The David Pakman Show

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The nationally syndicated progressive talk radio and television program hosted by David Pakman

\--On the Show: --Tara Isabella Burton, author of "Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World," joins David to discuss the replacement of organized religion with new kinds of spirituality in the modern world. Get the book: --The Supreme Court...
\--On the Show: --More advertisers flee Tucker Carlson's Fox News show as a result of his latest comments about the nationwide protests happening in the United States --Donald Trump and Republicans have decided to reinvigorate their anti-gay roots for...
\--On the Show: --Donald Trump will soon return to holding large campaign rallies, despite the risk of contracting coronavirus in large crowds remaining high --Caller discusses the disaster that was Georgia's recent primary election --Caller suggests...
\--On the Show: --The NRA and other gun rights groups have been absolutely silent during the protests rife with police brutality despite warning us for years that gun ownership is necessary to protect ourselves in the event that "jackbooted" law...
\--On the Show: --Adrian Bardon, Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and author of "The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion," joins David to discuss echo chambers, critical thinking, bias, and...
\--On the Show: --Niall Ferguson, historian and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose new PBS series Networld explores the history and science of networks, joins David to discuss coronavirus disinformation, lockdowns, media coverage, network...
\--On the Show: --Corporate media and Trump uncritically repeat admittedly false unemployment numbers, exactly as predicted by our segment two weeks ago on "garbage math" --Some on the left are missing the real story when ti comes to Mitt Romney, Colin...
\--On the Show: --Several NYPD officers have been caught on video beating a cyclist with batons as he tries to cross the street, while in North Carolina, cops are filmed destroying a medical station --Even if Donald Trump is defeated in November, he...
\--On the Show: --Roy Germano is an author, documentary filmmaker, and NYU professor who has posted some viral YouTube videos lately, including of him with members of the Hasidic community in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood --Donald Trump's...
\--On the Show: --CNN hosts the most shameful 2020 Democratic presidential debate so far, playing up the Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren "scandal" while asking terrible questions --Elizabeth Warren refuses to shake Bernie Sanders' hand after the 7th...
\--On the Show: --David Roberts, energy writer for Vox, joins David to discuss the crisis of epistemology and critical thinking in the United States --A smear of Bernie Sanders over allegedly sexist things he supposedly said to Elizabeth Warren goes...
\--On the Show: --Refuting the tired argument that Medicare-for-All and other single payer healthcare systems are bad because they will "kill jobs," and increasingly prominent talking point as such plans become more and more popular --Democratic...
\--On the Show: --Bernie Sanders' democratic socialism is absolutely not communism, and it is not even socialism, but rather social democracy, a form of capitalism --Major concern spreads through the audience regarding David's recent disheveled...
\--On the Show: --Martin Gurri, former CIA analyst and author of the book "The Revolt of the Public," joins David to discuss uprisings, activism, and much more. Get his book: https://amzn.to/35FSC2C --Donald Trump attacks Barack Obama in a strange,...
\--On the Show: --Iran attacks multiple US bases in Iraq in retaliation to Donald Trump's assassination of Iranian Quds leader Qassim Soleimani, and in the midst of figuring out whether this will escalate into full-scale war, Donald Trump tweets that...
\--On the Show: --Hedrick Smith, Executive Producer of "The Democracy Rebellion," joins David to discuss campaign finance reform, money in politics, voter suppression, and much more --The Pentagon and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper quickly state that...
\--On the Show: --Allies are abandoning the United States as Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged on Iran --Exploring the Trump administration's absolutely bogus justification for the assassination of Iranian leader Qassim Soleimani --Iran fully...
\--On the Show: --Donald Trump appears to be starting a war with Iran, ordering the unauthorized assassination of Iranian Kuds leader Qassim Soleimani --It appears that Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, knew in advance about the unauthorized...
\--On the Show: --In 2020, we need to fight normalization, including too many people who seem not to care that President Donald Trump is clearly mentally ill --The 2020 Presidential campaign may be uglier than any that we've seen in the past, and we...
CLASSIC EPISODE FROM NOVEMBER 4, 2019 --On the Show: --Jason Stanley, Professor at Yale University and author of "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them" and "How Propaganda Works," joins David to further our understanding of authoritarianism,...