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Fordham Professor of African American Studies Mark Naison was once a Columbia student who was present for the occupation of Hamilton Hall back in 1968. He provides context for the protest, how the risk of community outrage helped the students achieve success, and weighs in on the current wave of university protests and the consequences facing his own students at Fordham today. Naison also just happens to be a terrific storyteller who opens the ep by describing how he ended up in one of the most enduring Chappelle's Show segments and what it was like to have Lana Del Ray in his class.
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Dr. Cornel West's Vice Presidential nominee Melina Abdullah joins Bad Faith for her first big left media interview since entering the race. We get to know the candidate before asking about her goals for the campaign, her plan to win, how to message to a "big tent," and the debate around the choice to "center" race in Dr. West's campaign. We also talk about her break with BLM national, the college pro-peace protests, and how to keep one's humanity when witnessing the worst of what the world has on offer every day on your phone screen.
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The Intercept’s Prem Thakkar has been covering college campus reactions to Israel’s war on Gaza for months, and he joins Bad Faith to detail how we got to the tumult that has occurred over the past week—snipers on roofs, valedictorians banned, professors body slammed to the ground by cops, and presidential candidates arrested.
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Bill Mitchell, professor of economics at the University of Newcastle and the man who coined the term Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), joins Bad Faith to explain how liberals failed to resist the rise of neoliberalism, how conservatives were able to wrest back control after the progressive movements of the first half of the 20th century, and how progressives can offer an alternative critique of globalization that resist both conservative culture war politics, and liberal weaponization of identity politics.
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Journalist Zaid Jilani joins Bad Faith to elaborate on his recent controversial criticisms of Matt Taibbi. Are leftists simply angry that they can't control where Taibbi's interests have taken his reporting? Or has Taibbi taken a reactionary approach in response to bad faith attacks from liberals -- and, if so, is he justified? Is the left correct in mourning that, these days, his ample skills are rarely applied to issues that concern the left? Is it fair to accuse him of falling victim to audience capture? Or is Taibbi right that it's important to focus on criticizing liberals because they are, in fact, more dangerous and hold more institutional power than the right?
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Intercept columnist and New School professor Natasha Lennard weighs in on the campus battle over pro-Palestine speech and how claims of feeling "unsafe" by pro-Israel students are being used to ban calls for Palestinian liberation. Is the left simply reaping what it has sown in making arguments about speech-related violence on campus? Or are there ways to distinguish real from imagined harms?
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Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan joins Bad Faith to discuss the left's shifting attitude toward immigration with respect to the concerns about the impact of immigrant workers on domestic wages. Does defending domestic workers have to come at the expense of immigrants? And does the shift on this issue reflect a larger rightward shift among online left commentators? The conversation broadens to include a debate on whether labor is disempowered by endorsing Biden, the efficacy of the Squad/DSA's electoral strategy, and whether labor organizing can be successful in the absence of true American labor party.
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Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya Mouin Rabbani joins Bad Faith to discuss his epic debate with politics streamer Destiny/Benny Morris, the post-World Central Kitchen "vibe shift" on Israel, and the gruesome revelation that Israel is using an AI program to generate "targets" to strike while they are at home with their families -- a.k.a. program "Daddy's Home."
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In a conversation sprawling over two hours, friend of the pod and preeminent Gaza historian Norman Finkelstein returns to Bad Faith to unpack his recent debate with Twitch streamer Destiny (Steven Bonnell) and historian Benny Morris on Lex Fridman Podcast, the latest on the sexual assault allegations against Hamas, Norm's mother's experience testifying against Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and, finally, Marianne Williamson's recent comments on this show pertaining to criticisms Norm's made of her in the past. Even two and a half hours of recording isn't enough time when Norm and Brie hop on a mic together -- and Brie regrets not closing her Apple Watch rings before she started recording -- but, as always, it was a rich and stimulating conversation. You won't want to miss this one.
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Perennial favorite Katie Halper returns to Bad Faith to talk Rami Youseff's Pro-Palestine SNL speech, Steven A. Smith dunking on Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Israel's targeted attack on three humanitarian aid vehicles who were delivering much needed food aid to Gazans. Also discussed: Reports that Israel is threatening hostage families not to speak out, and the worst gaslighting from the White House press room.
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Documentarian Dan Cohen reports on what he learned on the ground in Haiti through interviews with politician, former police officer, and gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier. Chérizer has been smeared as a cannibal by Elon Musk and some western media outlets, but is the portrait of him as a revolutionary leader closer to the truth? Dan walks us through the Haitian uprising, the ouster of Ariel Henry, and American efforts to intervene -- again.
