『Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)』のカバーアート

Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)

Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)

著者： Flux Community Media
無料で聴く

Flux is a progressive podcast platform, with daily content from shows like Theory of Change, The Electorette, and Embrace The Void.Flux Community Media and its partners マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ 政治・政府 政治学 経済学
エピソード
  • How corporations took over the federal courts

    How corporations took over the federal courts
    2026/07/22
    Opposition to vaccines in the United States and around the world was a fringe view for a very long time, but it’s not anymore now, thanks to people like Donald Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. While this type of thinking has proliferated in the age of social media, in fact, being anti-vax is as old as the vaccines themselves. It’s a history worth exploring and knowing about, not just so that you can have better arguments for why vaccines work, but also so that you can understand that the arguments against inoculations are basically unchanged since the early 18th century when they became commonplace in the West.Thomas Levenson, my guest in today’s episode, has written a very fascinating history of vaccines called A Pox on Fools, that is the focus of our discussion today. He’s a professor of science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He’s also the author of several other books, including Einstein in Berlin and Newton and the Counterfeiter.If you’re interested in supporting Theory of Change, we are doing a fundraising drive for the show and for Flux on GoFundMe. I’d really appreciate your support. You can also become a paid supporter on Patreon or on Substack. Thank you so much for your help. I cannot do this work without you.The video of this conversation is available. Access the episode page to get the full transcript. You can subscribe to Theory of Change and other Flux podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, YouTube, Patreon, Substack, and elsewhere.Protecting and supporting democracy is a team effort! We need your help to keep going. Please support my work with a paid or free subscription!Audio Chapters00:00 — Introduction07:01 — Inoculation is a ‘newfangled’ idea that is three centuries old13:16 — Vaccine opposition as a form of eugenics19:10 — Cotton Mather’s Christian argument for inoculation25:14 — Vaccines are a political technology, because they cannot work without it33:26 — Nazi ‘Deutsche Physik’ and Russian Lysenkoism39:30 — How the pro-science consensus was built in the postwar U.S.53:31 — Business leaders uniformly agreed on the necessity of science as a civic cultureRelated Content—Why science and democracy need each other—Robert Kennedy’s MAHA cult is making America sicker—How the sex and drugs counterculture fell in love with Donald Trump and Jesus—Study: Disinformation belief is more about defying societal norms than preferring incorrect views—RFK Junior and the naturalistic fallacy at the heart of the pseudo-scientific medical industry—How Republicans are making the internet a safe space for misinformation—Uncertainty makes science powerful — and incredibly vulnerableAbout the ShowTheory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield about larger trends and intersections of politics, religion, media, and technology. It's part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet.Theory of Change on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheoryChangeMatthew Sheffield on Social MediaMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffieldTwitter: https://twitter.com/mattsheffieldBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/matthew.flux.community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit plus.flux.community/subscribe
    続きを読む 一部表示
    1 時間 3 分
  • Liberals want Trump gone, but what do they want instead?

