The Making of Chuck Schumer
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, David Klion on the Senate minority leader’s revealing new book.
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The Making of Chuck Schumer w/ David Klion | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
By helping the Republicans pass a spending bill that made no compromises with the Democrats and extend Donald Trump’s power over the government, Chuck Schumer has made himself widely unpopular in his own party. Anger at Schumer is so intense that he had to cancel parts of his tour to promote his new book Antisemitism in America: A Warning. David Klion, Nation columnist and frequent guest on the podcast, reviewed this volume for The Baffler. He joins to podcast to discuss both the book and the making of Chuck Schumer.
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US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York, speaks during a news conference about the Trump administration’s tariffs and budget plans, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2025.
(Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)By helping the Republicans pass a spending bill that made no compromises with the Democrats and extended Donald Trump’s power over the government, Chuck Schumer has made himself widely unpopular in his own party. Anger at Schumer is so intense that he had to cancel parts of his tour to promote his new book Antisemitism in America: A Warning. David Klion, Nation columnist and frequent guest on the podcast, reviewed this volume for The Baffler. He joins the podcast to discuss both the book and the making of Chuck Schumer.
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Fighting Monopoly Power w/ Zephyr Teachout / The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Donald Trump is practicing crony capitalism on an unprecedented scale, with the government greenlighting major mergers that benefit the president’s friends (most notably the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger). I spoke to Zephyr Teachout, who teaches constitutional law at Fordham, about this worrying development. We take up the long history of anti-monopoly politics going back to the American revolution and the trust battles of the late 19th century as well as the possibility state governments can fight the new wave of consolidation. Zephyr has often written on his subject for The Nation, notably in two recent articles.
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