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The Digital Deep Dive With Aaron ConantThe Power of Amazon Streaming TV Ads With Adam EpsteinAdam Epstein is the Co-founder and CEO of Gigi, which helps brands and agencies buy and measure Amazon Streaming TV ads. As a technology entrepreneur and executive, he has experience in SaaS, business and corporate development, sales, operations, strategy, partnerships, and product management. Before Gigi, Adam was the Co-president and VP of Growth at Perpetua, a growth infrastructure software for eCommerce.  In this episode… The Amazon advertising space is evolving constantly, with budgets for on-site sponsored ads plateauing. Streaming TV has emerged as a profitable advertising channel integrated with Amazon Marketing Cloud. With streaming TV sti...
2024-09-1246 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinShabbos KestenbaumShabbos Kestenbaum is a graduate student at Harvard University, researching the intersections between between public policy and contemporary Jewish life in the United States. Shabbos is the lead plaintiff against Harvard University alleging pervasive and systemic antisemitism. Shabbos has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and in The New York Times, and has testified in front of the United States Congress, among other forums, to advocate for the American Jewish community. Currently, Shabbos is working with Congress to pass major pieces of legislation to combat antisemitism.Adam and Shabbos sit down to discuss the raging antisemitism on college...
2024-06-031h 00Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinMichael SteeleWhen he was elected Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2003, Michael Steele made history as the first African American elected to statewide office; and again with his subsequent chairmanship of the Republican National Committee in 2009.A longtime political analyst and contributor  to MSNBC, Michael is currently the co-host of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” which airs Saturdays and Sundays at 8AM EST.Having recently appeared on Michael’s podcast “The Michael Steele Podcast,” Adam turns the tables and is able to ask Michael all about his life , his time as the first black party chairman for the RNC, the raci...
2024-05-311h 17Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinRon ReaganRon Reagan, the son of former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, grew up in Los Angeles and Sacramento while his father served as Governor of California from 1967-1975. After a brief career as a classical ballet dancer, Ron Reagan has spent the past 40 years as a correspondent, host and political commentator in television and radio, chiefly for MSNBC and Air America. He has written for many publications — Esquire, Newsweek, The New Yorker and Playboy among them — and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, My Father at 100. He is a board member of the Freed...
2024-05-241h 16Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJohn PavlovitzJohn Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. John was one of our very first guests on Dirty Moderate over 2 years ago, and we were thrilled to spend time with this deep thinking, generous, loving, and spirited human again. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. His work is a testament to finding meaning not only in our politics but in our lives. John’s latest book, “Worth Fighting For” is a primer for...
2024-05-2353 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStella O'MalleyStella is an Irish psychotherapist who had her own intense experience with gender as a child, and the resolution of her gender distress has made her curious about the wisdom of early intervention. As a result, in addition to facilitating a parent coachingsite that provides practical help to parents who are navigating their child’s gender-related distress, and acting as the presenter for the documentary, “Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk (2018), Stella is the director of Genspect, an international organization that offers a healthy approach to sex and gender.Stella is the co-author of a 2023...
2024-05-211h 04Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinReed GalenReed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, host of the Lincoln Project podcast and author of The HomeFront Substack, and a self-proclaimed Cassandra. Reed is an independent political strategist who has spent years advising Fortune 500 companies, and has also worked on several prominent republican campaigns.He joins Adam to assess the Never Trump movement( of which they are both part) from 30,000 feet and the precariousness of democracy. How will Trump’s legal predicaments affect his electoral fate? What percentage of independent/Haley voters does Biden need to win re-election? Is to easier to ru...
2024-05-091h 00Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWilliam InbodenWilliam Inboden is Professor and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and Peterson Senior Fellow with the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  He joins Adam in a discussion centering around his latest book“The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World.”Inboden’s masterly book provides a definitive account of  Reagan’s strategic approach to diplomacy, his nuanced statecraft, and the impact of his decisions on the global stage. This compe...
2024-05-0257 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinAlana Newhouse, Tablet MagazineAlana Newhouse  is an American writer and editor. She is the founder of Tablet magazine, a dynamic hub of Jewish life, which features news, essays, podcasts and opinion pieces.In November 2022, Alana wrote an essay for Tablet called “Brokenism.” The essay remains deeply compelling because, as Alana argues, that “the real debate today isn’t between the left and the right . It’s between those invested in our current institutions, and those who want to build anew.”This is a must read essay and Alana and Adam use this piece as a springboard to discuss ou...
2024-04-2547 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinMona CharenMona Charen is a conservative American journalist, columnist, commentator and best selling author. She is the Policy Editor of The Bulwark, and host of the Beg to Differ podcast, which you need to subscribe to immediately.  Mona fell hard for William F. Buckley as a teenager, and her first job was as editorial assistant at his National Review. She went on to write speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and then for the Gipper himself.  Looking toward the 1988 race, Vice President George H.W. Bush wasn’t conservative enough for her. Fast forward through 4 best selling books (see...
2024-04-1855 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIran vs. IsraelAs the host of the podcast History of the Land of Israel, and his own YouTube show, Israel Explained, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim spends his time thinking about Israel and assessing Israel’s long term goals. Given Iran’s attack on Israel, we invited Shaiel back to Dirty Moderate so he and Adam could discuss the implications of Iran launching drones and missiles, including ballistic ones, directly at Israel for the first time in Israel’s history. What does this mean for the stability of the region( or instability?) Arab nations like Jordan and Saudi Arabia joined Irael in interce...
