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Ian Welsh: Dark Ages from 2017-01-13T03:00
Ian Welsh has been blogging since 2003. He was the Managing Editor of FireDogLake and the Agonist. His work has also appeared at Huffington Post, Alternet, and Truthout, as well as the now defunc...
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Richard Eskow & Dave Dayen • VS Sundays from 2015-04-27T03:00
TPP. Why is the Transpacific Partnership the hill Obama is willing to die for?
Why can't we have nice tihngs l? Why is it so difficult to implement obviously good public policy?
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Stuart Zechman & Jay Ackroyd: What Is To Be Done? from 2014-12-21T01:00
Collaboration between powerful private and public interests has become the ruling force in the United States, and the OECD. This collaboration operates in conflict, and in oppostion to, the welfare...
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Marcy Wheeler and Patrick Eddington: Intelligence Oversight from 2014-10-31T02:00
Marcy Wheeler, one of America's premiere investigative journalists focusing on civil liberties, the military/intelligence and other national security issues is the author of the definitive book on ...
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Gaius Publius and Robert Cruickshank: Five Questions from 2014-10-28T22:52:13
While attending the 2014 Netroots Nation conference, Gaius Publius — contributing writer at AmericaBlog and member of the Virtually Speaking Sunday media panel — conducted three interviews under th...
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Gaius Publius and Economist Stephanie Kelton: Five Questions from 2014-10-01T22:00
While attending the 2014 Netroots Nation conference, Gaius Publius — contributing writer at AmericaBlog and member of the Virtually Speaking Sunday media panel — conducted three interviews under th...
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Gaius Publius and Rep. Keith Ellison: Five Questions from 2014-09-30T22:34:42
While attending the 2014 Netroots Nation conference, Gaius Publius — contributing writer at AmericaBlog and member of the Virtually Speaking Sunday media panel — conducted three interviews under th...
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Gaius Publius & RJ Eskow: Progressive Politics Following the NY Governor's Race from 2014-09-26T03:00
What does it mean for progressive politics that Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu won 35% and 40% of the New York state vote, respectively, in an almost-unfunded campaign against entrenched Democratic inc...
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Philip Napoli: Oral History of NYC Vietnam Vets from 2014-09-12T03:00
Brooklyn College History professor and oral historian Philip Napoli joins us to discuss his book Bringing It All Back Home, an oral history of the war and homecoming experiences of New York City's ...
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Jennifer Ouellette & Spiros Michalakis • The Joys of Quantum Physics from 2014-09-11T04:48:32
Jennifer Ouellette talks with Caltech physicist Spyridon (Spiros) Michalakis about quantum computing and quantum information.
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Brian Burghart • Fatal Encounters: Citizen Deaths by Law Enforcement from 2014-09-05T03:00
Editor/publisher of the Reno News & Review, D. Brian Burghart has established Fatal Encounters, a comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with law enforc...
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Rick Perlstein: The Invisible Bridge from 2014-08-29T02:00
Historian Rick Perlstein returns to Virtually Speaking to discuss his new book, The Invisible Bridge. Blogger extraordinaire Digby joins us as guest interviewer. RIck has described Digby this way...
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Rick Perlstein: Nixonland from 2014-08-15T01:00
This is a rerun of Jay Ackroyd's interview with Rick Perlstein, about his monumental tour de force, Nixonland. Rick is one of the nation's leading popular historians, and, until now, the capstone o...
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Richard Eskow: Insiders vs Outsiders from 2014-08-08T01:00
Richard (RJ) Eskow has a rich history of engagement with public policy making, in the Eastern Europe transition to market economies, in addition to extensive technical work in health care and finan...
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Steve Keen • Debunking Economics from 2014-08-01T03:00
Australian economist and author Steve Keen considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticizing neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. He and Jay will talk abo...
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Tom Levenson & David Kaiser • How the Hippies Saved Physics from 2014-07-31T04:38:08
Tom Levenson talks with MIT science historian David Kaiser about the development of physics in the United States during the Cold War and Kaiser's latest book 'How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science...
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Tom Levenson & Naomi Oreskes - Climate and the Collapse of Western Civilizat from 2014-07-10T03:00
Tom Levenson hosts Science Historian Naomi Oreskes, author The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
Speculative fiction meets historical perspective. 3 centuries "follo...
David Margolick • Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit from 2014-06-06T03:00
David Margolick, senior contributor at Vanity Fair, discusses his book Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song. He takes us back to 1939 when Billie Holiday first performed, and then recorded, one...
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Steven Durlauf • Thomas Piketty "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" from 2014-05-30T03:00
Steven Durlauf, is the Kenneth Arrow professor of Economics at the university of Wisconsin. He's an expert on growth theory, co-editor of the prestigious North Holland handbook series volume on ec...
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Marcy Wheeler • Intelligence in Domestic and Foreign policy from 2014-05-23T01:00
The role of intelligence in U.S. domestic and foreign policy, a conversation beween investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler and Jay Ackroyd. One of a series of conversations about surveilllance, nat...
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June Carbone&Naomi Cahn: Marriage Markets from 2014-04-25T01:00
June Carbone & Naomi Cahn, authors of Marriage Markets, talk with Jay Ackroyd about the economics of family life, children, marriage, social structure.
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Maria Headley: Fact & Fiction in Journalism & Literature from 2014-04-04T03:00
In one of a series of conversation on literature, film, brain function, historiography, hagiography and memoirs, Jay Ackroyd talks with Maria Dahvana Headley about fact & fiction in journalism & li...
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Isaac Martin • Rich People's Movements • Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2014-03-07T03:00
Jay talks with Isaac Martin; fiscal sociologist and author of Rich People's Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent. One of a series of conversations exploring wealth, privilege an...
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Alan Boyle & Jennifer Ouellette: Searching for the Science of Self from 2014-03-06T04:30
Alan Boyle talks with Jennifer Ouellette. In Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self, she turns her attention to the mysteries of human identity and behavior; drawing on genetics, neu...
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David Brin Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2014-02-21T03:00
Author David Brin recently updated his essay Why Transparency will Save Privacy. Jay and David discuss the implications of recent revelations of US government surveillance activities.
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Peter Moskos: Drug Legalization from 2014-01-31T03:00
Peter Moskos is an associate professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also on the faculty of CUNY's Doc...
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Stephanie Kelton&Gaius Publius Virtually Speaking from 2014-01-22T02:00
Stephanie Kelton, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the top-ranked blog New Economic Pe...
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Tom Levenson & Deborah Blum: The Poisoner's Handbook from 2014-01-16T03:00
Tom Levenson talks about The Poisoner's Handbook poison, the emergence of systematic chemistry as a tool, the issues we face of our ignorance of so much of the chemical universe — the West Virginia...
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Stuart Zechman&Joseph White VS Counterpoints: Health Care System from 2014-01-08T02:00
Stuart Zechman discusses the policy framework that underlies the US health care system with Joseph White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy at Case Western Reserve University. Professor W...
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Lizz Winstead & KC Boyd: Being Christian from 2013-12-18T04:00
In this special edition, Lizz Winstead and KC Boyd discuss KC's new novel novel Being Christian.
