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The Progressive Page Turner: Alan Weisman – Hope Dies Last

Friday, April 11, 2025

On Friday April 11th, 2025 at 6:30pm I’ll be interviewing Alan Weisman. In his new book Hope Dies Last Weisman documents how people from all over the world are coping with our ecological predicament. The stories range from rewatering the marsh that might have been the Biblical garden of Eden to kelp farming, fusion reactors […]

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The Progressive Page Turner: Sonali Kolhatkar Talking about Abolition

Friday, March 7, 2025

Locking people away for long periods of time seems like a tough but effective way to deal with crime but multiple studies have shown that states with draconian sentences have the same amount of crime as states with more lenient laws. Imprisoning just one person costs tens of thousands of dollars per year and there’s […]

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The Progressive Page Turner – Jared Yates Sexton Midnight Kingdom

Thursday, February 27, 2025

In the late 1970’s and early 80’s the New Deal era where the government regulated businesses and protected citizens from the excesses of capitalism was overturned by Neoliberalism the idea that the market, left to its own devices, would produce an optimal economic system. Neoliberalism was wildly successful at producing billionaires. Their incredible wealth, disproportionate […]

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The Progressive Page Turner: Todd May – Should We Go Extinct?

Friday, February 14, 2025

In his book Should We Go Extinct Todd May takes an objective look at what we add to the community of life on the planet and what we destroy. This isn’t a call to end humanity as much as it’s a call to be better humans and citizens of Earth. You can hear the program […]

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The Progressive Page Turner: Jo-Ann Finkelstein – Sexism & Sensibility

Friday, January 31, 2025

Raising girls has never been easy but in the age of social media it’s even harder. According to a 2024 study by the CDC over half of teen girls feel “persistently sad or hopeless.” In this episode of The Progressive Page Turner I talk with Jo-Ann Finkelstein about her book Sexism & Sensibility. She has […]

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The Progressive Page Turner: David Noll – Vigilante Nation: How State Sponsored Terrorism Threatens our Democracy

Thursday, January 16, 2025

After Roe was overturned the abortion ban in Texas included a bounty hunter clause that would allow vigilantes to enforce the law. This is the sort of alliance between private citizens and the state that allowed the reign of terror by the KKK to flourish. But blue states are not entirely without weapons in this […]

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The Progressive Page Turner – Tom Kemp – Containing Big Tech

Friday, December 20, 2024

Billions of people all over the world use apps and websites. We have an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips but it’s also allowed detailed dossiers to be collected on all of us. While most of the collected data is used for advertising there’s also the possibility of data being used for law enforcement […]

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The Progressive Page Turner: Annalee Newitz Stories are Weapons

Friday, December 6, 2024

In their book Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind Annalee Newitz looks at how the manipulation of information has distorted American history and influenced current elections. The interview will air on Friday, Dec. 6th at 6:30pm or you can listen to the podcast version here

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The Progressive Page Turner – David Jay Brown

Friday, November 22, 2024

In his book Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity David Jay Brown interviews people who look at the world in some very non-traditional ways. I talked to him about how we experience the world and why psychedelics like DMT might be the door to a new understanding of our minds and consciousness. This episode of The […]

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The Progressive Page Turner: Robert Jensen – It’s Debatable

Friday, November 8, 2024

Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Join me Friday, November 8th at 6:30 pm for a wide ranging discussion based on his latest book, It’s Debatable, Or you can […]