
Scheer Intelligence
Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with "American Originals" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.
Latest episodes

Aug 13, 2021 • 57min
Prisons are an enabler of America’s obscene wealth
Prisoner-turned-journalist Eddie Conway talks about how the immorally cheap labor of those caught in the prison industrial complex is the shame of the U.S. economy.

Aug 6, 2021 • 38min
Christianity is the linchpin in America’s war machine
Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, a professor of religious studies, examines how Christian rhetoric is used to justify endless wars and the “moral injury” they inflict.

Jul 30, 2021 • 51min
The West is keeping the COVID-19 pandemic from ending
Activist Achal Prabhala speaks to Robert Scheer about the wealthy countries’ reluctance to end global vaccine apartheid.

Jul 23, 2021 • 33min
The man who exposed Pegasus long before mainstream media
Journalist Richard Silverstein has been sounding the alarm bells about the private surveillance spyware sold by Israel’s NSO for years.

Jul 16, 2021 • 42min
Something’s rotten in the science of food
Marion Nestle’s book “Unsavory Truths” contains shocking revelations about how the science that influences what we eat is corrupted by corporate interests.

Jul 2, 2021 • 43min
Julian Assange’s father and brother on the public and personal urgency of his case
John and Gabriel Shipton talk to Robert Scheer about the WikiLeaks founder’s grueling struggle to be freed from a London prison as the Biden administration demands his extradition.

Jun 25, 2021 • 40min
What has Silicon Valley done to our food?
In a new book, journalist Larissa Zimberoff examines how companies have changed the way we eat in the name of climate change without always considering their products’ health impacts.

Jun 18, 2021 • 60min
The second American Revolution: A work in progress
The second American Revolution: A work in progress

Jun 11, 2021 • 34min
Has Silicon Valley made it impossible for us to listen?
Ximena Vengoechea wants to teach us how to listen again with her new book “Listen Like You Mean It,” but is that even possible in a capitalist world?

Jun 4, 2021 • 53min
Dennis Kucinich: From sleeping in a car as a kid to 16 years in Congress
The former Congress member talks to Robert Scheer about his life and the dramatic events surrounding his political rise, as told in his new book “The Division of Light and Power.”