so tonight, chicago professor david schweickart encourages to us have a conversation about alternatives to capitalism. then actress jenny slate gets nis to gig about her new film "landline". we're glad you joined us. all of that coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station, from viewers like you. thank you. >>> please welcome david schweickart to this program, the fa loss fer and mathematician. he proet wrote the similar text "after capitalism" and has been teaching students about democracy for over 40 years now i'm honored to slim on this program. thanks for your time, sir. >> my pleasure to be here. >> let me jump with this the. text that you wrote prior to this was called "against capitalism" and then comes the following book "after capitalism". the against e "against capitalism" i understand but when i saw this one dint know where you were going with that this. that title means what exactly? >> a little background of that even. as you say i started out my career as a mathematician, taught for a year at the university of kentucky and then kent state happened h

. >> hi, i'm tavis smiley, join me next time for a conversation with professor david schweickart aboutnatives to capitalism and actress jenny slate about her film, "landline." see you then. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >> be mo >>> good evening from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley. a string of critical losses including last year's presidential race raised question as but the future of the democratic party. according to a new abc news/"washington post" poll, a majority of americans think democrats don't stand for anything other than being against president trump. so tonight, we'll speak with the dnc chair, tom frperez. then jonathan livingston, his new book, kennedy and king, chronicles what many describe as interesting, complicated relationship between the two icons. we are glad you joined us. all of that coming up in just a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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so tonight, chicago professor david schweickart encourages to us have a conversation about alternatives to capitalism. then actress jenny slate gets nis to gig about her new film "landline". we're glad you joined us. all of that coming up right