Stories
From his early days interviewing national leaders on C-SPAN, Brian has spent four decades in conversation with artists, activists, public intellectuals, and everyday people on six continents.
Stories brings that work together: interviews, essays, travel writing, and book excerpts from Brian’s ongoing explorations of politics, culture, and history.
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Unlocked: What America’s Leading Fascism Scholar Says About Donald Trump
How Spain Shed its Fascist Past
Spain: Franco Kills the Republic
Before Patreon: Jack Conte & Nataly Dawn Backstage at Yoshi’s
Featured Series
Stop Stealing the Future: Chronicles of the Ukrainian Resistance
From the Archives
Jorge Fuentes, Congressman
WAR: The Afterparty
“The conditions of the time of Jacobo Árbenz are the same now. I understand that the North American government is the leader of the world. The world needs a leader. It’s a good leader. It has a philosophy of human rights. But the people in the CIA, the State Department, the embassies, their history is not good. ”
Computer scientist & internet entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle
Surmountable
“I think the ‘Eureka!’, the broader realization, was that the Internet is so important to us, not just as a cable TV replacement, it is the way that we live our lives. And those trying to seek control over the Internet ran into a strongly held belief that we have to keep this thing open, rather than letting it be shut down or controlled by large corporations and the government…