2024-04-1655 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinMike Gonzalez of The Heritage FoundationMike Gonzalez is the Angeles T Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is a longtime journalist who currently writes for The Washington Examiner. Prior to that, he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, where he was based in Hong Kong. Mike is an ardent conservative and he sees the re-election of Trump as the only stopgap against the progressive onslaught of the left. His latest book is “NextGen Marxism: What it is and How to Combat it,” which might as well his own ideological manifesto. Mike and Adam don’t agree o...
2024-04-081h 13Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJoseph EllisGeorge Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radial change without their colonists’ consent.With his latest book,  The Cause, Joseph J. Ellis sits down with Adam and discusses how his book takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war mo...
2024-04-021h 12Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinYasmine Mohammed-UnveiledAs a young girl born in Canada, Yasmine Mohammed was born into a strict Islamic household. If she missed a word of her Koran readings, she was beat until her feet were bloody and raw. And the Canadian government said there was nothing they could do to help her. “This is your culture,” they smugly told her. But Yasmine escaped the horrors of her childhood and the strictures of her faith to emerge as an important spokesperson for women everywhere, especially lapsed Muslims who have also been emancipated from the patriarchal, repressive dogma of Radic...
2024-04-011h 20Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDamon LinkerDamon Linker, is a writer for the Atlantic and is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground” and is an Open Society Project senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.Damon joins Adam to discuss his latest article for the Atlantic, "The Dead-Enders of the Reagan-Era GOP" in which Damon argues that Mike Pence's non-endorsement of Donald Trump only underlines how irrevocably the Republican Party has left traditional conservatism behind and embraces populism. Don’t miss Damon’s conversation with Adam about how...
2024-03-291h 01Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDavid FrenchNew York Times columnist David French joins Adam to discuss the role of religion in public life, and he offers up a unique portal into the pro-life movement, and its perils in the aftermath of Roe. David discusses the important role of the courts, and especially the critical role of the Supreme Court, in securing( or not securing) the guardrails against a Trump/MAGA led assault on our institutions and norms. David is an expert on the law, faith and politics, Prior to his being at the Times, David was at Dispatch, which he helped launch, and T...
2024-03-191h 07Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinSteve SchmidtAs arguably the pre-eminent voice warning about the dangers of Donald Trump, longtime political operative Steve Schmidt needs no introduction.But in case you have been abducted by aliens, Steve is the founder, author and host of The Warning, a digital media company comprised of a daily newsletter, podcast and video analysis on his YouTube channel. Through The Warning, Schmidt discusses the events that are shaping our times and the unseen forces shaping American culture and politics that are rarely discussed on cable news.Schmidt is recognized for his part in the 2008 U.S. election cycle, serving a...
2024-03-111h 11Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinNoah RothmanNoah Rothman is an author and conservative thinker who is a Senior Writer for National Review, and whose recent bestseller, “The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun,” is the chief subject of the second episode of our new series Dirty Moderate After Dark.Adam and Noah do a deep dive into the origins of Puritan thought, and they detail the odd, and very uniquely American way in which Puritanical thinking is embedded into our cultural and political tapestry. What’s more, No...
2024-03-041h 21Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinTina Nguyen-The MAGA DiariesTina Nguyen is a national correspondent for Puck covering the world of Donald Trump and the American right for their The Best & The Brightest newsletter. Previously, Nguyen was a White House reporter for Politico, a staff reporter for Vanity Fair Hive, and an editor at Mediaite.Her new book, The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) is a dazzling memoir of Tina’s fast, furious, stressful and altogether bonkers time in the world of the Conservative movement long before it was destroyed and devoured by Trumpworld. Tina talks to...
2024-02-261h 03Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinPhilip K. HowardPhilip K. Howard is a lawyer, author and chair of Common Good (www.commongood.org), a nonpartisan organization aimed at replacing red tape with human responsibility and agency. In his discussion with Adam, Philip discusses his latest book “Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society,” which argues that the post 1960’s legal framework which has guided government policy for 60 years has been a failure. Philip persuasively argues that humans have been disempowered and common sense has been thrown out the window. Inertia and powerlessness have overtaken our politics because so called ‘good government’ has come to be synon...
2024-02-2351 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJames KirchickJames Kirchick is a columnist for Tablet magazine, a writer at large for Air Mail, and author of the instant New York Times bestseller, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.  Jamie( as he is known,) sits down with Adam and details why he wrote “Secret City,” discusses his longtime interest in Cold War history and assesses the intersection of anti-Communist and anti-gay hysteria and the toll it took on so many gay people in gover...
2024-02-191h 14Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIsrael explained with Shaiel Ben-EphraimAs the host of the podcast History of the Land of Israel, and his own YouTube show, Israel Explained, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim spends his time thinking about Israel, assessing Israel’s long term goals and strategies and nuancing a discussion about Israel and the Palestinians which blessedly sheds more light than heat.A self described “Liberal Zionist,” Shaiel sits down with Adam to discuss his time as a young man working in intelligence for the IDF, the current state of Israel’s war with Hamas, the necessity of a demilitarized and self governing Palestinian state, and the fraught legacy o...
2024-02-151h 01Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinCommentator and Press Secretary- Kaivan Shroff At once passionate and eloquent, Kaivan Shroff may just be the Democratic Party’s most effective communicator. A onetime digital strategist for Hillary Clinton, Kaivan is now the Press Secretary for Dream for America, a Gen-Z movement for freedom, democracy, & progressive government. As a regular pundit and commentator, Kaivan regularly and forcefully makes the case for Biden’s re-election. Kaivan sits down with Adam and they engage in a spirited conversation about all things Democratic, political and of course, democracy.Follow Kaivan on Twitter Learn more about Dream for America Listen to Adam’...
