Interviews

Below are some of my favorite interviews with inspiring and illuminating people. They are from four podcasts: This is What Democracy Looks Like, Current Affairs, Dorothy’s Place, and All Rise!

Union organizer Jane McAlevey on organizing for power in the New Gilded Age (Current Affairs, April 2019 | view transcript):

Urban design crusader Chuck Marohn on how to create thriving towns and cities (Current Affairs, July 2019):

Documentarian, author, and activist Astra Taylor on her radically democratic life and work (Current Affairs, February 2019):

Ralph Nader on the potential of young people, political tactics, and the advantages of being an outsider (Current Affairs, June 2019 | view transcript):

Cooperative lawyer Jason Weiner on the power of cooperatives (This is What Democracy Looks Like, March 2021):

Virgil Texas on his groundbreaking podcast Chapo Trap House (Current Affairs, April 2019)

Elias Crim on localism, solidarity, and the Christian Left (Current Affairs, November 2019)

Sociologist Zach Wehrwein on relational sociology (Current Affairs, April 2020)

Nathan J. Robinson and I on our shared love of Mister Rogers (Current Affairs, December 2018)

Sparky Abraham and I on the meaning of localism (Current Affairs, September 2020)

Rep. Vaughn Stewart on pushing bold policy in the Maryland statehouse (Current Affairs, December 2018)

Investigative journalist Jesse Eisinger on corporate crime fighting (Current Affairs, October 2018)

Adam K. Webb on cosmopolitan traditionalism (Dorothy’s Place with Elias Crim, September 2019)

Karol Soltan on the Civic Studies movement (Dorothy’s Place with Elias Crim, October 2017)

Death penalty abolitionist Carol Steiker (All Rise! with Brady Bender, July 2017)

Harvard Law School library director and internet law scholar Jonathan Zittrain (All Rise! with Brady Bender, April 2016)

Demos director Heather McGhee (All Rise! with Brady Bender, April 2017)

Khiara Bridges on Critical Race Theory and the anthropology of law (All Rise! with Brady Bender, July 2017)

Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy (All Rise! with Brady Bender, April 2016)

Judge Nancy Gertner on sentencing (All Rise! with Brady Bender, August 2017)

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