The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

Recent Episodes

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?...

Rev. Arnold Thomas on white rage and pursuing peace

Posted January 15, 2021 • 00:29:46

American democracy is enduring an unprecedented test. An American president, Donald Trump, capped off months of denying the reality that he had lost...

Leahy and Welch on the "catastrophe" of the Trump presidency

Posted January 13, 2021 • 00:51:49

President Donald Trump needed help to spread the lie that he won the 2020 presidential election. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in fact won the election...