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Unlike in 2020 & 2016, a prescriptive progressive economic agenda hasn't been thrust into mainstream consideration this election cycle. Rather, any talk of the economy has largely centered around questions of inflation: whether Biden is or isn't making it better, and whether leftists are overstating the cost of living struggles of working people. This week, Professor of Economics at SUNY-Cortland Steve Maher joins Bad Faith to assert a positive economic vision for the left, how to defeat globalization, and whether or not right-populists have gotten anything right in these regards -- if only rhetorically. We also debate the value of left electoralism, whether "fraud squad" is a fair charge, and the limits of labor militancy.
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2024 Presidential candidate and bestselling author Marianne Williamson returns to Bad Faith to explain why she unsuspended her campaign, what she makes of RFK’s success, and how her politics toward Israel bear on her approach to the crisis in Gaza. She reflects on past criticism from the left -- including Norm Finkelstein and RBN -- and debates the characterization of her views as "Zionist." Stick around until the end for some Oscars 2024 discussion.
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We're long overdue for an episode on the humanitarian crisis facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clashes between armed groups, resource wars, a post-colonial legacy of foreign interference -- Jason Sterns, Assistant Professor of International Studies and founder of the Advisory Board of Congo Research Group, and Christoph Vogel, former UN Security Council expert on the DRC and author of Conflict Minerals Inc., join Bad Faith to provide some context to this crisis and explain why the DRC has been so overlooked.
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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast California Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) returns to Bad Faith to talk the TikTok ban, whether there’s evidence to support his and others claims of mass rape on 10/7, what happened in the California primary for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, and more.
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The Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur joins Bad Faith to talk his presidential campaign, where he thinks the left should look next now that it's over, and why the Uncommitted campaign is faring so much better than any single outsider candidate so far. And then, inevitably, we have the Force The Vote conversation that's been three years in the making, as we reflect on our different theories of change going into the 2024 season. You wont want to miss this one. Have we managed to re-unify the left?
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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah joins Bad Faith to break down the latest in what some are calling the "mass rape hoax" -- a series of articles and reports that claim to prove a mass rape campaign occurred on October 7th based on circumstantial evidence and a few witnesses with significant credibility issues. Ali walks us through last week's report by UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Pramila Patten, which claims to hold "convincing information" that Hamas raped Israeli hostages. But with no interviews with alleged victims, and no identifying information about alleged witnesses, does the report tell us anything new? And if the most conclusive findings of the report are to cast doubt several rape claims, why was it reported by the New York Times as uncovering new "evidence" -- at least before they walked back their headline? And if Patten admits she did not conduct an "investigation," what does it claim to prove? But first, Ali gives an update on what's been happening this last week in Gaza, including an update on the horrific flour massacre.
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Staff writer at Arizona Luminaria & author of The Case for Open Borders John Washington joins Bad Faith to make -- what else? -- the case for open borders. It seems the left and liberals alike have been largely silent on what they affirmatively believe should be done to address the immigration backlog at the border. We are able to say what we don't like about Biden's or the Republicans' policy. But what should actually be done instead? We are often accused of wanting open borders. What if we owned it? Is it possible to both prioritize the interests of American workers and have a humane border policy? Are we falling into the trap of believing a tradeoff is necessary?
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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Succession/The Good Place/Watchmen writer Cord Jefferson's adaptation of Percival Everett's novel Erasure is getting Oscar buzz, but does American Fiction deserve the hype? Writers Jason England and Bertrand Cooper join director/actor/writer Mtume Gant to discuss. Do meaningful departures from the book indicate a disinterest in working class politics that cut to the heart of what Everett was trying to say in his novel? Or are they good cuts in service of the economy of film? Is the basis of satire in the 20-year-old book -- the interest of white audiences in Black "struggle" literature -- still current now that more middle class Black authors have access to publishing houses? Did the movie miss an opportunity to pick a new target -- say, the BLM protest to hype-house grift? Or does it capture a still-relevant critique of Black elites and the stories that make them rich?
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Former Ohio Representative and youngest mayor of a major American city Dennis Kucinich joins Bad Faith to talk about his campaign to return to the House representing Cleveland's 7th district and his tenure as campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Brie asks whether RFK Jr. and Kucinich parted ways over Israel, and the pair debate immigration takes -- but not before the two Buckeyes establish whether Dennis & Brie's mom grew up on the same street.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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