Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders waves as he marches with supporters in the Labor Day parade.(AP Photo / Jim Cole)
On this week’s podcast, Eric Foner on how Bernie should talk about socialism, Dave Zirin on parents and football, Ari Berman on the battle for the vote, and Julianne Hing on Republicans and refugees.
When Bernie Sanders talked about democratic socialism in his major speech at Georgetown University last week, he used FDR to explain what socialism could do for the country today. But Eric Foner says there’s a much deeper and richer history of socialism in America, and Sanders should call on that when making his pitch to the American people.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Also: Republicans want to block refugees from Syria and Iraq: The Nation’s Julianne Hing has an update on their efforts and what happens next.
Plus: Football has America’s biggest TV audience, but Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation, asks why anyone even plays football anymore, given what we know about head injuries.
And Ari Berman discusses the latest in the long history of the battle for voting rights—his new book is Give Us the Ballot.
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