Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein worries he created a monster after David won’t stop about demonizing everyone who works for a health insurance corporation.
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Has Howie Klein Created A Monster?
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Does Donald Trump Know What Bastille Day Is?
Does Donald Trump know what Bastille Day is? World Politics Review Editor Judah Grunstein on the irony of Donald Trump traveling to Paris to celebrate the French Revolution.
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Comic Paul Gilmartin & Journalist David Dayen
Comic Fred Stoller, Storyteller Dylan Brody and Constitutional Law Professor Corey Brettschneider. Paul Gilmartin hosts The Mental Illness Happy Hour and talks about coping as well as curing problems of the mind. David Dayen writes for The Nation, The New Republic, American Prospect and The Intercept. He talks about who the real culprits are behind rising drug costs and why California’s attempt to pass Single Payer has stalled. Professor Corey Brettschneider on why we need to impeach Trump as soon as possible and why Neil Gorsuch may turn out to be more conservative than Antonin Scalia. Dylan Brody has been called a genius by David Sedaris. He’s also been called a genius by David Feldman, but who cares what Feldman thinks? Dylan is performing his new one man show “Driving Hollywood” at The Pit all this month in Manhattan. Fred Stoller’s new book is “Five Minutes To Kill.” He’s currently working on a new book about his mother Pearl.
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Is Neil Gorsuch More Conservative Than Scalia?
Constitutional Law Professor Corey Brettschneider warns that Neil Gorsuch may turn out to be more conservative than Antonin Scalia. Professor Brettschneider is author of “When The State Speaks.”
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Corey Brettschneider is professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches courses in constitutional law and political theory. He is currently also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Brettschneider was a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, a Rockefeller faculty fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School, and a faculty fellow at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics. Brettschneider received a PhD in politics from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford University. He is the author of When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007). These books have been the subject of several journal symposia, including one most recently published in the Brooklyn Law Review. Brettschneider is also the author of a casebook, Constitutional Law and American Democracy: Cases and Readings (Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2011). His articles include “Sovereign and State: A Democratic Theory of Sovereign Immunity,” forthcoming in Texas Law Review; “Value Democracy as the Basis for Viewpoint Neutrality,” in Northwestern Law Review (2013); “A Transformative Theory of Religious Freedom,” in Political Theory (2010); “When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? Democratic Persuasion and the Freedom of Expression,” in Perspectives on Politics (2010); and “The Politics of the Personal: A Liberal Approach,” in the American Political Science Review (2007).
Who’s To Blame for High Cost of Pharmaceuticals?
Journalist David Dayen stops by to talk about who’s to blame for the high cost of pharmaceuticals and his recent long form in The American Prospect entitled, “The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices, How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators.”
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Fred Stoller on Comedy And His Mother
Comic Fred Stoller stops by to talk about his comedy career and how it effected his relationship with his mother. Fred’s new book is “Five Minutes To Kill.”
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