Trump’s Cabinet, the “tech-industrial complex,” and why the 1930s classic “The Grapes of Wrath” is still being banned
Former CIA Director John Brennan and the Atlantic’s Tom Nichols on Trump’s top cabinet nominees, former Washington Governor Jay Inslee on the politicization of disaster relief, Maria Ressa on journalism in a new Trump era, Akbar Shahid Ahmed on the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and Emily Danforth and Bruce Robbins on “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck, this week’s selection for the Velshi Banned Book Club.
Velshi · Fmr. Gov. Jay Inslee, Dr. Emily Danforth, Dr. Bruce Robbins, Maria Ressa, Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ali Velshi, John O. Brennan, Dr. Tom Nichols
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Show Notes
Former CIA Director John Brennan weighs in on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to serve as Director of National Intelligence, Nobel Prize-winner Maria Ressa shares crucial lessons for reporting on a government that’s hostile to the free press, and why this week’s selection for the Velshi Banned Book Club, John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is still so relevant to American life and politics that it’s still being banned.
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