Posts tagged Thought Leaders
One Virus, Two Americas

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We sit down with Ron Brownstein, senior editor at The Atlantic and senior political analyst for CNN to talk about how responses and attitudes towards the coronavirus differ along the same lines that divide the country politically. What does this divide mean for how this pandemic unfolds? How will it all play out politically, and what does it mean for November?

Brownstein is one of the nation’s top political journalists. He’s a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written six books, including The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America.

His analysis that America is in the midst of a battle between the Coalition of Transformation and the Coalition of Restoration is one of the most illuminating frameworks for understanding U.S. politics presented by any analyst.

REFERENCES:

Ron Brownstein - CNN Profile // The Atlantic // @RonBrownstein

The Atlantic // Ron Brownstein - Red and Blue America Aren’t Experiencing the Same Pandemic

Ron Brownstein - The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Jonathan Metzl - Dying of Whiteness

Frank Chin (Editor), Jeffery Paul Chan (Editor), Lawson Fusao Inada (Editor), Shawn Wong (Editor) - AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance

Homer // Translated by Robert Fitzgerald - The Odyssey

Manuel Pastore - USC

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"My Deepest Hope Is This Is An Inflection Point": A Conversation With Neera Tanden

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Neera Tanden, who has been called one of our nation’s most powerful women in politics by Fortune magazine, is the president of Center for American Progress, the nation’s largest progressive think tank.

She sheds light on the impeachment hearings and what Democrats and progressives need to keep in mind at this moment.

We also find out how Neera, an immigrant whose family was on food stamps when she was a child, arrived to where she is today. We also learn about her favorite childhood dish!

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How to Defeat a Racist: An Interview with Tim Wise

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In this Episode:

Tim Wise, one of the most prominent anti-racism writers and educators in the country, offers insight to what we can learn from his experience working on a campaign to defeat an actual former member of the KKK, David Duke, in the 1990s (during Duke’s run for U.S. Senate and the governor’s seat in Louisiana), and what that experience can teach us today as we work to oust Trump. 

Wise also weighs in on this current impeachment moment and the dynamics of patriotism versus white supremacy.

Earlier this year he wrote a Twitter thread about how Democrats fail to understand how to confront an opinion who openly fans the flames of racism. That thread was retweeted 21k times.

Wise is the host of the podcast Speak Out with Tim Wise. He is the author of more than seven books, including White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son.

Since 1995, Wise has delivered speeches at more than 600 college campuses across the nation. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers on addressing and dismantling racism.

We also find out what Tim wanted to be when he grew up when he was a kid, and how that inadvertently led to the work he does today!

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