The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

Recent Episodes

The growing threat of hate groups and white supremacists

Posted February 3, 2021 • 00:29:39

Hate is on the rise. Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a rare National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin warning of the...

How can we eradicate poverty?

Posted January 29, 2021 • 00:24:28

About 1 in 10 people — nationally and in Vermont — live below the poverty line. Low-income people are everywhere.

There’s a pernicious...

Vermont media reckons with its own racism and sexism

Posted January 27, 2021 • 00:27:17

This has been a year of reckoning for American journalism. In the wake of the racial justice protests last summer following the police murder of George...

Stuart Stevens on the collapse of the Republican Party

Posted January 22, 2021 • 00:30:40

As former president Donald Trump trades the White House for Mar-a-Lago, his luxury club in Florida, he leaves in his wake a Republican Party in disarray....

Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump as a 21st century strongman

Posted January 20, 2021 • 00:29:27

Joe Biden is now the 46th president of the United States, and Donald Trump becomes a figure in history. But where and how does Trump fit into that history?...