    Liberals want Trump gone, but what do they want instead?
    2026/07/14
    As November draws nearer, Democrats’ electoral prospects are looking very similar to how they were in 2018 before the party swept to victory in many congressional and statewide seats. 2028 is much further away, of course, but there is a very real possibility that Democrats could gain trifecta control of the presidency, Senate, and House.If the recent past is any indicator though, in just two years’ time, voters will swing wildly in the opposite direction, handing control back to Republicans. American voters (and elsewhere) are clearly very dissatisfied with what political parties are offering them, but thus far, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have taken the message.Public opinion surveys keep indicating that people want major societal reforms, including one from last September which found that 77 percent of American adults wanted major political changes, that included 24 percent saying they wanted “complete reform.”Democrats are disadvantaged by the current political system, so it’s in both their ideological and electoral interest to change things.But what would major changes look like? That is the project that Adam Gurri, my guest on today’s program. He’s the publisher of Liberal Currents, an online magazine has just put out a new book on this very topic. It’s an anthology of policy proposals and system reforms called The Reconstruction Papers, that is in a lot of ways similar to the Mandate for Leadership a book that’s more informally known as Project 2025, the collection of policy proposals that has become the centerpiece of the second Trump administration’s agenda.The Reconstruction Papers has a lot of great and interesting ideas, and we get into several of them, but today’s discussion also focuses on the larger question of what liberalism is or should be, which as you might imagine, the publisher of Liberal Currents has thought about quite a bit.If you’re interested in supporting Theory of Change, we are doing a fundraising drive for the show and for Flux on GoFundMe. The video of this conversation is available. Access the episode page to get the full transcript. You can subscribe to Theory of Change and other Flux podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, YouTube, Patreon, Substack, and elsewhere.Audio Chapters00:00 — Introduction07:45 — Defining liberalism11:21 — A liberal version of Project 2025?16:22 — Liberalism must be able to take its own side17:42 — Fixing federalism26:19 — The importance of more than two parties31:17 — Reforming the Senate and adding more states40:01 — The vital importance of judicial reform to protect democracy47:10 — Restraining the president52:14 — Reforming higher education and promoting national service59:22 — The importance of public mixing institutions01:03:34 — Reclaiming national greatness from the far right01:06:38 — Housing needs to be cheaper and more plentifulRelated Content— As Republicans have radicalized, Democrats have become more passive—and less successful electorally— The economy has collapsed for the middle class, Democrats must admit this and act accordingly— Anglo-American liberal elites have lost the ability to argue for their own principles— Democrats get lots of bad advice, particularly the idea that most voters are ideological— As Trump’s popularity has declined, Democrats’ polls are up, but not their brand-name, why?— Keir Starmer is a cautionary tale for politicians who only want to play it safeAbout the ShowTheory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield about larger trends and intersections of politics, religion, media, and technology. It's part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet.Theory of Change on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheoryChangeMatthew Sheffield on Social MediaMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffieldTwitter: https://twitter.com/mattsheffieldBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/matthew.flux.community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit plus.flux.community/subscribe
    続きを読む 一部表示
    1 時間 17 分
  • How Jeffrey Epstein did it

    How Jeffrey Epstein did it
    2026/07/07
    The life and crimes of Jeffrey Epstein were so complex that 5 years after his death, there is much about him that remains yet unknown. The system of sexual violence and exploitation that he devised is as infamous as it is uncovered. The financial structures he set up for himself were so complex that it takes hours to list them all, and his political and business connections were so vast and mysterious that to describe them in detail makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist.But knowing and sharing the Epstein details is important because the late billionaire was part of a larger class of business oligarchs who have teamed up with each other against democracy, in the United States and around the world. Greg Olear, my guest for this episode, knows a lot about all of this. He has written the book on it, in fact, and it’s out now under the title, “Another Wonderful Secret,” which is a reference to a birthday greeting that Donald Trump sent to Epstein that has since become infamous. Greg is also the host of two podcasts, “Prevail” and “The Five 8.”If you’re interested in supporting Theory of Change, we are doing a fundraising drive for the show and for Flux on GoFundMe. I’d really appreciate your support. You can also become a paid supporter on Patreon or on Substack. Thank you so much for your help. I cannot do this work without you.The video of this conversation is available. Access the episode page to get the full transcript. You can subscribe to Theory of Change and other Flux podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, YouTube, Patreon, Substack, and elsewhere.Audio Chapters00:00 — Introduction07:46 — Epstein’s early years as a teacher and then money manager14:41 — Epstein and Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell21:02 — Epstein’s decades of close friendship with Donald Trump24:51 — Sexual harassment and abuse as social networking for the Epstein Class30:46 — Epstein’s temporary fallout with Trump and 2016 reconciliation via Steve Bannon35:30 — After his prison release, Epstein became much more reactionary38:16 — The mystery surrounding Epstein’s death40:36 — Joe Biden and Merrick Garland failed to expose the truth about Epstein’s crimes46:28 — ConclusionRelated Content—Jeffrey Epstein became the hero of creepy right-wing men before he died—Newly released documents show that Jeffrey Epstein was obsessed with blocking women scientists—Covered-up abuse in far-right Christian churches and the origins of Pizzagate and QAnon—Jeffrey Epstein and the crisis of elite impunity—Secular post-libertarianism and the Epstein class—Science fiction and the reactionary mindSupport Democracy TodayIf you’re interested in supporting Theory of Change, we are doing a fundraising drive for the show and for Flux on GoFundMe. I’d really appreciate your support. You can also become a paid supporter on Patreon or on Substack. Thank you so much for your help. About the ShowTheory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield about larger trends and intersections of politics, religion, media, and technology. It's part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet.Theory of Change on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheoryChangeMatthew Sheffield on Social MediaMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffieldTwitter: https://twitter.com/mattsheffieldBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/matthew.flux.community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit plus.flux.community/subscribe
    続きを読む 一部表示
    58 分
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません