Background Briefing: November 28, 2024
What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times
We begin in this Thanksgiving with an attempt to find what we can be thankful for in these bleak times ahead of a regime of aggressive malevolence poised to assault American democracy, destroy government as we know it and turn our justice system into a tool of vengeance for a sick weak wannabe strongman man to round up what Trump calls the enemy within. Joining us is Richard Parker, who teaches economics and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He is a former managing editor of Ramparts, was a cofounder of Mother Jones magazine, and serves on the editorial board of The Nation. His books include, The Myth of the Middle Class and John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics.
How Women Can Resist and Fight Back Against a Regime of Hate and Misogyny
Then we look into how women can resist and fight back against a regime with a cabinet full of sexual predators and Fox News junkyard dogs yapping right wing talking points propelled by hatred and misogyny. Joining us is Moira Donegan, writer in residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in The London Review of Books, Bookforum and The Paris Review. She is the co-host of the podcast In Bed With The Right and a columnist at the Guardian where her latest article is “We must defend elective abortions, not just the most politically palatable cases.”