The book tells the story of a larger-than-life, yet familiar, character from his crime-rid...
Kevin Murphy & Stuart Zechman • Defining Liberalism & Progressivism from 2013-12-12T03:00
Kevin C. Murphy & Stuart Zechman discuss the difference between modern ¨liberalism¨ and modern ¨progressivism.´ Five minutes excerpted from this longer conversation where Stuart Zechman and Kevin C...
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The Reid Rule: Filibuster Reform • Joan McCarter&David Waldman from 2013-11-23T00:00
Joan McCarter and David Waldman discusses the implications of the Reid Rule, and the future of the filibuster in the Senate. David (KagroX) has been working on this issue for at least 6 years, as r...
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Geoffrey Kabaservice VS with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-11-22T03:00
The reality-challenged far right wing of the Republican Party coming to power is not a new development in American politics. Geoffrey Kabaservice discusses the post-war history of the conservative ...
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Karen Ho Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-10-18T03:00
Anthropologist Karen Ho comes by to talk about Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, based on interviews with employees of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JPMor...
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David Kahn Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-10-11T03:00
David Kahn – universally regarded as the dean of intelligence historians – recounts the desperate efforts to gather information during World War II and the Cold War. In
How I Discovered World ...
Bruce Schneier VIrtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-10-04T02:30
Security and crytography expert Bruce Schneier, author of Secrets and Lies and most recently, Liars and Outliers discusses the recent NSA revelations. Follow @schneierblog @jayackroyd
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David Neiwert & Cliff Schecter Virtually Speaking from 2013-09-27T03:00
Cliff Schecter — nationally syndicated columnist and political commentator — talks with investigative journalist & author David Neiwert, about And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of ...
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What digby said: Deficit Fever from 2013-09-23T19:30
Excerpted from Sept 22 hour-long conversation with Susie Madrak and Stephanie Kelton. Listen here.
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digby, Susie Madrak, Stephanie Kelton VSSundays from 2013-09-23T03:00
Political & social commentators digby and Susie Madrak, offer a counter point to the Sunday morning talk shows. They compare notes from their observations, investigations and considerations of the ...
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Tim Noah Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-09-20T03:00
Journalist Tim Noah, author The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It talks with host Jay Ackroyd.
Noah provides evidence of two inequality trends:...
Juan Cole: Syrian climate, economics and politics from 2013-09-14T02:00
In this excerpt from a Sept 12, 2013 hour long conversation with Jay Ackroyd, Juan Cole links the climate, economics and politics of the Middle East, Syria in particular.
Juan Cole Virtually Speaking Jay Ackroyd from 2013-09-13T01:00
Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in the Middle East and South Asia. Juan talks with Jay Ackroyd about Egypt,...
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Richard Eskow, Jay Ackroyd: ObamaCare&Adverse Selection from 2013-09-11T01:00
In this 5 min clip, taken from Virtually Speaking Sundays — recorded live on Sept 8, 2013 — Richard — RJ — Eskow speaks with Jay Ackroyd about the quality of insurance under Obamacare. They make th...
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Kevin Murphy Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2013-08-23T03:00
Kevin Murphy - speechwriter, ghostwriter, researcher, editor, and advisor to progressive campaigns and political organizations, talks wth host Jay Ackroyd. They talk about 1920s progressve context...
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Lynn Stout: The Shareholder Value Myth from 2013-08-09T01:00
Lynn Stout joins Jay Ackroyd to discuss her book, The Shareholder Value Myth. The idea that a public corporation has one, and only objective--to maximize shareholder value is such a widely held ide...
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David Cay Johnston: Chief Justice RobertsIdeological Radical from 2013-06-30T00:00
Clipped from a June 27 hour-long conversation with Jay Ackroyd. Listen here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2013/06/28/david-cay-johnston-virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd
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Dan Ellsberg&Glenn Greenwald: Circe's Potion from 2013-06-28T04:00
Dan Ellsberg relates a conversation with Henry Kissenger in which he — Ellsberg — describes what happens to people as they become privy to closely held and sensitive government information. The yea...
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Peter Moskos Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-06-14T03:00
Militarization of the police. A former Baltimore Police Dep't officer Peter Moskos teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center in the Department of Sociology. He is...
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David Brin Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2013-06-07T03:00
David Brin explores transparency, security, privacy & openness inThe Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Winner of the Freedom of Speech Award of t...
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Dean Baker Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-05-24T01:00
Economist Dean Baker and Jay Ackroyd discuss the current state of the economics profession. More here: Center for Economic Policy & Research http://www.cepr.net/ Follow @deanbaker13 @jayackroyd @...
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Ian Welsh Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-04-26T01:00
Toronto based social media consultant, editor and writer Ian Welsh writes at IanWelsh.com. Formerly the Managing Editor of FireDogLake and the Agonist, his work has also appeared at Huffington Post...
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Jay Rosen, Stuart Zechman, Jay Ackroyd VS Sundays from 2013-04-09T16:00
Prof. Jay Rosen — Twitter mindcaster extraordinary, NYU J-school Prof and Studio 20 program Director at NYU, media critic and student of new media — talks with Stuart Zechman about the ideology of...
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Alan Boyle&George Djorgovski VS Science from 2013-04-05T04:00
Recorded April 3. Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle and CalTech astrophysicist George Djorgovski discuss education in cyberspace: the challenges, opportunities and value. http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_n...
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Cliff Schecter&Gaius Publius Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2013-03-25T01:00
Two members of our media panel discuss developments of the week, countering the narratives of the traditional media, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented or otherwise messed with on the ...
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Stephanie Kelton Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-03-22T01:00
Seriously good stuff. An accessible master's class in economics. In this combined and lightly edited rerun of conversations recorded June 2012 and Feb 2013, Jay Ackroyd and Stephanie Kelton, Profe...
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Tom Levenson & Emily Anthes: VS Science from 2013-03-21T02:00
Recorded earlier today.
Tom Levenson - filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - hosts Emily Anthes. author of Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts. They'll disc...
Jennifer Ouellette & Janna Levin Virtually Speaking Science from 2013-03-14T02:00
Jennifer Ouellette hosts theoretical astrophysicist Janna Levin. They chat about the latest on black holes, the sounds of the early universe, Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, how writing fiction is dif...
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David Dayen & Dave Waldman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2013-03-11T02:00
Two writers from our media panel discuss developments of the week, countering the narratives of the traditional media, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented or otherwise messed with on t...
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Robert Trivers Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2013-03-08T03:00
Jay Ackroyd hosts American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert L. Trivers, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers stopped by to discuss issue...
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Bruce Schneier Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2013-02-22T03:00
Bruce Schneier returns to talk about his new book, Liars and Outliers. He and host Jay Ackroyd discuss the nature of trust and its relationship to a well functioning and stable society.
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Tom Levenson & Cynthia Graber Virtually Speaking Science from 2013-02-21T03:00
Host Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author and professor of science writing at MIT - talks with print and radio journalist Cynthia Graber. She writes about science, food, culture, international developm...
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Joan McCarter & Marcy Wheeler & digby VS Sundays from 2013-02-11T03:00
Political writers Joan McCarter and digby, and investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler talk about drones and the US government's argument for murdering Americans overseas if they (the CIA) are acti...
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Economist Stephanie Kelton Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2013-02-08T03:00
Stephanie Kelton discusses Modern Monetary Theory with Jay Ackroyd. They begin with the platinum coin and the nature of fiat currency.
A Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kans...
Culture of Truth: Preemption from 2013-02-04T04:00
Drawing from The Bobblespeak Translations, each week, political satirist Culture of Truth presents 'the most ridiculous moment' from Meet the Press. Read today's full transcript here: http://moons...
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Remembering Aaron Swartz: Richard Eskow from 2013-02-01T06:00
Richard (RJ) Eskow reads his Jan 14, 2013 essay: Aaron Swartz Was Gifted and Brave. Too Bad He Wasn't 'Too Big to Fail.' Read the text, and find the links, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj...
Stirling Newberry: It's the Stupid Economy from 2013-02-01T03:00
"It's the economy, stupid."
Host Jay Ackroyd talks with historian and composer Stirling Newberry, a regular contributor to articles on Economics, Philosophy, Classical music and Social mov...
Remembering Aaron Swartz: Matt Stoller from 2013-01-29T23:00
Matt Stoller reads his Jan 14, 2013 essay: Aaron Swartz's Politics. Read the text at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-swartzs-politics.html Follow @MatthewStoller
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Dave Johnson & David Waldman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2013-01-28T03:00
Political & social commentators Dave Johnson and Dave Waldman - aka KagroX - discuss developments of the week. Likely threads: filibuster, collapse of the debt ceiling threat with attendant shift...
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Stuart Zechman: Bill of Rights from 2013-01-22T03:00
Stuart Zechman comments on the 2nd Amendment:
Excerpted from a longer conversations with Jay Ackroyd, here:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, th...
Stuart Zechman, Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2013-01-21T03:00
Stuart and Jay discuss developments of the week.
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Mike Lux Pragmatism and Power from 2013-01-18T03:00
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Mike Lux - co-founder and President of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm focused on strategic political consulting for non-profits, labor unions, PACs ...
Trevor Aaronson on The Terror Factory with Marcy Wheeler from 2013-01-11T03:00
Investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) joins Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory, in which he reveals shocking information about the criminals, con men and liars the FBI use...
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Kevin Drum, Sam Wang, Jay Ackroyd: Lead & Crime from 2013-01-06T03:00
Kevin Drum, political blogger and writer for Mother Jones magazine and neurobiologist Sam Wang - Dept of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute - join Jay Ackroyd. They conside...
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Sam Wang, Kevin Drum Lead, Crime and Neuroscience from 2013-01-04T03:00
Sam Wang, Associate professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, joins Jay Ackroyd to discuss his work in neuroscience, particulary the books he has co-auth...
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RERUN Brad DeLong Virtualy Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-12-28T03:00
Back in March 2011, Randolph Azarov, also known as The Raven, posted a comment on a Virtually Speaking episode featuring UC-Berkeley Economics Professor Brad DeLong. Brad recently referred to that...
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David Haskell on Rachel Carson and Wonder from 2012-12-25T06:00
Excerpted from a Dec 19 conversation, biologist David Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen, reflects on Rachel Carson and the gift of wonder.
The entire episode, hosted by Tom Leven...
Maya Rockeymoore Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-12-21T03:00
Maya Rockeymoore - President and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, D.C., policy consulting firm with a social change mission - and Jay discuss challenges for liberals in a centrist env...
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David Atkins Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-12-14T03:00
Hullabaloo contributer David Atkins and Jay discuss the difficulties of implementing obviously good public policy, and what that says about American institutions. And then recent fiscal myth devel...
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Bill Black Virtually Speaking wth Jay Ackroyd from 2012-12-07T03:00
Jay visits with William K. Black, white-collar criminologist, former financial regulator and author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One,” They talk about the financial follies that still ...
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Alan Boyle & Paul Doherty Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-12-06T05:00
The Exploratorium’s Senior Staff Scientist, physicist Paul Doherty shares the latest news about NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission from the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco – and join...
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Joan McCarter & Marcy Wheeler Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-12-03T03:00
Joan McCarter and Marcy Wheeler discuss the issues of the week. Culture of Truth offers his satirical view of the Sunday morning talk shows.
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RJ Eskow & Dave Johnson Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-11-19T03:00
RJ Eskow and Dave Johnson consider fiscal cliff scare talk, shock doctrine scripting, social security and medicare.
Richard Eskow: Consultant/writer at Campaign for America's Future (econ, so...
David Cay Johnston Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-11-16T02:00
David Cay Johnston is President of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), an education organization with 4,200 members. A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, David won the Pulitzer Prize in 20...
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Sam Wang of the Princeton Election Consortium from 2012-11-09T02:00
Sam Wang - who has been adding science to electoral predictions since 2004 - and Jay discuss why the "professional pundts" were all over the electoral map while Sam and his fellow poll aggregators ...
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Dave Waldman & Cliff Schecter Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-10-29T02:00
Cliff Schecter & David Waldman talk politics with Jay Ackroyd.
Follow @CliffSchecter @KagroX
Also featuring Culture of Truth's satire of the Most Ridiculous Thing That Happened This Sund...
Marcy Wheeler and Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-10-22T03:00
Stuart Zechman talks with Marcy Wheeler, one of America's great investigative journalists, about Benghazi; NE unemployment and Third Way 'recovery' and 'stimulus;' and the constitutional amendment...
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MIT's Nancy Hopkins, Tom Levenson Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-10-18T03:00
Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Nancy Hopkins, Amgen professor of biology at MIT about molecular biology, cancer research, Jim Watson, Rosalind Franklin, th...
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Jennifer Ouellette & Annie Murphy Paul VS Science from 2012-10-11T03:00
Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette welcomes Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing (why the Myers Briggs and similar tests are little more than modern horoscopes); ...
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Neil Barofsky Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-10-05T03:00
Jay and Neil Barofsky discuss Neil's new book, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street and the warring NYT reviews of Jackie Calmes and Gretch...
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Culture of Truth: Human Sacrifice from 2012-10-01T06:00
From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled 'Human Sacrifice.' Follow @Bobblespeak
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Avedon Carol & Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-10-01T03:00
In our alternative to the Sunday morning 'news' shows, two members of our media panel - this week it's Avedon Carol and Stuart Zechman - discuss current political and cultural developments from a ...
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Lizz Winstead Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-09-28T04:00
Lizz Winstead, co-founder and producer of The Daily Show, comedian and author of Lizz Free or Diejoins us to talk about Elizabeth Warren, political literacty and the critical role Twitter plays in...
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Stuart Zechman's Z Files: Big MacPharma from 2012-09-27T03:30
Stuart Zechman offers commentary on Health Care Reform legislation, imagining Big Macs and McDonald's as stand ins for Big Pharma and pills. Follow @Stuart_Zechman
Avedon Carol posted th...