2024-02-1252 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinImmigration breakdown-Special edition of Stay Dirty, Stay ModerateBefore we all settle in to watch Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl, check out Adam’s recent discussion about immigration with the second best blonde of the day, his Executive Producer, Dawn Sorokin in this special edition of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate   Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you regi...
2024-02-1130 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinGazing into the 2024 Election with Kyle KondikWith the 2024 election less than a year away, Kyle Kondick, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ nonpartisan election forecasting newsletter joins the podcast to look at our electoral landscape—both presidential and congressional—from 30,000 feet. Have a listen as Kyle and Adam discuss Biden’s vulnerabilities as an incumbent, the precarious senate map for Democrats and whether or not the youth vote can really tip the scales next year at the ballot box. All things Kyle here: https://www.kylekondik.com/Kyle on X: @kkondikChec...
2024-02-0746 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDirty Moderate After Dark with Ross KaminskyA Libertarian and a Dirty Moderate have drinks After DarkKOA Colorado Talk Show Host and longtime friend of Dirty Moderate , Ross Kaminsky returns to the podcast for a special, boozy episode. Swiveling bourbon as they shoot the shit about the shitshow that is today’s politics, Ross joins Adam for a sprawling convo about Trump v Biden, Trump’s many legal challenges, and the state of our perilous world, especially since the recent killing of 3 American soldiers by an Iranian backed terrorist proxy. As always, Ross persuasively makes the case for a libertarian America and...
2024-02-021h 25Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinAdam Kinzinger is a Dirty ModerateWhen it comes to profiles in courage, few people fit the description more aptly than former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who also happens to be a quintessential Dirty Moderate!  In opposing all things Trump, he put country over party and made a robust defense on behalf of democracy a cornerstone of his political identity. Bravo, sir.His new book, “Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty In Our Divided Country,” charts Kinzinger’s journey from a 20 year old member of the County Board to his service in the Air Force in Afghanistan and Iraq, to his election to Cong...
2024-01-1137 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWhen you are young, they assume you know nothingWhen you are young, they assume you know nothing-Travis Kelce's girlfriend At only 16 years old, yes you read that correctly, William He has founded Dream4 America, a Gen Z-led non-profit founded in 2023 dedicated to mobilizing America’s students to promote the principles of freedom, democracy, & progressive government.Born as a progressive counterpoint to Turning Point USA,  the conservative youth movement founded by Right wing darling, Charlie Kirk, Dream4America advocates for what it calls “The Zoomer’s New Deal,” taking inspiration from FDR's New Deal. The program is a list of demands f...
2023-12-1250 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinVoting Rights and Civic Re-engagementDesmond Meade's life story has been one of pain, perseverance, and finally, triumph.  From a drug addicted felon waiting for a train to jump in front of to heading up the groundbreaking Florida Rights Restoration Coalition which has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for:"their work in building democracies, supporting the human right to representation by government, and working towards a better organized and peaceful world."Desmond, like FRRC is a force to be reckoned with. The nonprofit’s greatest success was the overwhelming passage of Amendment 4, the initiative that represented the...
2023-12-0154 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIsrael Roundtable with Dara Horn and Ethan Chorin Jewish Americans - much like the U.S. public overall – hold widely differing views on Israel and its political leadership. Israeli domestic policies and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict generate fiery attitudes toward Israel during peace time, and after the brutal Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, feelings have intensified. And rightly so. We invited 2 brilliant individuals, with deeply learned understandings of the complexities in the region on the show to have a roundtable discussion with Adam about Israel ,hoping to peel back some layers and get to the heart of the conflict. Boy, did we ever. We lived up...
2023-11-211h 09Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWhen Stuart speaksStuart Stevens , Senior Adviser to the Lincoln Project, and longtime GOP campaign advisor and guru joins the podcast to talk with Adam about his new book: The Conspiracy to End AmericaFive Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to AutocracyApart from their discourse on the dangers of democracy,  Stuart and Adam lament the collapse of the party of the once, great party of Lincoln into a Trumpian puddle.Pull up a chair and lean in to this to admitted political nerdfest covering presidential history, the Democrats’s political inco...
2023-11-1154 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIsrael from 30,000ftOver the last three decades, Ethan Chorin has had an extraordinary view of developments in the Middle East and Africa as an American diplomat, oil and ports executive and advisor to senior government officials. We invited Ethan to return to the show to discuss his thoughts on the events unfolding after the Hamas attack on Israel. You may remember Ethan’s first appearance on the show last October (Episode 70). when he joined Adam in conversation about the incredible book he wrote after witnessing first hand the fiasco in Benghazi:Benghazi!: A New History of th...
2023-10-2839 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinHell is empty and all the devils are here.Adam on Israel. For more on the atrocities in Israel both modern day and historical join us in unabashedly standing up for Israel and our fight to save democracy  by becoming a member of the Dirty Moderate Nation.  @dirtymoderateThanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to
2023-10-1121 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein2 cousins walk in to a podcast...Sit in on a chat between two brilliant, ambitious and talented podcast hosts -who happen to be cousins- discussing a wild and wonderful journey from Miami to Harvard to the UK and back again, with a few life changing choices, internships, kids, and a lot of coffee along the way…Adam’s beloved cousin, talented author and human extraordinaire, ladies and gentlemen, the brave and beautiful, Alisha Fernandez MirandaIt takes a rare kind of gumption to stand up, look at your #blessed life and say, “but what else can I do, see, accomp...
2023-09-161h 08Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinThe latest MAGA target: PEPFARThis year marks the 20th anniversary of George W. Bush’s transformative program to combat H.I.V. and AIDS in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The left’s villain of yesteryear, who was (somewhat) rehabilitated in the Trump era,  and rightly maligned for the disaster that was the invasion of Iraq, Bush also waged a noble war against an epidemic. This ongoing battle is now two decades old, and it has saved 25 million lives. But nothing is sacred in the MAGA tainted GOP. Even the life changing achievement of one of this era’s most conserva...
