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America Trends Podcast

A podcast focusing on the social and political trends shaping our future.

  1. 10 HR AGO

    EP 809 Can We Bridge Our Profound Differences?

    How polarized are we, really?  While the extremes in both ideological camps may be smaller in numbers than mainstream opinions their effect on our political dialogue and the conveyor belt of lies and distortions on social media amplify and accelerate those differences.  Thus, it feels like we are in a pitched battle for the soul … Read More Read More

    32 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    EP 808 We Are Not Alone

    Longtime Defense researcher Luis Elizondo has become associated with reporting on the existence of UFOs(unidentified flying objects), now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena(UAPs).  He made headlines in 2017 when he resigned as a senior intelligence official running a Pentagon program investigating these objects in the sky and alerted the public to the fact that the … Read More Read More

    46 min

  3. 4 NOV

    EP 807 Are Grades Failing Our Children?

    What kind of question is that, you may ask?  We’ve always had grades.  How would we evaluate performance without them?  Is this just another ‘woke’ idea, like participation trophies for playing the game?  How will they learn to compete in this dog eat dog world awaiting our students?  Joshua Eyler, director of the Center for … Read More Read More

    36 min

  4. 30 OCT

    EP 806 Best Colleges Ranked in a Different Way

    While the rankings for U.S. News & World Report seem to get most of the attention, perhaps there’s another lens we should put on the ranking process.  Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of Washington Monthly, once worked there and sensed that there is a better scoring system to reflect the needs of more students across the country, … Read More Read More

    37 min

  5. 28 OCT

    EP 805 How Can One Man Be So Successful in Erasing the Recent Past?

    Listening to this podcast, you can discern that I am not a fan of Donald Trump.  His approach to ethics, decency, business practices and bruising politics is an anathema to me.  So, to the extent that I can keep up with his subterfuge, I attempt to do so.  I’ll admit that it is a … Read More Read More

    32 min

  6. 24 OCT

    EP 804 Fact Checking is a Necessity in Our Modern Political Era

    Why do politicians lie so often?  There must be a reason for it.  And why do we not demand better of them and ask the media to do a better job of holding them to account?  One could argue that, really, the incentive structure in politics rewards those who lie and the penalties are too … Read More Read More

    35 min

  7. 21 OCT

    EP 803 Are the Justice Department and FBI Free From Political Influence?

    Many presidents have attempted to influence the actions of the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI for political means.  I am old enough to remember the Saturday Night Massacre, as it was called, in Richard Nixon’s presidency during the Watergate scandal. And the FBI had its own political agenda on the remarkably long, and dubious, … Read More Read More

    35 min

  8. 17 OCT

    EP 802 Is America Becoming a Vigilante Nation?

    Usually we define vigilantes as the barbarians at the gate who want to disrupt the order of things.  What if the state itself becomes that disruptor bringing the chaos not protecting us from it?  Two law professors, Jon Michaels, of UCLA, and David Noll, of Rutgers University, make a compelling case in “Vigilante Nation: How … Read More Read More

    39 min

  9. 15 OCT

    EP 801 Do We Have a ‘Deep State’ or a Modern Administrative State?

    It’s never happened before where a presidential candidate promises to throw sand in the gears of a modern democracy in order to bend all levers of government to his will.  Sure, we have had much rumination about how slow or inert government agencies have become, or how there might be overreach on the part of … Read More Read More

    40 min

  10. 9 OCT

    EP 800 Business Lobbyists Have Dominated D.C. for Fifty Years: Now It All Makes Sense

    We have had nearly fifty years of wage stagnation, unaffordable health care, low social mobility, predatory mortgage practices, and inflamed class and race resentments.  That’s the same period in which business lobbyists have overwhelmed the scene in Washington, D.C. with smart, aggressive and targeted approaches to influencing Congressional action. And they have had their … Read More Read More

    34 min
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