The Radical Imagination Podcast

The Radical Imagination | Imagining Hitler's Aryan Jesus and America's Heretical Slaveholding

Host Jim Vrettos receives guest Susannah Heschel & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to discuss the role of German Protestant theologians during the Third Reich and its similarities with the development of a religious, racist right movement in America during the twentieth century.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining Poor People's Movements Then and Now

Today on the Radical Imagination we have a long needed and long-awaited dialogue between Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Frances Fox Piven, moderated by host Jim Vrettos.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining What an Independent American Left Would Look Like

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York - CUNY.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining A Disability Revolution

Host Jim Vrettos receives guest Judith Heumann, International Disability Rights Advocate. Mrs. Heumann shared his experience and fight on behalf of those who, like herself, experience disabilities.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining Grace and Psychiatry - Transcendence Beyond Body and Mind

Host Jim Vrettos receives as guests Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary; and Dr. James Gilligan, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU. Together they explore the relationship between psychiatry and religion and how it can be more in common than more would expect.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Professor Michael Hudson, Economist, Wall St. Analyst, Political Consultant, Commentator and Journalist; who offers his views in the way finance works and how debt is actually a tool for oppression.

The Radical Imagination- Imagining the Earth in Pain

The earth is in pain, it's real and we know it's real as we observe the climate chaos, the record high temperatures, the extinction of more and more species, the wildfires, the floods, rising seas, toxic air, drought, the tumultuous winds. Our guest today on the Radical Imagination is Rev. Billy Talen of the Earth Church and the Stop Shopping Choir.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining the Radical Love of Shlomo Carlebach and Nina Simone

We welcome to the Radical Imagination two artistic souls Abdur-Rahim Jackson and Daniel Wise who have worked together to create a magnificent film and homage to radical, universal love. The film is entitled "Soul Doctor" and is centered on the life and music of the father of contemporary Jewish music, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and his unlikely, exquisitely powerful relationship with the legendary African American jazz, blues singer Nina Simone.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining a 3rd Act, Front and Center. The Activism of Bill McKibben

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Bill McKibben, America's foremost environmental activist whose most recent book is The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining the Power of Sexual Freedom

Host Jim Vrettos and Co-host Beatty Cohan receive guest Nona Willis Aronowitz. She's an author and sex and love columnist for Teen Vogue, and the editor of two award winning anthologies of her mother Ellen Willis's groundbreaking work on feminism. Her new book Bad Sex -- Truth, Pleasure and an Unfinished Revolution -- touches on a fascinating exploration of the history of female sexual pleasure.