2023-09-0717 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinGOP: Glib Overhyped PetulantListen to Adam's take on last nights debate and Tucker's interview with you know who.Clif Notes version:Haley has no shot at the nomination, but if she did, she'd be viable with independents. Christie is anti-Trump in a MAGA party. DeSantis had the dazzle of an armoire. He's just so bad at politics. Pence is irrelevant. Vivek is a fraud. In the end, Trump looms large. #GOPdebatesThanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack
2023-08-2520 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDM Guest- Conservative Scholar Jon ShieldsYou don’t have to be a Republican to be continually aghast at the descent of the GOP into a haven for cranks, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists , performance artists and liars.We have a two party system in this country, and the collapse of the Republican Party into a Trump led cult, spells more than just trouble for our representative democracy which is only strengthened by an opposition party that challenges a particular set of precepts, offers alternative policies, and gives voters a choice. This, in and of itself, is a safeguard against any abuse of pow...
2023-08-151h 14Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinLeft is NOT Woke"Flesh is interesting. it comes in different sizes and colors and shapes but the bones are the things that bind us and hold us up and also what is left of us when we are gone. Happy to have the flesh be part of the culture, I want the politics to focus on the bones because that’s the only place that you get a sense of common human dignity and common human rights." -Susan Neiman“Susan Neiman’s profound wisdom, courage and vision give us a public conception of goodness and a reinvigorated progressive vision. She is a b...
2023-07-141h 06Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDirty Moderate Ep: 112: A Well Regulated Militia w Matthew Littman of 97Percent"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." As the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited." The Founding Fathers, if they could have foreseen the terror of today, would surely have revised the Second Amendment. But here we are. How does a modern society balance the right to bear arms and protect its citizens-especially its innocent children-from the small yet murderous and sick...
2023-06-161h 06Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinSDSM Ep 110 "Screw Your Optics, I'm Going In"The man charged in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history is currently on trial for the heinous act of shooting to death 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue simply because they were Jews. Adam has a lot to say on the subject and the myriad political agendas attached like gun control, the death penalty, Trump's nauseating validation and encouragement of radical and fascist behaviors, and how mass shootings have to some degree become just another headline, or at the very least, unsurprising.Don’t miss Adam’s interview with Matt Littman of https://www.97percent.us/ drop...
2023-06-0819 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinEp 95 Dirty Moderate w Aurelian CraiutuProfessor, political theorist, and author, Aurelian Craiutu, who has been researching the elusive virtue of moderation for over a decade sits down with Adam to discuss the complexities, richness, and virtue of our very favorite approach to politics.Despite being a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides, Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, politicians generally haven't been willing to be labelled 'moderates'. But if we making our way through much of the group think and kool-aid...
2023-04-101h 07Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDirty Moderate Ep 91 with special guest Ben BrantleyBen Brantley was the chief theater critic of The New York Times for more than 20 years. He wrote more than 2,500 reviews over 27 years beginning in 1993.During Adam’s first act as a Broadway Producer, Ben and Adam “passed each other in the theater aisle” so to speak. Ben reviewed some of Adam’s biggest hits and being consummate professionals, they would not engage while reviews were underway. But in between shows, and now that Ben has taken his last bow as a theater critic having retired to the bucolic Hudson River Valley, Adam and Ben have a proper s...
2023-03-311h 10Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinEp 94-Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate-The Perils of Partisan ScienceNews media outlets in America have their own self-serving agendas. It's no secret MSNBC leans left and yes; surprise, surprise, FOX leans right and so on. When it comes to delivering the news to the citizens of this fine nation, the current day media are most certainly spinning it through their own lens which is irresponsible, and in some instances; dangerous. For example, Ivermectin anyone? "Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies suggest that achieving the plasma concentrations necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in vitro would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use...
2023-03-2422 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinEp 89 Rediscovering Republicanism w Author John NantzWhen well-designed institutions function properly, people thrive. Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and persecuted believers.Yet for decades now, America’s federal government has been underperforming. Social Security and Medicare face looming insolvency. The federal government’s “war on poverty” has failed to end poverty and arguably, has made it worse. In 2012, the United States Postal Service lost more money than the nation s...
2023-02-141h 04Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinEp 88 Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate; Hey Dems: Jewish Lives Fucking Matter, TooToday’s poisonous partisan divide is perilous in at least two key ways. First, it divides a country with 330 million into categories in which a majority of them don’t fit. But second, and perhaps more importantly, the Republican/Democrat cleavage consigns issues which are full of implications, moral, political or otherwise, into reductive boxes entirely hostage to groupthink. The 2024 Presidential Election campaigns have already begun. (that wasn't a rebuttal, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that was a stump speech.) so don’t forget your civic duty, Dirty Moderates! Vote.org, Vote.org,
2023-02-0919 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty, Stay Moderate; A Tale of Two PartiesThe once great party of Lincoln is now a cesspool of buffoonery, lies, and incompetence, and on the eve of the anniversary of the insurrection, with our government in shambles, America weeps.Every one of these ass clowns who are holding the people’s House hostage to their rabid extremism should have their salaries docked until they promise to do what they were elected to do: serve the people. No play? Then no pay.Exhale…Does anyone remember what they are there to do?Get your shit together, Congress. The people dese...
2023-01-0618 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: The White Lotus and American DelusionPolitics is always downwind of culture. And for 2022's final installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam weaves the parallels between Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" and the HBO critically-acclaimed series "The White Lotus" with the delusion of American culture. We'll be back after the holidays but until then, don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone you know. You can even help them figure out where their nearest voting loca...
