Virtually Speaking

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Latest Episodes

Richard Mayhew: Health Care Policy Prognosis
February 14, 2017

The Republicans are Coming. What they can and can't do to the PPACA

Marcy Wheeler: Fake News is Nothing New
February 07, 2017

Fake News? Not just Moldavian teens making scratch. Pols' lies. Media narratives. Alien abductions

Ian Welsh: Dark Ages
January 12, 2017

How can whole societies lose their culture and technologies? Ian reviews Jane Jacobs "Dark Age Ahead"

Arthur Lupia: Uninformed
November 20, 2016

Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It

Democracy's Missing Arsenal: Bloodshed Universal-Slavery Triumphant
October 16, 2016

What if the South had won the Civil War? What would have happened in Europe and Latin America? John Bredehoft and Mike King have one answer

Thomas Levenson: The Hunt for Vulcan
October 06, 2016

Not quite the Hunting of the Snark, Tom talks about how Einstein found the invisible and changed the how we see the cosmos

Catherine Fletcher: The Black Prince of Florence
September 29, 2016

The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici Prince of Florence

Cathy O'Neil On Weapons of Math Destruction
September 22, 2016

A former hedge fund quant explores mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric

Gaius Publius: Two Intertwined Crises--Climate Change and Wealth Inequality
September 15, 2016

Addressing climate issues requires addressing wealth inequality at the same time.

Virtually Speaking with Richard Eskow
September 01, 2016

Progressive policy opportunities in a centrist environment. Behind the scenes at the Sanders campaign