 03:06 - 6 minutes - 5.87 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to Thomas Chatterton Williams & Batya Ungar-Sargon in one of the few substantive conversations on the internet about why Whoopi's claim that Jews are white, and the Holocaust wasn't about race. What work is the word "race" doing here? Is it possible to recognize the particularized nature of anti-Semitism and the fact that Nazi's ...
Episode 149 - Black Tithes Matter
February 10, 2022 05:23 - 46 minutes - 43 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie interviewed Sean Campbell, author of a viral story criticizing the murky finances of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. After raising 90 million dollars during 2020, at least 60 million remains undistributed and unaccounted for, and local organizers feel abandoned and/or undermined by national leadership. As BLM's national leadership dis...
Episode 148 Promo - Love the Senate, Hate the Senator (w/ Morgan Harper)
February 07, 2022 06:02 - 3 minutes - 3.57 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie interviews a woman aiming to be the third (or arguably, the second) genuinely progressive Senator -- Morgan Harper. She's running against Tim Ryan (OH-13) in the Ohio Democratic Primary to replace retiring Republican Senator Rob Portman, but recently, she debated the likely Republican challenger, Josh Mandel, whose Trump-style politics ...
Episode 147 - See Spotify Run
February 03, 2022 07:24 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie tackled the latest Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy with an all-star panel: Taylor Lorenz, technology reporter for the New York Times; heterodox writer at Substack Freddie DeBoer; & Evan Greer -- activist and musician with an album titled "Spotify is Surveillance." Is the push to cancel Rogan over vaccine-skeptical guests evidence of illiberalism among the...
Episode 146 Promo - Oscar Breyer Meat Market
January 31, 2022 04:20 - 5 minutes - 5.36 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast As Justice Breyer prepares to retire from the Supreme Court, Briahna spoke to author and anti-trust expert Matt Stoller about the pox he's been on anti-trust jurisprudence, how pro-competition, anti-monopolistic, solidly American sentiments were quashed by Harvard & Chicago School law and economics scholars in the 1970s, and how a lack of anti-trust regu...
Episode 145 - Men Are From Marx
January 27, 2022 05:27 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Bad Faith revisits the subject of love and dating on the left -- this time, with an all male panel comprised of some of your favorite leftists and Bad Faith guests: Author Bertrand Cooper, James Befaunt of Revolutionary Blackout Network, & Jackson Hinkle of The Dive. We revisit some of the same questions posed to August's all lady panel (e.g., could you date a...
[UNLOCKED] Episode 102 - Swipe Left
January 25, 2022 18:17 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The personal is political, so this week an all female panel weighs in on what it's like to date as a leftist. Is political alignment a necessity? Where would you draw the line? A Kamala Harris supporter? A Buttigeig stan? Do heteronormative gender dynamics make it more difficult for leftists women to constructively negotiate disagreements with less progressive men? Do ...
Episode 144 Promo - Burning Down The House (& Senate) w/ Paula Jean Swearengin & Gregg Marcel Dixon
January 24, 2022 05:28 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to two residences of low income, underserved districts who've taken it up on themselves to challenge the establishment king makers who've lead their communities, largely unchallenged, for years. First, Brie interviewed 2018 challenger to Joe Manchin, Paula Jean Swearengin, about whether Democrats now regret not backing her 2018...
Episode 143 - Executors of the Fourth Estate
January 20, 2022 06:05 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThis week, Brie spoke with Jordan Chariton, co-founder of independent investigative media outlet, Status-Coup, about new news out of Flint Michigan, and the algorithmic morass that's choking gumshoe reporting. In an article published this week in The Guardian, Chariton unpacked the new Democratic prosecutor's choice to drop racketeering charges which targeted the underlying financial fraud that enabled the Flint water poisoning crisis. After catching us up on the state of Flint, Brie an...
Episode 142 Promo - Healing The Soul of America
January 17, 2022 08:59 - 6 minutes - 6.16 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast After a week of dominating headlines -- from Politico speculation about a 2024 run, to the New York Times Sunday Style's two page spread -- Marianne Williamson revisits Bad Faith podcast to talk about progressive electoral strategy, the future of the Forward Party, the left's spiritual void and more. You won't want to miss this intimate, in person in...
Episode 141 - Pas De Trois
January 13, 2022 07:54 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Is it time for a 3rd party challenger in 2024? Last week, Politico reported that several major progressive voices are confident that there will be a left challenger to Joe Biden. Jeff Weaver, Bernie's 2016 campaign manager, said it's a given, and names like Nina Turner and Marianne Williamson have been floated as possible candidates. However, much of the left is still...
Episode 140 Promo - Lin Manuel Labor (w/ Catherine Liu)
January 10, 2022 05:47 - 6 minutes - 5.75 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Brie speaks to Catherine Liu, professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Irvine & author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, about whether the left takes it's criticism of PMCs too far. Is PMC bashing a kind of reductive class identity politics? Is it worth it to try to mobilize the...
