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The United States is not a democracy. We need a democratic constitution! A media wing of the Democratic Constitution Blog.
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- Ep. 91: Kate Masur on Washington D.C. and Civil Rights Struggles in the 19th Century · 48 minAuthor and scholar Kate Masur joins the podcast to talk about the struggles for equality during the Antebellum and Reconstruction periods. Our conversation focuses on two of…
- Ep. 90: Ajamu Baraka on the Green Party, Proportional Representation, and the Black Radical Tradition · 47 minIn this episode, we talk with Ajamu Baraka, an author, educator, and political activist. Topics include the Green Party and the two-party duopoly; proportional representation and…
- Where We've Been and Where We're Going (Ft. John Mulkins) · 40 minIn this episode, John Mulkins and I put our heads together and discuss how people understand the demand for a democratic constitution, who will get involved in the struggle, the…
- Ep. 89: Julie Suk on Alternatives to the Supreme Court’s Dominance · 54 minProfessor Julie Suk joins the show to discuss the Supreme Court’s immense power, the challenges of invoking Article V, the general constraints on necessary change posed by the…
- Ep. 88: Jeremy Popkin on the French Revolution and the Long Road to Emancipation · 44 min“No legislative assembly ever debated constitutional issues more thoroughly and more loudly and more angrily than the French National Assembly of 1789 to 1791. Imagine a group of…
- Ep. 87: Geoffrey Robertson on the Levellers, Democracy, and the English Civil War · 36 min“The poorest he that is in England hath a right to live as the greatest he” - Col. Thomas Rainborowe, Leveller. In this episode, I speak with Geoffrey Robertson, an English…
- Audio Article: The Senate Is Begging to Be Abolished · 11 minThe hubbub surrounding McConnell, Platner, and Graham stems from the undemocratic Senate, argues Steven Raney. In a democratic political system, McConnell and Graham would be…
- Ep. 86: John Mulkins on Building the Movement for a New Constitution · 46 min“We don’t need two legislatures to enact a piece of legislation. You want to have representation? Create an assembly of people who can faithfully represent the people and let…
- Ep. 85: Gil Schaeffer on DSA's New Program and the Bills Coming Due · 44 min“The bourgeoisie has fought democracy for the last 230 years, because democracy would be the transfer of power into the hands of the majority. And the explanation of why all of…
- Ep. 84: Zach Lewis and Elliot Lewis on a Democratization Program for the American Left · 34 min“The lack of democracy in this country and the broader problems with capitalism and the rise of Trumpism were all tied together. I think it’s hard to understand why so much of…
- Ep. 83: Robert Levine on Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Impeachment of a President · 54 min“The whole issue of Reconstruction for Douglass… the whole idea of being able to vote was huge. So what if you’re a black person able to vote, but your vote is now so diluted…
- Ep. 82: Tad Stoermer on the Resistance History of the United States · 1 h 28 min“I think the Constitution is fatally flawed. And I think that the kind of reconstruction that’s required needs to get back to the kind of things that the radical Republicans…
- 250 Years Without Democracy: The Significance of the Declaration of Independence · 35 minThis year is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and its proclamation that all men are created equal; that they have unalienable rights to life, liberty, and…
- Audio Article: What Would it Mean to Finish Reconstruction? · 12 min"What Would it Mean to Finish Reconstruction?" By Luke Pickrell. Original article here.
- Ep 81: Dylan Penningroth on the Hidden History of Black Civil Rights · 1 h 20 min“If we want to understand Black people’s demands for the rights that America denied them, we must pay more attention to how they talked about and used the rights that were not…
- Ep. 80: Guy Aitchison on Popular Resistance and the Idea of Rights · 49 min“There’s a tradition of these rights being claimed by groups who were excluded and who they weren’t originally intended for, because they have that possibility inherent to them…
- Ep. 79: Clyde Barrow on the Life and Times of Charles A. Beard · 54 min“Beard resigned and wrote a very scathing letter of resignation, which is still read today. But he was such a beloved figure at Columbia, he actually provoked several days of…
- Ep. 78: Richard Wolff on Marxism, Trump, and Political and Economic Democracy · 1 h 31 min“The argument about the absence of democracy is powerful in one way at the workplace. But it is also powerful in another way, in the general community, where it ought to be…
- DSA Presentation: Reconstruction and Radical Republicanism · 39 minThis is the recording of my presentation to East Bay DSA about Reconstruction and Radical Republicanism. Apologies for the rough audio quality.
- Audio Article: The Voting Rights Rollback Shows We Need a New Constitution · 11 min"The Voting Rights Rollback Shows We Need a New Constitution." Originally published on Jacobin on May 6, 2026.