2022-12-1922 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: American Demons“Anti-” attacks are part of a rhetorical loop in American society. In this week’s “Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate,” Adam examines how horrendous attacks all over the nation are escalating by the day in the name of Anti-Semitism, anti-abortion, homophobia, racism, and more. The following are the names of the 5 victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs: Raymond Green Vance (he/him), Kelly Loving (she/her), Daniel Aston (he/him), Derrick Rump (he/him), Ashley Paugh (she/ her).And don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org...
2022-11-2922 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Democracy Catches its BreathThe American people have exclaimed loud and clear that we will not suffer election denying, insurrectionist fools! While the Republicans will hold the slimmest of margins in the House, Democrats picked up 1 seat in the Senate. But these midterms were not a win for the Democrats or the Republicans. They were a win for Democracy. And everyone's favorite Dirty Moderate supplies us with his analysis for what this means and what to expect going into 2024. For a deeper dive into Adam's analysis, read the companion piece over on Substack. And don’t forget: Vote.or...
2022-11-1918 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Midterms HangoverLooks like the “Red Wave” is actually just a ketchup smear at Mar a Lago. We’re still waiting on the results of the Arizona and Nevada Senate races. No surprise that the Georgia Senate race is going to a run off on Dec 6. And while the Republicans are on track to control the House, their margin will be very slim. Adam goes through all that and so much more.With that in mind, don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to vote...
2022-11-1049 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinThe Critical Constituency with Mike MadridCo-Founder of The Lincoln Project. GOP political consultant; Latino voting trends/political data/analysis, and as close as political royalty as it gets here in America, Mike Madrid was, is, and we imagine, will continue to be, ahead of the curve. Earning his GOP pedigree over thirty years, by changing the outcomes of political campaigns throughout the country. His involvement in local, state, and federal races reaped a keen and some would say, unmatched level of insight into the successful characteristics of winning campaigns. A nationally recognized expert on Latino voting trends, Mike joins Adam in a conversation tracking...
2022-11-071h 09Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Onward Fascist SoldiersMost of the 2022 GOP candidates running for senator, congressperson, governor, and the like are some or all of the following: election denier, huckster, crank, imbecile, clown, weirdo, seditionist, fascist, white nationalist, conspiracy theorist, QAnon loon, inveterate liar and/or crypto Nazi. In this week's installment of "Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate", Adam explores why many voters are apathetic or foolishly complacent this year about the state of our looming fascist disunion.With that in mind, don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to...
2022-10-2918 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinBenghazi with Ethan ChorinEthan Chorin is a former US diplomat, political analyst, environmental entrepreneur, and author of the stunning Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink .From 2004 to 2006, he was one of a handful of US diplomats posted to Libya in the wake of rapprochement with Colonel Gaddafi. Six years later, as co-director of an NGO, he became a witness to the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.Despite hundreds of hours of Congressional hearings, a deep dive into Hillary Clinton’s personal email, and the trial of two suspects (ultimately acquitted), th...
2022-10-2559 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Entitlement, Inc.Can anything be earned anymore or is entitlement the name of the game? In the wake of NYU firing Professor Maitland Jones, who literally wrote the book on organic chemistry, for being too tough on students, Adam talks about how we are creating a generation of people "who don't know how to study" (Maitland Jones, 2014) and the way this impacts our ability to make informed decisions at the ballot box.With that in mind, don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to...
2022-10-1125 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Fuck Herschel WalkerSaving democracy one episode at a time sounds cute, but it’s existential and we mean it. In the 24th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam explores how the GOP closes ranks, not matter what. In the wake of the horrid allegations about Herschel Walker, it’s important to understand how vital the Georgia Senate Race is to the fate of democracy in this country. But the Democrats need to fight back. No more bringing knives to a gun fight. The GOP doesn’t care how they get control of the Senate. And the Raphael Warnock is in the ti...
2022-10-0720 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinPalmetto State Politics with Joel LourieThe Southern, Moderate Democrat might feel like a long lost fable of American history, but they do actually exist! Joel Lourie is a former Democratic State Senator of South Carolina from 2004 until 2017. He and Adam discuss the national allure of South Carolina‘s performance into the midterms and the future of the elusive Southern Democrat. Joel also attempts to save democracy one episode at a time as the host of Bourbon in The Back Room with former Democratic South Carolina State Senator, Vincent Sheheen. And don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote...
2022-10-0448 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Mussolini's RevengeFascism is on the rise. Not just in the United States. In the 23rd installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam dissects the "specter haunting Europe" and the salvo effect of Donald Trump's Presidency around the world. The news of last weekend, the return of Fascism in Italy with the election of Giorgia Meloni (the first female Prime Minister of Italy), should send a chill down everyone's spine. With that in mind, don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to vote if...
2022-10-0124 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Declassify and DistractThere is no master of deflection and master of distraction but Donald J. Trump. In this 22nd installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam navigates us through the very messy situation Trump has put the United States over his magic act of declassifying documents with some history and a touch of civics 101. Lest we forget, Trump has no respect for the rule of law, wants to be a king, and his base wants that too. That’s why it is so important to vote these authoritarian seditionists, domestic terrorists, and fascist traitors out on November 8. With that in...
2022-09-2620 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinFaith and Democracy with Corey NathanWho says you can't talk about politics and religion at the dinner table? This week, former stockbroker, theatre producer, reformed Jew turned Christian, and Host of Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other Podcast, Corey Nathan, joins Adam to discuss the mishegas of religion and politics in this country. These two fellow Dirty Moderates might agree on some things, but oy we're shvitzing over here! And don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to vote if you’re not already...
