The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast
Episodes
Episode 1.14: The Emancipation of All: Marxism in the Age of Identity Politics – Asad Haider
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. “Identity politics” is a term typically marshaled to attack something the speaker dislikes, whether it a cons...
Episode 1.13: Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians in the Shadow of the Holocaust - Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora co...
Episode 1.12: Human Rights Are Not Enough to Fix an Unequal World - Samuel Moyn
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. The rise of human rights as an international ideal has not only failed to address the longstanding problem of distri...
Episode 1.11: Taking a Pound of Flesh: The Punitive Impacts of Monetary Sanctions - Alexes Harris
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. More than seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their criminal records d...
Episode 1.10: Men Die Quicker, Women Get Sicker: Gender Disparities in Health Policy and Research - Chloe Bird
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. For many decades, health researchers assumed that they knew how to correct for gender – specifically, how to take rese...
Episode 1.9: The Quiet Conservative - An Interview with Jeb Bush
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: AUDREY JAQUISS. The 43rd Governor of Florida and presidential candidate JEB BUSH is currently a Penn Presidential Professor of Practice a...
Episode 1.8: Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Social Inequality - Bruce and Craig McEwen
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: MARTHA FARAH. Combining the perspectives of neuroscience and sociology, brothers BRUCE MCEWEN (head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken H...
Episode 1.7: The Criminal Justice System as a Predatory Revenue Racket - Joe Soss
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. In March 2016, American learned from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that the city of Ferguson, Missouri had be...
Episode 1.6: Partisan Gerrymandering and the Rise of Democracy Deserts - David Daley
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Since the days of Massachusetts Governor Eldridge Gerry (pronounced with a hard g), whose 1812 redistricting plan for th...
Episode 1.5: The Decline of American Labor and the Rise of Inequality – Brishen Rogers
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Union membership in the United States has experienced a long decline. From a peak of over 30 percent of the labor force...
Episode 1.4: The Mediated Cacophony of Facebook and Its Threat to Democracy - Siva Vaidhyanathan
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. The ways in which Facebook pollutes public discourse are inherent and inescapable features of its business model, argues...