Stuart Zechman's Z Files: Separation from 2012-09-24T12:00
Stuart Zechman offers commentary on how President Obama and NARAL sold out women in a move that erases even more of the 1st Amendment's protection of religious liberty. Follow @StuartZechman
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Culture of Truth: Skin in the Game from 2012-09-24T04:00
From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled 'Skin in the Game' ... Follow @Bobblespeak
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Maggie Koerth-Baker, Tom Levenson from 2012-09-20T03:00
Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Maggie Koerth-Baker, Science Editor at Boingboing.net and columnist for @nytmag. Maggie is the author of Before the Lights ...
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Culture of Truth: Bibi from 2012-09-17T06:00
From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Bibi ... Follow @Bobblespeak
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Avedon Carol, Gaius Publius Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-09-17T03:00
In an alternative to the Sunday morning 'news' shows, two members of our media panel discuss current political and cultural developments from a progressive perspective.
Avedon Carol is a...
Prof. Matt Strassler and The Quest for the Higgs Particle from 2012-09-13T04:00
Prof. Matt Strassler (Rutgers U.) and The Quest for the Higgs Particle
A new Higgs-like particle has recently been observed at the Large Hadron Collider. The quest to find this...
Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2012-09-12T03:00
Stuart (@stuart_zechman) and Jay (@jayackroyd) discuss mendacity: its role in this year's presidential campaign--and in the centrist media narrative.
Culture of Truth: Allies from 2012-09-10T06:00
From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Allies.
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Cliff Schecter, David Dayen Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-09-10T03:00
Cliff and David discuss the conventions, and the campaigns going forward in our post-truth era. Follow.@DDayen @CliffSchecter
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Christopher Sprigman Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-09-09T03:00
Christopher Sprigman (@CJSprigman) discusses The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation his book co-authored with Kal Raustiala on the importance of imitation in innovation, and...
Stuart Zechman's Z Files: Third Way from 2012-09-08T06:00
Stuart Zechman uses representative quotes from politicians to clarify differences between liberal and conservative thinking about public policy. Along the way, he illuminates 'Third Way' Democrats...
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Glen Ford, Avedon Carol Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-09-07T03:00
Glen Ford - executive editor of Black Agenda Report
- talks with Avedon Carol and Jay Ackroyd about Barack Obama and the Democratic Party: recognizing what's happening and figuring out what t...
Stuart Zechman's Z Files: Equivalence from 2012-09-03T07:00
Stuart Zechman describes how "false equivalence" has come to mean something very different during the Obama administration than it meant during the GW Bush administration. Follow @Stuart_Zechman
Culture of Truth: Newt! from 2012-09-03T05:00
From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Newt!.
Transcript will be posted to the Bobblespeak Tra...
Stuart Zechman's Z Files: Extremists from 2012-08-31T06:00
Stuart Zechman deconstructs the 'be very afraid' meme of extremism used by political parties and the media, reminding us that crazy Republicans are nothing new. Nor are centrist Democratic policy ...
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Jay Rosen, James Fallows Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-08-31T01:00
Jay Rosen and James Fallows discuss the evolution of news media over the last 20 years, or so, focusing on changing narratives on the balance between security and liberty and 4th Amendment protecti...
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Jennifer Ouellette & Tom Levenson Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-08-30T03:00
Recorded earlier today
Tom Levenson - Prof of Writing at MIT - talks with Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette. They talk about surviving the zombi apocalypse and other uses of a...
Culture of Truth: Duty to Prosperity from 2012-08-27T06:00
From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Duty to Prosperity.
Transcript posted to the Bobblespea...
Jo Paoletti Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-08-24T03:00
Pink and blue. Jay (@jayackroyd) talks with Jo Paoletti (@jbpaoletti) about the contributions of nature and nurture in gender identity formation.
An Assoc Prof in the American Studies De...
David Waldman and Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-08-20T03:00
Jay Ackroyd (@jayackroyd) discusses the past week of political and policy developments with David Waldman (@KagroX);
Origins and logic of voter supression, voter ID efforts, drawing upon mili...
Alan Boyle & Alan Stern Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-08-17T18:00
Recorded 8/15.
Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle (Science Editor NBCNews.com) talks with planetary scientist Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Eric Laursen Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-08-17T03:00
Jay and Eric Laursen discuss his book The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan.
An independent financial and political journalist, activist, and commenta...
Marcy Wheeler & Avedon Carol VIrtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-08-13T03:00
Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) and Avedon Carol (@Avedon_Says ) talk with @JayAckroyd about Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan on the GOP ticket. Featuring Culture of Truth's weekly commentary on t...
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Stirling Newberry&Fishgrease Virtually Speaking from 2012-08-10T01:00
Petroleum engineer Fishgrease (@fishboom) and economic theorist Stirling Newberry discuss Bill McKibben's Rolling Stone article - Global Warming's Terrifying New Math: Three simple numbers that a...
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Jay Rosen & Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-08-06T03:00
Part 1: Jay Rosen professor of Journalism at NYU (@jayrosen_nyu) and Stuart Zechman (@Stuart_Zechman), in a rerun of a discussion that took place on April 10, 2011.
Part 2; Stuart and Jay di...
Melissa Thomasson Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-08-03T03:00
Melissa Thomasson, Associate Professor of Economics and Jay Ackroyd discuss her work on the economic history of medical care and health insurance in the US.
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Alan Boyle & George Djorgovski Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-08-02T05:00
Is there a virtual Mars in our future? What have we learned about the utility of virtual worlds, specifically the Second Life platform?
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Joan McCarter & Dave Waldman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-07-30T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Joan McCarter & Dave Waldman exchange views, commenting on the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows and their own observations from the past week. Plus this weeks ...
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Dave Beaty & Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-07-28T06:00
Recorded 7/25/2012
Are we alone in the solar system? NBCNews.com Science Editor Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with JPL Chief Scientist, Mars Exploration Directorate Dave Beaty. They continue...
3 Activists & a Filmmaker: 5 Questions with Gaius Publius from 2012-07-28T02:00
Gaius Publius, political writer and Contributing Editor to AMERICAblog.com, went to Netroots Nation with five questions and a list of people. The result is a series of thought-provoking chats, post...
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Marcy Wheeler & Dave Johnson Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-07-23T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Marcy Wheeler and Dave Johnson exchange views, commenting on the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows and their own observations from the past week.
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Avedon Carol & David Dayen Virtually Speaking from 2012-07-13T03:00
Rerun from June 24, Avedon Carol and David Dayen discuss the likely and counter productive limiting of the Social Security system during the upcoming lame duck session; self-censorship of liberal ...
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Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-07-09T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter comment on the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows and their own observations from the past week. Plus this week's ridiculous moment ...
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Daniel Marans Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-07-06T03:00
Daniel Marans of Social Security Works and Jay Ackroyd discuss the latest salvo in the catfood commission wars, ginning up a generational conflict between those over 50 and those under 40. Follow ...
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Joan McCarter, Digby, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-07-02T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Joan McCarter (DailyKos) andDigby (Hullabaloo) SCOTUS the PPACA and Chris Hayes' Twilight of the Elites Plus this week's ridiculous moment from Culture of Truth.
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Tom Tomorrow, Cliff Schecter, Marcy Wheeler, Gaius Publius from 2012-06-30T00:00
Pre-recorded. No call-ins.
Gaius Publius, political writer and Contributing Editor to AMERICAblog.com, went to Netroots Nation with five questions and a list of people. The result is a series ...
