jones democratic strategist and lawyer william my robinson professor of sociology at university of california santa barbara where is benedict founder of libertarian booster p a c thank you all for coming on the program thank you ok if you'd like to have your say on thoughts or any of this over stories why not leave a comment or 2 on our facebook page always good to see how you're thinking out there see you soon. they were going underground as the 73rd world health assembly resumes amid a coronavirus pandemic that has killed well over a 1000000 people worldwide and could reshape the global economy away from washington dollar dominance coming up on the show with former goldman sachs banker richie soon at running the u.k. finances join the pandemic we look at the culture that spawned not only him but also the 2008 financial crash with 2 former bankers turned t.v. writers whose new show industry exposes the arguable class war at the heart of the city of london but what drives those who make it to the top of the world of banking we investigate the real american psychos as well as those crushed by modern capital

lead on to democratic strategist and lawyer william professor of sociology at the university of california in santa barbara benedict founder of the libertarian political action committee good to see you all thanks for taking the time today is can we kick off with you is the electoral college system is it a relic of the past and should it be consigned to history. most of the time whoever wins the popular vote would also win the electoral college of course we've seen something different in 2 elections which was kind of surprising 2000 in 2016 i'm in texas which is a big state and i'm a libertarian so i don't prefer republicans or democrats one or the other i am what i tell voters here to try and get them to vote libertarian as i say your vote will have no impact on the outcome of the election we know republicans always win texas just like democrats always win california so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. that example demonstrates how the electoral college does make a lot of voters preferences not very influential ok the electoral college it gives a voice to the voice lee does

i was going to college at the university of california santa barbara and i had fallen in love with theins, went from georgia to west virginia, going to fiddler's conventions and i fell in love with the music and the people and the place and culture. to me, it was like -- it was like stepping into the lost world because at this time, we're talking 1969 through 1973 or something, a lot of these old-timers -- all of them were born in the late 1800s. these people that were closely connected to our pioneer an ancestors more than modern people, i thought this was fascinating and the music was great and the people were so wonderful. they wouldn't give you lessons, but they would play for you and you would try to figure it out, come back and talk to them the next and build a repertoire. it became important to collect this music in the 1960s and the 18970s. and there's a variety of reasons. in the 1960s, you had a folk music boom you could call it. an explosion of interest in folk music. this manifests itself in performing groups like the kingston trio or peter, paul and mary, bob dylan. but lo

in politicalis phd science from the university of california at santa barbara. dr.ghted to introduce patterson and dr. morrison to join us for this conversation. question thank you. collects --kup -- collects -- crafting a civil body politic, the community created a freedom ineligious law in the future. dr. morrison, would you elaborate on that statement? >> i would be happy to. the mayflower compact is not a constitution. occasionally he would hear it is not. it is a proto-constitution though in that it creates that social contract, that civil body politic as they refer to themselves. that lovely and even intimate organic metaphor for a political committee, i did extract a promise from the signatories. they promise they will abide by those laws that they will make themselves, whether they be religious laws, civil laws, but there are not any laws laid down . there are not institutions of government created by that compact. that was my point of saying it creates a space in the future for religious liberty and their actively leaving england and the church of engla

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