Winner of national Communicator and W3 Awards: the podcast for people who make progress. Your host: writer, consultant, and national media commentator Spencer Critchley.
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good
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4.9(19 reviews)
89 episodes
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Winner of national Communicator and W3 Awards: the podcast for people who make progress. Your host: writer, consultant, and national media commentator Spencer Critchley.
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Recent Episodes
January 27, 2026
Minneapolis: Saving Democracy From Moral Bankruptcy
<p>Normally, we should be reluctant to talk about politics in terms of morality. We can't live with each other, in peace anyway, if we think disagreement is a matter of good and evil.<br /> <br /> But that doesn't mean that democracy is amoral. Democracy will survive if we all stand up for the shared moral values that make democracy possible.<br /> <br /> That's what the peaceful protesters in Minneapolis are doing, even at the risk of their own lives: showing us how to rescue our democracy from moral bankruptcy.</p> <p>Video & transcript: https://spencercritchley.substack.com/p/minneapolis-saving-democracy-from</p>
January 22, 2026
MAGA: An Escape From Freedom
<p>One of the most confusing things about Trumpism is this paradox: People who believe so strongly in individual freedom are also eager to give away all their power, to one man. Why?</p> <p>One reason: Human beings yearn for freedom, but when we actually get it, we may find it terrifying. So argued the influential German psychologist Erich Fromm in "Escape From Freedom," published in 1941, when another authoritarian was at the peak of his power.</p>
January 11, 2026
The Shooting of Renee Good
<p>In a democracy, law enforcement exists to protect people: their safety and their Constitutional rights.</p> <p>Under authoritarianism, law enforcement protects power.</p> <p>Under autocracy, it protects the power of one man.</p> <p>Which way we're going to live is still up to us. The shooting of Renee Nicole Good shows us what's at stake.</p> <p>— Spencer</p>
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