Chris Hayes Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-06-29T03:00
Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) MSNBC host of the weekend talkshow Up With Chris Hayes (hashtag #uppers) joins Jay to talk about his new book, Twilight of the Elites
Seth Shostak & Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-06-28T05:00
Host Alan Bolye (Cosmic Log) talks with Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, and the 2004 winner of the Klumpke-Roberts Award awarded by the Astronomica...
Alan Grayson, Josh Orton, Alex Lawson with Gaius Publius from 2012-06-23T01:00
Gaius Publius, political writer and Contributing Editor to AMERICAblog.com, went to Netroots Nation with five questions and a list of people. The result is a series of thought provoking chats, post...
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Joan Slonczewski Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-06-22T03:00
Jay talks with Joan Slonczewski, Professor of Microbiology at Kenyon College and auther of The Highest Frontier, a hard science science fiction story involving genetic experimentation in a space h...
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Marcy Wheeler and David Waldman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-06-18T03:00
Marcy Wheeler, investigative journalist blogs at emptywheel.net and tweets as @emptywheel. David Waldman, known as KagroX, blogs at DailyKos and Congress Matters and tweets as @KagroX
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Chris Mooney, Tom Levenson: Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-06-14T05:00
Host Tom Levenson talks with Chris Mooney about why Republicans get so much about the world wrong...and what to do about it. A science and political journalist, blogger, podcaster, and experience...
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Paul Newell & Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-06-11T03:00
For this VS Sunday special, Stuart Zechman talks with Paul Newell: New York Democratic District Leader, grassroots community organizer and reformer. They'll talk about
Paul's history in pol...
Jay Rosen Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-06-08T03:00
Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU
Tom Levenson & Michael Mann Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-06-07T03:00
Recorded May 16, 2012
Host Tom Levenson (Inverse Square & Balloon Juice) talks with physicist and climatologist Michael E. Mann - currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn...
Spocko & Mike Stark Virtually Speaking from 2012-06-06T03:00
Spocko and Mike Stark discuss activism in a three areas this month. First: Activists at shareholder meetings, with guest activist Aaron Krager. Does it work, how can it be made better, how does the...
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Digby & Dave Johnson Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-06-04T03:00
Dave Johnson, a Fellow with Campaign for America's Future and a Senior Fellow with Renew California blogs at Seeing the Forest Follow @DCJohnson
DIgby writes primarily at Hullabaloo This w...
Lisa Epstein Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-06-01T03:00
Lisa Epstein Candidate for Clerk of Circuit Court, Palm Beach County. Lisa and Jay discuss mortgage foreclosure fraud, and the importance of progressives running in local elections. Follow ...
Sean Caroll & Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-05-31T02:00
Recorded 10/5/2011
MSNBC's Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at Caltech. Sean studies the theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, an...
Karen Tumulty & Teresa Kopec Virtually Speaking from 2012-05-30T03:00
Teresa Kopec and Karen Tumlty talk with Jay Ackroyd about media coverage of Elizabeth Warren, the MA campaign for US Senate, racial identity, the Romney campaign, voter fraud, Democrat support for ...
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Marcy Wheeler & JayAckroyd Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-05-28T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Marcy Wheeler & JayAckroyd exchange views, commenting on the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows and their own observations from the past week.
Alex Lawson Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-05-25T03:00
Alex Lawson is the Exec Director of Social Security Works, a DC organization dedicated to the preservation of the Social Security system. Jay and Alex discuss the basic structure of social securty...
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Tim Ferris & Tom Levenson Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-05-24T03:00
Recorded 12/21/2011
Filmmaker Tom Levenson - Prof of Science Writing at MIT and front pager at Balloon Juice - welcomes filmmaker and science writer Tim Ferris, best known for his books ...
Dave Johnson & Sara Robinson Virtually Speaking from 2012-05-23T03:00
Dave Johnson maps the forest with Sara Robinson, social futurist and the editor of AlterNet's Visions page.
They talk about the early days of blogging, her mission at Alternet, those popular ...
Gaius Publius Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-05-18T03:00
Gaius Publius is a Contributing Editor to AmericaBlog. He and Jay Ackroyd discuss 'Hugging the Monster"--facing up to the catastrophe that awaits civilization if immediate action isn't taken on cl...
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Vast Left & Avedon Carol Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-05-16T03:00
Avedon Carol and Vast Left talk about Left-side Obama criticism in the wake of his same-sex marriage statements; VastLeft's chance encounter with Elizabeth Warren, "Public-Private Partnerships...
Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2012-05-15T03:00
Stuart Zechman and Ja Ackroyd discuss the apparent problem of transition to oligarchy in the United States, and how movement liberals hurt our cause and our country when we replace our vigilance a...
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Avedon Carol & Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-05-14T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Avedon Carol and Jay Ackroyd discuss Jamie Dimon on Meet the Press and the mess in Europe, with the Greek, French and German elections turning against the austerians.
Andrew Gumbel & Allison Kilkenny Virtually Speaking from 2012-05-11T03:00
Andrew Gumbel is the co-author of Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters Michael Isikoff discusses the book at the Daily Beast
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Will Bunch and Susie Madrak Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-05-09T03:00
Will Bunch blogs at Attytude and writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He and Susie Madrak (Suburban Guerrilla & Crooks and Liars) talk about sports, the future of Occupy and developing news stori...
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Digby & Glenn Greenwald Virtually Speaking Sundays RERUN from 2012-05-07T03:00
Rerun of Glenn Greenwald and DIgby, January 2011, in which they focus on wikileaks and the erosion of civil liberties in the US.
Glenn Carle Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-05-04T03:00
Jay talks with Glenn Carle about the efficacy of secrecy.
The author of The Interrogator: An Education, Carle served twenty-three years in the Clandestine Services of the Central Intelligence ...
Paul Doherty & Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-05-03T05:30
Two of the biggest astronomical events of the year – May 20’s annular solar eclipse and June 5’s transit of Venus – are just around the corner. What’s the big deal, and how can you get in on the a...
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Spocko & Greg Basta Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-05-02T03:00
Spocko and Greg Basta of New York Communities for Change (Zombie Acorn). On the agenda: lessons learned by established non-profit activist groups while working with Occupy Wall Street;
some ...
Marcy Wheeler & Culture of Truth Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-04-30T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Marcy Wheeler & Culture of Truth discuss, first, the rolllout of the Presidential campaign season, with Warrior Obama set against Take the Gloves Off Romney. That is, dro...
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Ilya Sheyman Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackryod from 2012-04-27T03:00
Jay Ackroyd talks with Ilya Sheyman about his primary battle in Illinois' 10th Congressional district
Gary Taubes & Tom Levenson Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-04-26T05:30
Tom Levenson talks with American science writer GaryTaubes, about Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, released in December 2010. Taubes is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science: The S...
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Susie Madrak, Culture of Truth, Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-04-25T03:00
Susie Madrak and Culture of Truth consider the impact of current events on working and middle class people. Health care, working poor, emergency rooms and the economics of blogging.
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Cliff Schecter & Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-04-23T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Cliff Schecter & Jay Ackroyd exchange views, commenting on the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows and their own observations from the past week.
