A C Grayling, Professor of Philosophy and Master of New College of the Humanities, London, joins David to discuss humanism, religion, secularism and more. . .
INTERVIEW: “AC Grayling: Morality Without Religion” / David Pakman ☮
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
PLANNED PARENTHOOD: “Planned Parenthood Investigation Leads to Indictment of Anti-Abortion Activists” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION COMPLEX: “A Challenge for Christians” ☮
NATURE: “These Crazy Cute Baby Turtles Want Their Lake Back / Deep Look ☮
Turtles grow up without parents, which might sound lonely. But for threatened baby turtles raised in a zoo it’s an advantage: they can learn to catch crickets all by themselves. There’s a paradox, though. When they are ready to leave the nursery, there is little wilderness where they can make a home.
INTERVIEW: “The Death of the American City” / Days of Revolt / Chris Hedges, Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell, and Roshaun Harris ☮
In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges speaks with two esteemed labor activists from Detroit: Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell and Roshaun Harris. They speak of the desperation caused by industrial decline and deregulation in Detroit, especially among Black people. The three also attest to the necessity and inevitability of revolt under such conditions.
INTELLECTUALISM: “Noam Chomsky Says GOP is ‘Literally a Serious Danger to Human Survival’” / The Huffington Post / Matt Ferner ☮
Noam Chomsky, the noted radical and MIT professor emeritus, said the Republican Party has become so extreme in its rhetoric and policies that it poses a “serious danger to human survival.”
“Today, the Republican Party has drifted off the rails,” Chomsky, a frequent critic of both parties, said in an interview Monday with The Huffington Post. “It’s become what the respected conservative political analysts Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein call ‘a radical insurgency’ that has pretty much abandoned parliamentary politics.”
Chomsky cited a 2013 article by Mann and Ornstein published in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, analyzing the polarization of the parties. The authors write that the GOP has become “ideologically extreme, scornful of facts and compromise, and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION – CATHOLICISM: “Catholicism and Sex” / John Waters ☮
Always Question Authority 