2022-09-201h 04Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Fascism at the BorderIn the 21st installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam lands us in the middle between the Fascist Right and the Progressive Left as we find ourselves in the throws of the worst kind of immigration politics. As Republicans cry ye old faithful, "there's a crisis at the border!" and Democrats, who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time, claim the border is secure, it would appear that a good old dirty, yet moderate view on the red hot issue is where most Americans actually find common ground. Imagine that? A secure border and a comprehensive...
2022-09-1720 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinFrom The Party of Lincoln to The Lincoln Project with Stuart StevensStuart Stevens, Senior Adviser to The Lincoln Project and the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, sits down with Adam to discuss his experience creating and then abandoning the modern Republican party that currently kneels before a morally bankrupt con man. Now, along with his Lincoln Party compatriots, and anyone else paying attention, Stuart wants nothing more than to see what it has become burn to the fucking ground. His latest book; IT WAS ALL A LIE: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump, details how Trump is the natural outcome of five decades of...
2022-09-131h 10Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: God Save the KingIn the wake of Queen Elizabeth II's death, Prince Charles now ascends the throne and fulfills his destiny to become King Charles III. In the 20th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam employs Mike Bartlett's 2014 play "King Charles III" to explore how an often publicly opinionated and activist Prince Charles may rule as King, despite 75 years of his beloved  mother's quiet and neutral approach to politics. All of this ahead of our “Why Vote?” campaign launching next week! (we love a good tease) And don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to vote if you’re...
2022-09-0918 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: It Ain't Over 'til It's OverWe won’t have Rep. Palin (thank god!), but don’t pop the champagne just yet. In the 19th installment of Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate, Adam regales us with a cautionary tale about midterm elections, dives deep into some key Senate races that aren’t given the media attention they're due, and defines his three indicators to determine which candidate will win election. And don’t forget: Vote.org, Vote.org, Vote.org! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register your family, friends, neighbors, doctor, grocery store clerk, that twice removed cousin you only see once a yea...
2022-09-0320 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: American GrievanceIn the wake of Biden's historical decision to forgive the largest amount of federal student loans in our history, Adam reminds us that every day we are literally funding the larger idea that this country represents. In the 18th installment of SDSM, Adam retorts the argument that others don't deserve help when we didn't get help and let's not forget, we heard nothing when millions in PPP loans were forgiven. Subscribe and follow the show @dirtymoderate!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! ...
2022-08-2814 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Liz Cheney is a Dirty ModerateIn the 17th installment of SDSM, Adam examines the honor and respect for our democracy that Liz Cheney displayed by conceding her primary loss (don't worry, she's running in 2024), and how being able to disagree is a pillar of the freedom we have in this country but lying is proving to be the accelerant needed to tear those pillars down. Subscribe and follow the show @dirtymoderate!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack
2022-08-2022 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinKeeping up with KaminskyRoss Kaminsky brings a fresh perspective to the news, politics, culture and everyday life over on KOA radio in Denver, and is our first guest with a distinctly Libertarian approach. Wait! Wait! Hang on! Don’t go anywhere! We know that may cause some eyes to roll, and trust me, Ross knows, but he was a breath of fresh air sharing his take on things and even though he and Adam didn’t necessarily align in their politics, it gave us as a show the chance to walk the walk that we talk so well and have a meaty dial...
2022-08-181h 08Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIowa State Watchdog with Rob SandLocal elections are the nuts and bolts of our Democracy, and the individuals who are at the helm of state level government play a vital role in maintaining the integrity of this unique and improbable great experiment of a country. As young, rising Democratic rockstar and Iowa State Auditor, Rob Sand, gears up for re-election, he comes to the show to give us a behind the scenes look at his notable efforts to keep government spending accountable and explores one of Adam’s favorite topics; how partisanship is killing our country. Subscribe and follow the show @dir...
2022-08-0256 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Give Me Liberty, Not PartisanshipIn the 16th installment of SDSM, Adam reviews "Two Concepts of Liberty," the inaugural lecture by political philosopher Isaiah Berlin from 1958 and discusses the difference between positive and negative liberties and reminds us not to forget that we are both free by and from the government. Subscribe and follow the show @dirtymoderate!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter!
2022-07-3120 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Statecraft and SeditionIn the 15th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam transports us back to the early days of the 13 colonies when the Continental Congress established CIVILIAN control over the armed forces so the Commander-in-Chief could not abuse power over the military to stage a coup, much like Donald Trump attempted to do with an executive order for the military to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. Subscribe and follow the show @dirtymoderate!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate N...
2022-07-2320 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinExpress Yourself with Jacob MchangamaWhat does free speech mean? Should it protect blasphemy? Hate speech? Fake news? Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. It is a complex principle that must be protected at all costs. Jacob Mchangama, lawyer, author, podcast host, and CEO of Justitia, a Denmark based think tank dedicated to human rights and freedom of speech sits down with Adam to discuss the evolution of our most precious principle, as outlined in his gripping book Free Speech: from Socrates to Social Media. Jacob shares his view from the front row of the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy that inspired his path...
2022-07-1952 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: The Perils of PartisanshipIn the 14th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam examines how the tides are changing in the outlook of the Midterms and speaks directly to the center-right, "small c" Conservatives who are still on the fence about voting Democrat (even though the alternative is a Trump-led, authoritarian cult). Subscribe and follow the show @dirtymoderate!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on ...
2022-07-1620 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Tory Honor, Trumpublican DishonorIn the 13th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate recorded the day Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister, Adam compares Johnson's Tory Party (Conservative) with the Republican Party, challenges true Conservatives to keep Trump accountable, and calls for a non-partisan American Coalition against Trumpism. Subscribe and follow the show @dirtymoderate!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! ...