Glenn Carle Virtually Speaking w/Jay Ackroyd from 2012-04-20T03:00
Jay visits with Glenn Carle, 23 year veteran of the Clandestine Services of the Central Intelligence Agency and author of The Interrogator, an Education, in which Glenn tells the story of one of th...
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George Djorgovski, Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-04-19T03:00
Rerun. No calls. Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle and Space Studies Institute's Robin Snelson explore the often-volatile landscape of science, politics and policy.
This weekt: George Djorgovski: Profe...
Avedon Carol & Vast Left Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-04-18T03:00
Avedon Carol talks with Vast Left, who announces Grumble About Obama Day and discusses why "Third Way Centrist" is neither a useful nor accurate frame. Plus the latest from the Z Files. Follow @A...
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Joan McCarter and Digby Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-04-16T03:00
Joan is Senior Policy Editor at Daily Kos. Digby is, well, digby.
Kendra Pierre-Louis Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-04-13T03:00
Jay Ackroyd talks with Kendra Pierre-Louis about Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet
“If only we could buy our way (or recycle our way!) out of our environmental troubles....
Josh Holland, Dave Johnson: Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-04-11T03:00
Dave Johnson talks with Joshua Holland, editor and senior writer at AlterNet and author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy: And Everything else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes,...
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Kevin Gosztola Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-04-06T03:00
Jay Ackroyd talks with Kevin Gosztola, FDL’s Wikileaks expert and premiere blogger for all things Occupy. They discuss the context for understanding what is happening to Bradley Manning. Follow @kg...
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Yuri's Night with Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-04-05T05:00
Recorded earlier on April 4, 2012 -
Feeling down about spaceflight? Lift your spirits with Yuri's Night. MSNBS.com's Alan Boyle talks with Veronica Zabala-Aliberto, Dir of Marketing for Yuri's...
Joan McCarter & Culture of Truth: Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-04-02T03:00
Joan is Senior Policy Editor at DailyKos. Culture of Truth is the author of the weekly Bobblespeak Translations, where he tells us "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Sayin...
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Dave Johnson & Mike Elk: Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-03-28T03:00
Dave Johnson maps the forest with investigative journalist Mike Elk, who writes extensively about Labor for In These Times. They'll talk about reporting on Labor. Plus the latest Z Files segment fr...
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Gloria Feldt Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-03-27T03:00
Re-webcast from the prior week (no call-ins): Gloria Feldt, author of No Excuses, joins Jay Ackroyd to discuss contaception, power and the war on women heating up during the Republican presidentia...
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Culture of Truth & Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2012-03-23T05:00
Stuart Zechmanand Culture of Truth (in for Jay Ackroyd) in a continuing conversation from the perspective of liberalism in a centrist America.| Follow @Stuart_Zechman @Bobblespeak
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Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2012-03-20T02:00
Stuart reflects on a quote from a 'senior Democrat', American attitudes toward government, mistrust of concentrated power and Third Way Democratic opposition to the New Deal. Recorded earlier, no ...
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Susie Madrak & Marcy Wheeler Virtually Speaking Sunda from 2012-03-19T02:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Marcy and Susie comment on the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows and their own observations from the past week.
June Carbone Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-03-16T01:00
June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at University of Missouri Kansas City . Professor Carbone writes extensively about the legal issues surroun...
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Avedon Carol, Susie Madrak, Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-03-14T02:00
Susie Madrak goes on the record withAvedon Carol. Plus weekly commentary from Stuart Zechman’s Z File. Follow @avedon_says @susiemadrak @Stuart_Zechman
William K Black Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-03-13T02:00
Pre-Recorded. In an exceptional conversation Jay talks with William K. Black, white-collar criminologist, former financial regulator and author of “
Digby & Dave Dayen Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-03-12T02:00
From the VS Sundays media panel: digby and Dave Dayen (in for Joan McCarter ) compare their work of the past week to coverage from the corporate media’s Sunday morning talk shows. In a pre-recorde...
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David Beaty & Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-03-08T05:02
Who is John Carter and what have we learned about Mars in the past century? MSNBC’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks withJPL Chief Scientist, Mars Exploration Directorate Dave Beaty. VS Science is pr...
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Avedon Carol & Culture of Truth Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-03-05T03:00
From the VSS Media Panel: Avedon Carol and Culture of Truth discuss their own observations from the past week, compared to coverage from the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows. In a pre-r...
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Frances Causey, Don Goldmacher Virtually Speaking Jay Ackroy from 2012-03-02T02:00
Jay Ackroyd talks with filmmakers Frances Causey and Don Goldmacher about Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? the night before it opens at The Quad Cinema in NYC for a week long run, against the b...
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Natasha Chart, Dave Johnson Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-02-29T03:00
Dave Johnson talks with Natasha Chart, online campaign manager at SEIU. They plan to talk about labor's situation, driving organizing through technology and the attacks on women's rights. Plus The ...
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Marcy Wheeler and David Dayen: Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-02-26T19:00
Special Oscars edition .... Marcy Wheeler blogs as emptywheel, while David Dayen produces the Firedoglake news feed.
David and Marcy analyze the foreclosure fraud "settlement" (terms have sti...
Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2012-02-24T06:30
Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the GOP debates and corporate taxation
Lee Smolin Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-02-23T03:00
In a science rerun, cosmologist Lee Smolin discusses the nature of time, and questions the explanatory power of the multiverse hypothesis.
And he does it on the day that the super fast...
Avedon Carol & Lambert Strether Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-02-22T03:00
Author and activist Avedon Carol, who blogs at the SIdeshow and Lambert Strether, founder and editor of Correntewire, discuss political and policy developments of the week.... the hidden costs of ...
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Joan McCarter and Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-02-20T03:00
Daily Kos front page blogger Joan McCarter joins Stuart Zechman discuss wealthy individuals controlling political discourse.
Richard Kirsch Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-02-17T02:00
Richard is the author of Fighting For Our Health, a book recounting the process that led to the passage of the Healthy Patients and Affordable Care Act.
The first hour of the live broa...
Matt Strassler, Tom Levenson Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-02-15T23:00
Juggernaut and Behemoth: Dispatches from the frontiers of particle physics: MIT’s Tom Levenson (Inverse Square and Balloon Juice) talks with theoretical physicist Matt Strassler Follow @TomLevenso...
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Susie Madrak, Dave Dayen, Stuart Zechman VS Tuesdays from 2012-02-15T03:00
This week, Susie Madrak talks with Dave Dayen and Stuart Zechman about the mortgage settlement and breaking news. Plus Z File. Follow @SusieMadrak @DDayen @Stuart_Zechman
Digby and Corey Robin Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-02-13T03:00
DIgby and Corey Robin discuss Corey's book, The Reactionary Mind Follow @digby56 @coreyrobin
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June Carbone Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-02-10T02:00
June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at University of Missouri Kansas City .
Professor Carbone writes extensively about the legal issues su...
Spocko & Mike Stark Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-02-08T03:00
his week, Spocko and Mike Stark -- in the context of today’s media environment, effective activism, organizing strategies and the power of the 99% -- explore what we can learn from the SOPA fight ...
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Stirling Newberry Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-02-03T02:00
Stirling Newberry, Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss oil, auserity, the pre-history of agriculture, resource use, human nature and the long term prospects of America, and humanity, in an une...
