Scheer Intelligence

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Sinopsis

Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with "American Originals" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.

Episodios

  • Outgrowing Men: Jane Fonda’s Rebuke of Male Hegemony in Life and Politics

    21/09/2018 Duración: 27min

    Film veteran Susan Lacy discusses her latest documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts. Lacy stresses that celebrated actress and political activist Fonda has been shaped by four “acts —the four men in her life—her father and actor Henry Fonda, and husbands, film director Roger Vadim, political activist Tom Hayden and media mogul Ted Turner. The last act is Fonda’s alone, on her lifelong journey to personal liberation.

  • Silicon billionaires are the lethal monkey on the back of the American public

    14/09/2018 Duración: 32min

    Author Anand Giridharadas discusses the distorted libertarian ideology that they use to subvert the American experiment in democracy. They have done so by denying the legitimacy of government intervention into the economy on the side of fairness and justice, including decent working conditions, fair wages, regulation of the economy, and the right to form unions to represent them and fight for their interests. 

  • Bill Clinton Enabled Trumps Immigration Policy

    07/09/2018 Duración: 30min

    Helen Sklar, immigration attorney for more than 33 years, discusses the basis of the immigration family separation under Trump and how former President Clinton laid the groundwork for this.

  • American Middle Class: The Rise of the Precariat

    31/08/2018 Duración: 29min

    Alissa Quart discusses her latest book, Squeezed, on living in a middle-class that is being crumpled by meritocracy and converted into what Quart terms the “Precariat,” which Scheer describes as “people who think they’re in the middle class, and they have the education, very often they find themselves living paycheck to paycheck.”

  • ReKognition: The Face Of Surveillance, Useful or Dangerous?

    24/08/2018 Duración: 28min

    Jacob Snow discusses Amazon’s Rekognition program, which is being promoted for use at the state and federal level to use facial recognition to fight crime. 

  • Zeiad Abbas: 'God is not a real estate agent'

    17/08/2018 Duración: 32min

    Journalist and filmmaker Zeiad Abbas, a Palestinian refugee, describes living conditions of Palestinians under the state of Israel, which he calls “ethnic cleansing,” and discusses a toxic water crisis in Gaza and more.

  • The Rise and Fall of Women Moviemakers in Hollywood

    10/08/2018 Duración: 28min

    Hollywood historian, film critic and writer Carrie Rickey discusses the lack of women behind the cameras in Hollywood; it wasn’t always so.

  • Generation Wealth: The Loss of the Self

    03/08/2018 Duración: 29min

    A deep look at how the accumulation of money has become the greatest goal, even at the peril of the self.

  • Nick Goldberg: Veteran Journalist and Editor

    27/07/2018 Duración: 30min

    Nick Goldberg, the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, discusses print journalism, its financing, and the challenges it faces.

  • Seymour Hersh: Reporter

    20/07/2018 Duración: 36min

    The Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist assesses his career reporting on some of most significant stories of the past 50 years.

  • Howard Bryant: The Heritage

    13/07/2018 Duración: 33min

    The sports journalist discusses his new book on the conflicted progress of black athletes.

  • Kimberley Reed and John S. Adams: Dark Money

    06/07/2018 Duración: 33min

    The documentary director and Montana journalist discuss their film about how so-called dark money entered politics in the big sky state.

  • Nomi Prins: Collusion

    29/06/2018 Duración: 32min

    The former Wall Street banker turned journalist and author returns to Scheer Intelligence to critique the actions of international central banks.

  • Jennifer Rothman: The Right of Publicity

    22/06/2018 Duración: 32min

    The Loyola Law professor discusses her new book about the history and evolution of the right of publicity.

  • Eon McLeary and Manuel Ruiz: The Work

    15/06/2018 Duración: 29min

    The documentary filmmaker and a former prisoner discuss the film about a group therapy program in one of the most infamous prisons in the United States.

  • Nate Cardozo: A Golden Age of Surveillance

    08/06/2018 Duración: 31min

    The attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses the fight for privacy online.

  • Sara Driver: 'Boom for Real'

    31/05/2018 Duración: 32min

    The independent film director discusses her documentary about the early career of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

  • Wim Wenders: A Man of His Word

    25/05/2018 Duración: 30min

    The Oscar nominated director discusses his documentary about the current pope.

  • Adam Winkler: We The Corporations

    18/05/2018 Duración: 33min

    The UCLA Law professor discusses his newest book about the rights of corporations.

  • Sasha Abramsky: Jumping at Shadows

    11/05/2018 Duración: 32min

    The journalist and professor discusses his latest book about how fear has contributed to demagoguery.

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