Princeton Professor and Author, Melissa Harris-Lacewell On Race, Religion, and Obama

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Melissa Harris-​Lacewell is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, (Princeton 2004). And she is currently at work on a new book: Sister Citizen: A Text For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn’t Enough. 

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What the Watchmen Can Teach Democrats

Allison and Jamie discuss how the new film, Watchmen, can teach Democrats to grow spines.

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Part 2 of Drunken Politics interview with Johann Hari!

Glorious topics of conversation include:

** Mother “I Lied About Everything” Theresa
** Coca-Cola
** PIRATES
** Homophobia
** Super AIDS

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Drunken Politics with Journalist Johann Hari

Johann Hari

Part 1 can be heard here.

A big, warm welcome to Johann Hari, our very first guest with a fatwa on his head!

Allison and Jamie return from their trip to the UK!  First up is the Unfunny But Totally Real Headlines: learn about the world, while sitting on your ass, and feel like you’re actually doing something. It’s only two minutes, so hang in there, and you can sound smart to your apathetic, hipster, douche bag friends.  

Jamie barely represses his rage at the state of the American comedy industry, and Allison and Jamie discuss Obama’s sketchy policy decisions. 

Join Drunken Politics for part one of their interview with journalist Johann Hari, their very first guest with a fatwa on his head. Visit JohannHari.com to read Johann’s amazing articles.

Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the Independent, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, and the Huffington Post.

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In 2008, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Orwell Prize, which the Observer newspaper calls “Britain’s pre-eminent award for political writing”. In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International for his reporting on the war in Congo. The judges called his reports ‘outstanding’, ‘beautifully written’ and ‘brave’.   

‘Prince’ Turki Al-Faisal, the Saudi Ambassador to Britain, has accused Johann of “waging a private jihad against the House of Saud”. (He’s right). Johann has been called ‘Maoist’ by Nick Cohen, “Stalinist” by Noam Chomsky, ‘Horrible Hari’ by Niall Ferguson, “an uppity little queer” by Bruce Anderson, ‘a drug addict’ by George Galloway and “fat” by the Dalai Lama

Part two of the interview next Wednesday on BTR!

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Drunken Politics: Final Show in the UK with The Thermals!

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Drunken Politics sits down with the indie rock band, The Thermals. The band weaves a political message into their lyrics, and is famous for turning down a $50,000 offer from Hummer to include one of their songs in a commercial.

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Hutch Harris (vocals and guitar), Kathy Foster (bass), and Westin Glass (drums).

Drunken Politics Talks With Irish Comic/Lawyer, Keith Farnan, About the Death Penalty

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Keith Farnan

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Drunken Politics: the FINAL “fuck you!” to former President Bush

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Drunken Politics says their final “fuck-you!” to former President Bush and discuss shiny, brand new President Obama.

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Part 2 of Drunken Politics’ Interview with Palestinian Poet and Activist, Remi Kanazi

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We highly recommend you pick up a copy of Remi’s excellent book, Poets For Palestine. It includes wonderful poetry and Palestinian art. Proceeds go to charity. 

Born in Western Massachusetts, Remi Kanazi is a Palestinian American poet and writer living in New York City. Much of his writing and poetry focuses on Palestinian life and politics. Remi is the co-founder and primary writer for the political website www.PoeticInjustice.net.

Remi spoke with Drunken Politics about the situation in Gaza. He’s smart AND funny…wow!

Listen to Part 1 of the interview here!

Drunken Politics Upcoming Guests

Join Drunken Politics every Wednesday and marvel at our amazing guests!

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Upcoming guests include:

~ Glenn Greenwald: Salon.com, New York Times bestselling author

~ Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Princeton professor and award-winning author

~ Andrew Bacevich: Professor of international relations at Boston University and author of several books

~ Noam Chomsky: Professor, author, scholar, and dissident

~ Dennis Kucinich: Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008

~ Joseph Stiglitz: The most cited economist in the world, as of June 2008.

~ Jack Dishel: From the band The Moldy Peaches. Now touring as Only Son.

~ The Thermals: You’ll recognize this awesome punk band from the opening and closing of Drunken Politics.

~ The Yes Men: Culture-jamming activists

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