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Ben talks about his  Jacobin review of Aaron Sorkin's "The Trial of the Chicago 7." Jeff Cohen talks about VoteTrumpOut. David Feldman comes by to explain that, despite being an "old lefty from way back," he wants Trump to serve a second term. Colette Shade makes her GTAA debut to talk about her New Republic article "Self-Help Hacks at the End of the World." Finally, rapper and activist Napoleon da Legend talks about his music career, mass incarceration, and his relationship with Michael Brooks.Jacobin Review of the Trial of the Chicago 7 - https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/the-trial-of-the-chicago-seven-aaron-sorkin-film-reviewVote Trump Out - https://votetrumpout.org/David Feldman - https://davidfeldmanshow.com/"Self-Help Hacks at the End of the World" - https://newrepublic.com/article/159819/self-help-hacks-end-worldNapoleon da Legend - https://www.napoleondalegend.com/

Samuel Moyn chats with Ben about why the judicial powers of the Supreme Court are an obstacle to social progress. We don't need to pack the Court. We need to find ways to disempower it.

Prager U gets the recent history of socialism very wrong. Ben is joined by Matt McManus to talk about the relationship between Marxism and philosophical liberalism and then by Matthew Sitman (and David Griscom) to talk about conservatism, country music, and why those are two very different subjects.Here's Matt McManus' latest article in Jacobin:https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/karl-marx-liberalism-rights-igor-shoikhedbrod-review...and Matthew Sitman's country music essay in Dissent:https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/e-pluribus-country

Ben is joined by Daniel Bessner and Djene Bajalan to break down the Azerbaijan/Armenia conflict. Djene's article in Jacobin:https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-nationalism-colonialism

Scottish libertarian Antony Sammeroff comes on the pod to debate libertarian and socialist ideas about healthcare. Ben talks to Krystal Ball about the Presidential election and why right-wing populism is a political dead end. Finally, Cole James Cash fills in for David Griscom's usual music segment to talk about his album "2016." This is a good episode, guys. You should give it a listen!

Ben is joined by Paul Prescod to talk about his Jacobin article "Trump Claims He's Pro-Worker. But His Labor Board Is Trying to Destroy Worker Organizing." (https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/trump-national-labor-relations-board-nlrb) Then Daniel Bessner, Shawn Gude, and returning champion Harvey J. Kaye join the podcast for a panel on Eugene V. Debs and the what the socialist left can learn from its early history. At the end David Griscom comes back for another installment of "Outlaws and Revolutionaries" where he and Ben talk about mezcal and the music of Guy Clark.

Ben is joined by Woke Bros co-host Wosney "Big Wos" Lambrey and Congressional candidate Shahid Buttar. Judith Jarvis Thomson's classic paper "A Defense of Abortion" is revisited in the context of Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. A deeply strange story about Keith Richards is mentioned in passing while Ben discusses Terry Allen with David Griscom during this week's installment of David's weekly "Outlaws & Revolutionaries" segment.Woke Bros: https://blackopinionsmatter.libsyn.com/Shahid Buttar: shahidforchange.usJudith Jarvis Thomson: https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil215/Thomson.pdfIndependent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get early access to every episode as well as a weekly bonus episode and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats.Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgisLike, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAAVisit benburgis.com

Ben is joined by David Feldman and Emma Vigeland to talk about the election and by Nando Vila to talk about US imperialism in Latin America. In this week's installment of "Outlaws & Revolutionaries," David Griscom talks about the great Blaze Foley. The episode ends with some chat questions about the relationship between socialism and Irish Republicanism, Ben's Michigan State University "Beat Michigan" shirt, and the struggle ahead for the American left.Vice Article: "5 Black Men Kidnapped by 'Police' in Honduras Are Still Missing" by Jared Olsonhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gjp3/5-black-men-kidnapped-by-police-in-honduras-are-still-missing

Ben is joined by authors Christopher Patton, Thomas Frank, and Fredrik de Boer to talk about their books and by David Griscom for another segment of Outlaws & Revolutionaries. Links to the books and to some of the songs mentioned by Griscom below.Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get early access to every episode as well as a weekly bonus episode and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats.Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgisLike, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAAVisit benburgis.comPre-order "The Iowa City Police Log: Life and Strife in a Midwestern College Town" by Christopher Patton:https://littlevillagemag.com/product/pre-order-iowa-city-police-log-life-and-strife-in-a-midwestern-college-town/Order "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism" by Thomas Frank from the worker-owned bookstore Red Emmas:https://redemmas.org/titles/34835-the-people--no--a-brief-history-of-anti-populismOrder "The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice" by Fredrik de Boer from the worker-owned bookstore Red Emmas:https://redemmas.org/titles/34836-the-cult-of-smart--how-our-broken-education-system-perpetuates-social-injustice

After an examination of why Ed Markey is absolutely right to talk about "what your country can do for you," Ben is joined by Nathan J. Robinson to talk about an article they co-wrote about Glenn Beck for the new issue of Current Affairs, Yaron Brook debates Ben about the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and David Griscom comes back to drink tequila and talk about the politics of country music.