2022-07-1522 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJohnny Cash was a Dirty Moderate with Michael Stewart FoleyMichael Stewart Foley - celebrated historian of American political culture. With a family history of labor activism and political campaigning, this Bostonite has turned his All-American upbringing into a lifelong study of America and all of her flawed charms. His totally fucking marvelous book, Citizen Cash: The political Life and Times of Johnny Cash, is a must read for Dirty Moderates, but truly should be required reading for the masses who have only read or been fed the cliff’s notes version of the soul of this country. He and Adam have a he...
2022-07-0556 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Pride, Prejudice, and PrivacyIn the 12th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate recorded on the last day of Pride Month, Adam questions what pride we have as Americans leading up to the 4th of July after weeks of political turmoil from the highest court in our land how the dehumanization of marginalized groups is a key play in the slippery slope playbook to Fascism.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on ...
2022-07-0320 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinPolitics & Musicals: 20 Years of HAIRSPRAY with David Armstrong's "Broadway Nation"Today’s episode is a little different… It’s a collab with David Armstrong’s Broadway Nation.  David Armstrong’s Broadway Nation is all about the history of the Broadway Musical, and today we combine forces to discuss the many connections and intersections between the Broadway Musical and American politics. Twenty years ago Adam and David had the tremendous good fortune to both be involved in the creation of the Tony Award winning “Best Musical” HAIRSPRAY.  Adam was part of that show’s original New York producing team, and David was the Producing Artistic Director of Seattle’s 5th Av...
2022-07-0156 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinContinued Coverage: 5th January 6th Committee HearingIn the 11th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, we continue our coverage of the 5th January 6 Committee Hearing with immediate reaction including summary, analysis, and opinion from Adam. You can catch the entire broadcast of the 1st January 6th Committee Hearing right here on the podcast or watch every second of our Special Coverage on the @dirtymoderate Twitter Page.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on
2022-06-2521 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinContinued Coverage: 3rd January 6th Committee HearingIn the 10th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, we continue our coverage of the 3rd January 6 Committee Hearing with immediate reaction including summary, analysis, and opinion from Adam. You can catch the entire broadcast of the 1st January 6th Committee Hearing right here on the podcast or watch every second of our Special Coverage on the @dirtymoderate Twitter Page. Our Special Coverage continues Tuesday, June 21, at 1pm ET of the 4th January 6th Committee Hearing only on our Twitter page.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time!
2022-06-1811 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinContinued Coverage: 1st January 6th Committee HearingIn the 9th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, we continue our coverage of the 1st January 6 Committee Hearing with summary, analysis, and opinion from Adam. You can catch the entire broadcast of the 1st January 6th Committee Hearing right here on the podcast or watch every second of our Special Coverage on the @dirtymoderate Twitter Page. Our Special Coverage continues tomorrow at 10am ET of the 2nd January 6th Committee Hearing only on our Twitter page.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty...
2022-06-1221 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinShe’s Speaking with Maya MayMaya May, the always optimistic, but tell it like is, co-host of the Lincoln Project’s powerhouse shows We’re Speaking and The Game We’re In brings her brilliance, beauty, comedy, and candor to the table and Adam is ALL IN. Don’t miss Maya’s new podcast, We Gonna Fix This or Nah?  which aims to solve this country’s problem-solving problem, which if you can say 5 times fast, will earn you accolades from Maya, perhaps in Espanol, which she is fluent in from her former life as a successful ex-pat in Argentina. Grab some pop...
2022-06-021h 14Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: American HeartbreakIn the 7th installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam discusses the 2nd Amendment in the wake of the 2nd worst school shooting in U.S. history at Robb Elementary School and the importance of common sense gun laws.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to ...
2022-05-2819 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWith Great Power Comes Great Responsibility with Steven LeVineThree weeks after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Steve LeVine started an 11-year journey as the region’s foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, Steve served as Newsweek’s foreign correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Think he’s learned a thing or two about power struggles? Speaking of power, Steve currently serves as the Editor of The Electric, a newsletter discussing all aspects of the burgeoning electric industry. He joins Adam to discuss myriad topics including the way Elon Musk is following Henry Ford’s script, how electric...
2022-05-2455 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Peril in PennsyltuckyIn the 6th installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam warns of Doug Mastriano, the first open seditionist nominated to a gubernatorial election, and the pending demise of the Blue Wall protecting Democracy from an authoritarian cult.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to VOTE
2022-05-2016 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinCalculus of Cruelty Can Lead to Gorgeous Fiction with Omar El AkkadOmar El Akkad is an author and journalist, having won many awards and accolades for both his journalistic prowess and as Adam says his “gorgeous” fiction. His latest novel, What Strange Paradise, was released in July 2021 and won the Giller Prize. It was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and several other publications. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into 13 languages. Omar the person is even better, as you will come to understand when listening to this episode. His brilliant, observational approach and...
2022-05-1749 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: The Progressive Cuckold of DemocracyIn the 5th installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam spells out the mistake of nominating Progressive candidates in a Moderate country and challenges us to stay focused on the real enemy of Democracy.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to VOTE?
2022-05-1420 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinViolence, Biased Media, and Coups, Oh My! With James MoroneAmerica’s first contested election was in 1800 and shit was only getting started... Political Scientist and world-renowned expert/professor/author, James Morone, brings his incisive analysis the current tribalism of American politics and walks through over 250 years of partisan discord our young country has displayed. Race and immigration are two things that have always been at the core of decision making in America, and clearly that still rages today. As Morone says: "Partisanship is not a fever. It’s what democracies do.” Join Adam and Professor Morone as they dig through the past to find answers for our splintering presen...