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Shawn Otto & Alan Boyle: Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-02-02T03:00
How do the US presidential candidates view science and technology issues? Why might politically undeclared scientists join the GOP?
MSNBC’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with ScienceDebate.or...
Marcy Wheeler and Jay Ackroyd: Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-02-01T03:00
Marcy and Jay take the test, live, and discuss the contents of the recently released "How Thick is Your Bubble" quiz from AEI and Charles Murray.
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Digby & Stuart Zechman: Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-01-30T03:00
digbyandStuart Zechman discuss developments of the week, highlighting what’s been neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their work of the prior week and the wic...
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Olivier Knox Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-01-27T02:00
Back briefly from covering the presidential primary campaign, Olivier Knox (@OKnox) of the AFP updates us on the GOP and on Nibbles 6th birthday.
Alan Lightman & Tom Levenson Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-01-25T23:00
MIT's Tom Levenson - award winning documentary filmmaker, author and Director of the talks with Alan Lightman - novelist, essayist, theoretical physicist, and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at MI...
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Dave Johnson, Barry Kendall Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-01-25T03:00
Dave Johnson (Seeing the Forest, Campaign for America's Future) hosts Barry Kendall, recently returned from DC , having organized a second meeting with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. We'll ...
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Joan McCarter & Jay Ackroyd: Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-01-23T03:00
Joan McCarter – Senior Policy Editor for Daily Kos – joins Jay to discuss GOP insanity and Dem inability to exploit the insanity; SOPA, copyright and patent law; CoT's most ridiculous moment from t...
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Matt Stoller: Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-01-20T01:00
Former staffer to Congressman Alan Grayson, Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a contributing editor to the financial site Naked Capitalism. He also contributes to Politico, Al...
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Digby & Culture of Truth: Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-01-16T03:00
DIgby and CultureOfTruth discuss The Republican implosion, the desecration of Afghan soldiers killed in battle, Culture of Truth's commentary on David Gregory's pushing the both-sides-are-to -blame...
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Lenore Skenazy Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2012-01-13T02:00
Lenore Skenazy comes by to talk about Free Range Kids, popular culture, politics and family life. Follow @FreeRangeKids @JayAckroyd
Susie Madrak, Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-01-11T03:00
Susie discusses news of the week with vet and Occupy DC guy Mike Patterson and Stuart Zechman. Topics: #J17, Congress, Election 2012, Occupy Congress, being an undecided voter. Featuring episode 1...
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Cliff Schecter, Gotta Laff:Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2012-01-09T03:00
Cliff Schecter and Gotta Laff discuss developments of the week, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their work of the prior week and the w...
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Mac McClelland Virtualy Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2012-01-06T02:00
Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones, and Jay Ackroyd discuss her new book For Us Surrender is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma's Never-Ending War
Marc Abrahams and the Ig Nobels: Virtually Speaking Science from 2012-01-05T03:00
Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle talks with Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research,
"Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. Th...
Spocko and Mike Stark: Virtually Speaking Tuesdays from 2012-01-04T03:00
On the first Tuesday of every month, Spocko and Mike Stark talk about today’s media and political environment, effective activism, organizing strategies and the power of the 99%. Follow @spockosbr...
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Eve Gittelson Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2011-12-30T02:00
Eve Gittelson (aka nyceve) reviews the year in health care policy.
Digby, Stuart Zechman: VS Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-12-28T03:00
Digby and Stuart Zechman join recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak to explore the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people. Wide ranging 2 hr conversatio...
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Stuart Zechman Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2011-12-23T06:00
This week in liberalism. Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss Politifact's Lies of the Year--the partisan counter-claims of Republicans and Democrats over the last three years that they are each...
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Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd, CW Anderson, Stuart Zechm from 2011-12-23T02:00
CW Anderson, an ethnographer who studies the news, and how changes in technology, culture and economics are shaping journalism, will join us to discuss the concept of Hacking Journalism. You c...
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Avedon Carol and Susie Madrak Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-12-19T03:00
Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Avedon Carol ( http://sideshow.me.uk/ )and Susie Madrak ( http://susiemadrak.com/) discuss developments of ...
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Doug J Virtually Speaking w/Jay Ackroyd from 2011-12-16T02:00
Jay talks with Doug J of Balloon Juice about the crazee in the Republcan nomination process. Follow @JayAckroyd
Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak: Marcy Wheeler from 2011-12-14T03:00
Recovering journalist, class warrior, Suburban Guerrilla Susie Madrak discusses the week's events with Marcy Wheeler aka emptywheel. They start off with memories of Christmas Past (Baby Alive!), t...
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Dahlia Lithwick, Culture of Truth:Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-12-12T03:00
•Slate Sr Editor|Dahlia Lithwick and Culture of Truth discuss the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act (including Kagan, Scalia and Thomas recusals) and TX redistricting. Featuring Culture of ...
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Jay Ackroyd & Culture of Truth, Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2011-12-09T06:00
This week in liberalism. | Culture of Truth sitting in for Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd| In the continuing reflections on the Occupy movement, exploration of the role of Centrism in the Democrat...
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Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd: Spocko and Mike Stark from 2011-12-09T02:00
Jay discusses effective activism in today's media environment with activists Spocko and Mike Stark.
Robert Zubrin VS Science with Alan Boyle from 2011-12-08T03:00
MSNBC’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with Mars Society president, aerospace engineer and author, Bob Zubrin, best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars is the author of Merchan...
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Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-12-06T21:00
Jay Ackroyd in for recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak who explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people. Jay talks about Adam Smith, free marke...
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David Dayen, Stuart Zechman, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-12-05T03:00
David Dayen, Stuart Zechman discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts. Always informative, always passionate, frequen...
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Avedon Carol & Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2011-12-02T06:00
This week in liberalism. | Avedon Carol (in for Stuart Zechman) talks with Jay Ackroyd| about Newt Gingrich, celebrity, the jockeying for position among the Republican candidates for POTUS, centri...
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Corey Robin Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2011-12-02T02:00
Hr 2. Jaytalks with Corey Robin - associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center about Corey's newest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from...
Dave Waldman and Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking Susie from 2011-11-30T03:00
Dave Waldman aka kagroX steps in for Susie Madrak.
Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.
Marcy Wheeler, Dave Waldman Virtually Speaking Susie from 2011-11-23T03:00
Marcy Wheeler and Dave Waldman step in for Susie Madrak Follow @emptywheel @KagroX @Susie Madrak
Aaron Bady Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2011-11-18T02:00
Aaron Bady (zunguzungu) has been involved in the Occupy Oakland movement. He joins us to discuss recent developments, and also to place the Occupy movement into a socai socialogical context. His b...
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Seth Mnookin, Tom Levenson: Virtually Speaking Science from 2011-11-17T03:00
MIT's Tom Levenson -- Science documentary filmmaker and Director of MIT's Graduate program in writing and humanistic studies -- hosts VS Science on the third Wednesday of the month to discuss histo...
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Dave Johnson Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-11-16T03:00
Tonight's rebroadcast is an episode where Dave Johnson, of Seeing the Forest and Campaign for America's Future, talks about the Democratic leadership in Congress and the likely outcomes of the Sup...
