Virtually Speaking
Latest Episodes
Richard Mayhew: Health Care Policy Prognosis
The Republicans are Coming. What they can and can't do to the PPACA
Marcy Wheeler: Fake News is Nothing New
Fake News? Not just Moldavian teens making scratch. Pols' lies. Media narratives. Alien abductions
Ian Welsh: Dark Ages
How can whole societies lose their culture and technologies? Ian reviews Jane Jacobs "Dark Age Ahead"
Arthur Lupia: Uninformed
Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It
Democracy's Missing Arsenal: Bloodshed Universal-Slavery Triumphant
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
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
The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici Prince of Florence
Cathy O'Neil On Weapons of Math Destruction
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
Addressing climate issues requires addressing wealth inequality at the same time.
Virtually Speaking with Richard Eskow
Progressive policy opportunities in a centrist environment. Behind the scenes at the Sanders campaign