2022-05-101h 04Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Originalism is BullshitIn the 4th installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" what the fuck do you think we're going to talk about? Adam dissects the meaning of rescinding Roe v Wade and has a very important reminder about what you can do about it.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered...
2022-05-0617 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinTales of a Race Shifting Undercover Salesman with AJ BaimeTake 2 parts Ford v. Ferrari, 2 parts Dewey v. Truman, add a dash of WSJ and mix in the wildest story about the other Walter White, shake it up and pour these fascinating topics out of a brilliant journalistic mind and what do you get? You get our new favorite cocktail; The A.J. Baime! NY Times Best Selling author of THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT, THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY, and GO LIKE HELL joins Adam to share the story of his latest book: WHITE LIES: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF WALTER F. WHITE AND AMERICA'S DARKEST SECRET which will absolutely...
2022-05-0434 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate: Let's Talk about LisaIn the 3rd installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam explains our endorsement of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (gasp!!!) and explores the true Centrist, Moderate nature of the great experiment called America.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to VOTE?
2022-04-2917 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate.In the 2nd installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam examines how bullying culture has become the norm since the 2016 election and shares insights into the bleak outlook for the Dems in the upcoming Midterms.Rate and Subscribe!Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to
2022-04-2219 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinThe United States is the World’s Leader in Incarceration with Nicole D. PorterThe number of people in prisons and jails has increased 500% over the last 40 years, resulting in prison overcrowding, fiscal burdens on states, and an enormous strain on the imprisoned individuals, their families, and communities. Nicole Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, sits down with Adam to discuss the work they do as advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.Thanks for helping us save democracy one...
2022-04-1550 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJewish Identity with Ben M. FreemanBorn in Scotland, Ben is a gay, Jewish, internationally renowned author, educator and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion specialist focusing on Jewish identity, combatting Jew-hatred and raising awareness of the Holocaust. He is the founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement and the author of the Jewish Pride manifesto, Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, released in February 2021 to great international acclaim. Ben and Adam discuss anti-Zionism, Israel, and the complexities of being a modern day Jew. Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join t...
2022-04-1553 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinThe 20th Century’s Most Popular Dictatorship with Peter FritzscheHistorian and Professor Peter Fritzsche lays out how an unimaginable political transformation can quickly take an authoritarian turn as it did in Germany in 1933. Adam and Professor Fritzsche discuss how the Nazi’s courted support by cultivating the electorate’s paranoia and gullibility-2 traits that are more compatible than they sound, and some might say, the same traits throughout the underbelly of the January 6th insurrection. Professor Fritzsche’s latest book,
2022-04-1559 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinReclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes with Steven B. SmithSteven B. Smith’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, highlights how the concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has now become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an “us versus them” worldview, while on the left, patriotism is seen as an impediment to acknowledging important ethnic, religious, or racial identities and a threat to cosmopolitan globalism. Adam and Pr...
2022-04-1542 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinCourage is Contagious with Cyd Zeigler and Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com is a sports news website concerned with LGBTQ+ issues and personalities in amateur and professional sports. The company was founded in 1999 by Cyd Zeigler, and Jim Buzinski who join Adam to talk about their front row seats to LGBTQ+ athletes, and how acceptance has grown and flourished.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our
2022-04-1531 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStay Dirty. Stay Moderate.In this 1st installment of “Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate.” Adam shares his thoughts on being “politically homeless” and gives an update on the state of the Dirty Moderate nation.Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to VOTE?
2022-04-1516 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinTry Not To Be a Jerk with John PavlovitzJohn Pavlovitz is an American Unitarian pastor and author, known for his progressive social and political writings from a post modern Unitarian Universalist perspective. His latest book, If God is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk, boldly challenges us to help create a world that is more loving and equitable than when we arrived. John and Adam have a fantastic exchange discussing life, God, death, politics, and why, if any of it, actually matters. Tweet the show @DirtyModerateThanks for helping us save democracy one ep...
2021-12-2042 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDoes the Blue Dog Still Bark? With Rep. Forrest Bennett(D) Rep. Forrest Bennett of the 92nd District of Oklahoma is a shining blue light in the very red sea. Adam probes into Forrest’s vibrant perspective on how living, promoting, and representing a left leaning constituency in OK challenges and excites him, and why his situation is becoming more and more common across the country. Tweet the show @DirtyModerateThanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on...
2021-12-2051 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinHow Many Rural Dems Will Be Left Behind? With Richard OjedaRichard Ojeda could fuel the entire Texas energy grid if only someone knew how to harness his power. Retired Major, US Army, Former (D) State Senator of West Virginia 7th District, and National Spokesperson forNo Dem Left Behind, this man brings the heat. Wildly knowledgeable and endlessly passionate, Richard talks with Adam about the challenges the people of rural West Virginia face, and why it absolutely fucking matters. Tweet the show @DirtyModerateThanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time!
2021-12-2058 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinReunited, and it Feels So Good! With Trish ReganTrish Regan, host of "The Trish Regan Show" a daily podcast ranked among the top business news shows in America, and Publisher of TrishIntel.com, a multi-media digital news site covering the latest economic, political and markets stories, sits down with Adam for a reunion between the former FOX News anchor and her on-air token sexy, gay, leftish commentator. They cover an array of topics, from Trish’s fascinating journey from Miss New Hampshire to FOX anchor and beyond, to the state of public education in America sharing their sometimes op...
2021-12-201h 06Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinTrailer #1 - Who is Adam and why should you care? Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to VOTE?
2021-11-1900 min