Did the NYPD go too far turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio? We talk with The Nation Magazine’s Patricia Williams who writes Diary of A Mad Law Professor. Plus Film Critic Michael Snyder tells us his top 15 movies for 2014. Patricia J. Williams is an American legal scholar and a proponent of critical race theory, a school of legal thought that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system. She is currently the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University where she has taught since 1991.
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America’s Atheist Explosion
Atheists now outnumber Jews and Muslims in America as the number of Americans turning their backs on organized religion has jumped in the past decade. Our guest Phil Zuckerman is author of “Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions.“ Professor Zuckerman teaches sociology at Pitzer College. He is the author of several books, including Society Without God (2008) for which he won ForeWord Magazine’s silver book of the year award, and Faith No More (2011.)
David Feldman Radio Show: Who Owns Russia?
Professor Karen Dawisha of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the Director of the University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies joins the show to talk about her new book “Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?”.
David Feldman Radio Show: Coming To Terms With Torture
Ralph Nader stops by to talk about Andrew Cuomo’s decision to ban fracking in the state of New York. Then we go to Brazil to talk to Human’s Right Watch about Brazil’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission finally coming to terms with the torture that took place under the military dictatorship nearly 30 years ago, and if America will ever come to terms with our own human rights violations.
Cosby & Fear of The Black Man
Professor of Law Jody Armour joins the show today to talk with David about Bill Cosby, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and the state of racism in America today.
David Feldman Radio Show: LGBT & New York Cops
Zack Ford, the LGBT editor for Think Progress discusses the relationship between New York City cops and the LGBT community. Plus Michael Snyder with movie reviews, and Howie Klein on some late breaking news from China and what was hidden in the $585 billion defense authorization bill that was recently passed by Congress.