Episode 139 - Mint Condition
January 06, 2022 07:03 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie spoke to economics professor and exceptional communicator Fadhel Kaboub about what really causes inflation, how Modern Monetary Theory can help, why the Federal Reserve should mint a trillion dollar coin, how to curb education and healthcare inflation, and why elected progressives aren't talking nearly enough about any of this. If you aren't already fam...
Episode 138 Promo - Beware The Fine Print (w/ Tezlyn Figaro)
January 03, 2022 05:27 - 6 minutes - 6.15 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie spoke to Tezlyn Figaro -- host of Straight Shot, No Chaser podcast, Bernie 2016 alum, Black News Channel correspondent, and frequent Fox News guest -- about the left's "Black voter problem," Bernie 2016 vs 2020, Kamala Harris infamous Charlamagne Tha God interview, & more. Does the commitment some Black voters have to being "entrepenua...
Episode 137 - [Debt] Strike While The Iron Is Hot
December 30, 2021 05:08 - 1 hour - 98 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie tackles her favorite subject, student debt, with two of the foremost authorities on the subject: Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective, & Sparky Abraham, a consumer debt attorney who makes some of the best legal and moral arguments against student debt. After running through the right's (and Larry Summers') best bad faith arguments against stu...
Episode 136 Promo - I Told You So: The Podcast
December 27, 2021 06:13 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie vented to Stephen Semler, co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute, about all the Build Back Better angst she's been sublimating over the holidays. Stephen's central observation, drawn from his foreign policy analysis, is critical: "Joe Manchin says he won’t support Build Back Better because it costs too much—a week after voting f...
Episode 135 - Slavoj Bells Ring (w/ Slavoj Žižek)
December 23, 2021 07:40 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBIt's a Christmas miracle! We're unlocking the first half of Monday's premium episode for all you Patreon-curious listeners. If you're good boys & girls, there might even be more holiday unlocks coming your way. As always, we appreciate your support at http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast. Happy holidays! Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find...
Episode 134 Promo - How Right The Left Was (w/ Slavoj Žižek)
December 20, 2021 09:57 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In the best Žižek interview you'll hear this month, Brie asks the Slovenian philosopher to revisit his stance on Biden and Chomsky's vote blue no matter who take from exactly a year ago. Is it enough for the left to merely hold Biden accountable to his own campaign promises? Or should somebody be demanding more? Perhaps something more in line with what...
Episode 133 - Succession In The City
December 16, 2021 05:19 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie talks to two Vulture writers -- Jen Chaney & Roxana Hadadi -- about two popular New York shows everyone is talking about... for two very different reasons. First, the ladies take on the "woke" politics of the new Sex And The City reboot And Just Like That.... Does "Black Miranda" work as a replacement for Kim Cattrall? Why are the show writers ritually ...
Episode 132 Promo - Solving The "Whiteness" Problem
December 13, 2021 02:05 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Lots of pundits have lots of thoughts and feelings about how to fix the Democrats' messaging problems. A recent Jacobin study charted one path forward, "Shorism" offers another. This week, Brie spoke to Professor Ian Haney López, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley, and the author of Merge Left: Fusing Race & Class, Winning Elections, an...
Episode 131 - Transcendental Medication
December 09, 2021 05:22 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Brie convenes a political roundtable to discuss celebrity candidate Dr. Oz, who just joined the Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania. With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health professor and Berniecrat who ran for governor of Michigan in 2018, and Dave Weigel, journalist for the Washington Post, the panel takes on the tough questions about Oprah's protégé: Ca...
Episode 130 Promo - Abort, Abort
December 06, 2021 06:18 - 6 minutes - 5.51 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week's guests break down all you need to know about last week's Supreme Court oral arguments on the Mississippi abortion case that's posed to overturn Roe v. Wade & Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. Professor Eric Segall of Georgia State College of Law returns to the podcast to weigh in on remarks made during oral arguments that challenged the constit...
Episode 129 - No Playing Mother Fuckers
December 02, 2021 05:45 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In this week's long overdue pop culture episode, Brie chats with her two favorite cultural critics about Twitter the backlash to Leslie Lee III's observation that "white people love the Beatles." Why, exactly, did that post launch a thousand quote tweets? The new Beatles documentary, Get Back, has ignited a conversation about who gets to define good art, the negative s...
Episode 128 Promo - The Boy Who Cried White Supremacist
November 29, 2021 07:55 - 8 minutes - 7.58 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon, Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek & author of a provocative new book titled Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. A self-described "former woke," Batya is now skeptical of left media culture that feels increasingly elite & distant from journalisms working class roots. But while Brie & Batya agree on ...
Episode 127 - It's Giving Thanks (w/ Ben Jealous)
November 24, 2021 23:08 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBExtremely good vibes in this Thanksgiving episode with former NAACP president, Maryland gubernatorial candidate, professor, and most importantly, Bernie Bro, Ben Jealous. Sometimes it's just nice to let the conversation follow a great conversationalist, and this week, the chat covers the biographical, racial identity, the merits of "defund" as a slogan, Ben's voting rights advocacy and why Biden's dragging his feet on filibuster reform, and a former gubernatorial candidates insights on what ...