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Avedon Carol, Sam Seder Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-11-14T03:00
Avedon Carol and Sam Seder discuss developments of the week, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their work of the prior week and the wick...
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Sandra Bérard, Cambodia READA w/ Peace Train's Steve Mahaley from 2011-11-13T00:00
Sandra Bérard talks with Steve about a small rural Cambodian community and the transformation underway through the efforts of the Rural Economic Development Agency (READA).
The READA team of 15...
Jay Ackroyd, Stuart Zechman, Virtually Speaking A to Z from 2011-11-11T06:00
Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd. Ongoing discussion centering on the nature, ideology and political realities of liberalism and conversely on the nature, ideology and political realities of Democra...
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Glenn Greenwald, Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2011-11-11T02:00
Jay talks with Glenn Greenwald about his new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some. Glenn blogs at salon.com. Follow @GGreenwald
Ted Rall Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-11-09T03:00
Recoveringjournalist, blogger and working class warriorSusie Madrak talks with political cartoonist and graphic novelist TedRallabout non-violence and its limitations as a revolutionary strategy....
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Digby & Cliff Schecter Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-11-07T03:00
Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues n...
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Stuart Zechman Jay Ackroyd Virtually Speaking A to Z from 2011-11-04T05:00
This week in liberalism. | Stuart Zechmanand Jay Ackroyd| In the continuing exploration of the role of Centrism in the Democratic party and for meaningful ways to express Movement liberalism as a ...
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Marc Millis Alan Boyle Virtually Speaking Science from 2011-11-03T02:00
Virtually Speaking Science | MSNBC's Alan Boyle (ed. Cosmic Log) talks with Marc Millis, of the Tau Zero Foundation and one of the big names in interstellar travel discussions. Marc worked for year...
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Dave Waldman Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-11-02T02:00
Dave Waldman, aka KagroX, a non-practicing attorney, former Capitol Hill aide and Hotline staff writer (back when Chuck Todd was an intern), David writes chiefly on Congressional procedure at Congr...
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Avedon Carol, David Dayen, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-10-31T02:00
Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues n...
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Les Leopold Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2011-10-28T02:00
Hr 1 - This week in Liberalism Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman
Hr 2- Jay visits with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, designs researc...
Will Bunch, Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-10-26T03:00
Former political operative and recovering journalist, blogger and working class warriorSusie Madrak chats with Will Bunch about his new Kindle book:October 1, 2011: The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge."...
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Marcy Wheeler Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-10-24T03:00
Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Marcy Wheeler andStuart Zechman talk about War (Libya), War (Iraq), and War (Iran). And bailouts: Marcy repo...
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Jeffrey Feldman Virtually Speaking w/Jay Ackroyd from 2011-10-21T02:00
Hr 1 -Virtually Speaking A-Z: This week in liberalism. Stuart Zechmanand Jay Ackroyd| continue the search for deeper understanding and meaningful expressions of Movement liberalism. Follow @Stuart...
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Naomi Oreskes, Tom Levenson: Virtually Speaking Science from 2011-10-20T03:00
MIT's Tom Levensonhosts VS Science on the third Wednesday of the month to discuss history of science, economics, and some climate science.
Science Historian Naomi Oreskes, author of "Me...
Chicago Dyke Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-10-19T03:00
Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.
Susie Madrak, Culture of Truth, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-10-17T03:00
Susie Madrak and Culture of Truth discuss developments of the week highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their work of the prior week and ...
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Allison Kilkenny & Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking w/JA from 2011-10-14T02:30
Stuart and Allison discuss Occupy Wall Street, and the media's coverage of the movement
Ali Savino Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-10-12T03:00
Recovering journalist, blogger and working class warriorSusie Madrak chats with organizer Ali Savino about #OccupyDC and #OccupyWallSt Ali has been on the ground in DC for the past 10 days. Follo...
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Marcy Wheeler, Julian Sanchez, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-10-10T03:00
Marcy Wheeler discuss developments of the week with Julian Sanchez, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their current work.
Julian ...
Matt Stoller Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking w/Jay Ackroyd from 2011-10-07T01:00
9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd | Jay talks with Matt Stoller about #occupywallst. An American political activist and writer, from 2009-2011, Matt served as Senior ...
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Sean Carroll, Alan Boyle VS Science from 2011-10-06T03:00
MSNBC's Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at Caltech. Sean studies the theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, learning about fundamen...
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Stuart Zechman, Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-10-05T03:00
Stuart Zechman joins recovering journalist, blogger and working class warriorSusie Madrak. They'll talk about what #OccupyWallStreet means for progressives.
Digby & Joan McCarter Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-10-03T03:00
digby & Joan McCarter discuss developments of the week, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their work of the prior week and the wickedly...
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Mike Stark Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2011-09-30T02:00
Hr 1 Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman in an ongoing discussion centering on the nature, ideology and political realities of liberalism and conversely on the nature, ideology and political realities o...
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Lee Smolin Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2011-09-23T02:00
9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd | Jay talks with cosmologist Lee Smolin about the nature of time. Best known for devising several different approaches to quantum gr...
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Ted Rall, VS Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-09-21T03:00
Journalist, blogger and working class warriorSusie Madraktalks with political cartoonist and autobiographical graphic novelist Ted Rall.
Culture of Truth, Stuart Zechman, Virtually Speaking Sundays from 2011-09-19T03:00
Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues n...
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Jay Ackroyd & Stuart Zechman Virtually Speaking A-Z from 2011-09-16T06:00
Ongoing discussion centering on the nature, ideology and political realities of liberalism and conversely on the nature, ideology and political realities of Democratic centrism. No call-ins: recor...
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Eve GittelsonStuart ZechmanVirtually Speaking w/Jay Ackroyd from 2011-09-16T02:00
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8 pm eastern | 5 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking A-Z | Stuart Zechmanand Jay Ackroyd| This week in liberalism: an ongoing discussion based on the conflict between movement liberals--libe...
Alex Lawson on Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-09-14T03:00
Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, steps in to discuss the truth and validity of Medicare and Social Security with Susie Madrak. http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/social-s...
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Rob Roper, Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd from 2011-09-10T06:00
Jay talks with Rob Roper about his Maine Republican roots and the party of, then, Senator Bill Cohen and Congresswoman Olympia Snowe, a very different party than the party of Paul LePage. Jay and ...
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Jeff Sharlet, Virtually Speaking w/ Jay Ackroyd from 2011-09-09T03:00
Jeff Sharlet, Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, the college’s first professor of creative nonfiction, and a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and Rolling Stone. Jeff' writ...
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Rand Simberg, Alan Boyle: Virtually Speaking Science from 2011-09-08T03:00
Alan Boyle talks with Rand Simberg As MSNBC.com's science editor, Alan runs a virtual curiosity shop of the physical sciences and space exploration, paleontology, archaeology and other ologies that...
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Russ Baker,Rob Roper,Virtually Speaking Susie w/Susie Madrak from 2011-09-07T03:00
Hr 1 - Recovering journalist Susie Madraktalks with Investigative journalist Russ Baker of WhoWhatWhy.com. Follow him and the team @whowhatwhy.
In his newest book, Family of Secrets - The Bush...