Is This Democracy
Is This Democracy. The podcast where we discuss the ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America. Hosted by Lilliana Mason and Thomas Zimmer
This one is a referral from Unf*cker John R. who wrote: “Wanted to turn you on to another podcast I discovered recently. It's called "Is this Democracy" and it examines the state of American democracy past and present and examines the American experiment in terms of addressing the question of "how much democracy and for whom?" It's a fascinating deep dive into the nature of small-d democracy by two academics and one working journalist and it definitely scratches my itch for deep intellectual history.”
Economic Update with Richard Wolff
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