David Coates

Answering Back

Answering Back: The Living Book is a resource to keep you up-to-date as you fight for a better America. The book consists of 10 chapters, each covering a major issue in today’s political debates. Additional articles on these topics are regularly added to the book’s website, so it continues to live on. Here you will find the latest storylines, data sets, and literature references necessary to keep you fully up to speed with this incredibly rapidly changing and important set of political struggles.

I encourage you to respond to any and all of the articles. – David Coates

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January 29, 2012

Chapter 10: The Real Causes of the Financial Meltdown

Republican Truth and Real Truth: GSEs and the Housing Bubble

  In any wars of words in an election season, truth is often an early casualty. The war of words between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich is no exception. read more »
January 17, 2012

Chapter 3: The Wonders of Trickle-Down Economics

Republican Politics and the Unemployment Conundrum

  In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the world discovered by Alice was one in which every aspect of reality was inverted. Big things were small. Small things grew big. The Cheshire cat faded into a grin. read more »
January 2, 2012

Chapter 1: A Call to Arms

Time to Choose, America!

It is likely that 2012 will be long remembered as a watershed year in America politics. It certainly needs to be. read more »
December 12, 2011

Chapter 10: The Real Causes of the Financial Meltdown

Calling Progressive Economists into the Public Square

  “At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1910)[1] Economists are the new public intellectuals of the age. read more »
November 18, 2011

Chapter 10: The Real Causes of the Financial Meltdown

Banker power trumping Democratic Power: the crisis on two continents

  We live in troubled and ironic times. The times are certainly troubled. The IMF’s Managing Director has recently spoken with some justification of a looming “lost decade” for the global economy read more »
October 31, 2011

Chapter 4: Cutting Welfare to Help the Poor

Poverty Amid Plenty – America’s Continuing Shame

  The current wave of mass protest against Wall Street excess has completely reframed the public conversation in the United States.  The “deficit problem” with which Washington was consumed in the first half of 2011 has not vanished from the political agenda, read more »
October 12, 2011

Chapter 3: Making the Case for Managed Trade

Trade Policy: Countering the Walmart Effect

  Bipartisanship in Washington is rare these days, but it does occasionally surface. It did this week, when the Senate passed the “Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act”(S.1619) – the one sponsored by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and co-sponsored by 22 other Senators, including five Republicans.[1] read more »
September 28, 2011

Chapter 1: A Call to Arms

Helping Obama Rediscover His Groove

  Thus far 2011 has not been a good year for progressives. The daily sight of the White House seeking elusive accommodations with Tea Party-inspired Congressional Republicans has not been an edifying one. Prior to and during the debt ceiling crisis, all the drive, all the issue framing, all the assertiveness in the pursuit of. . . read more »
September 22, 2011

Chapter 1: A Call to Arms

Making the Progressive Case

Making the Progressive Case - A three part video lecture read more »
September 14, 2011

Chapter 1: The Financial Meltdown and the Obama Response

Doing Two Things at Once: Jobs and Housing as Routes Out of Recession?

  Maybe it’s because of what I see every morning from my kitchen window– the view over coffee of my former neighbor’s foreclosed and rapidly deteriorating home – that the Obama Administration’s housing policy so depresses me. Or maybe what depresses me is the housing policy itself. read more »

Welcome

Clip Selection

  1. Welcome
  2. Making the Progressive Case Towards a Stronger U.S. Economy.
  3. Midterm Election Analysis: Robert Parry
  4. Keynote Speech
  5. Capitalism Talk
  6. Political Roundtable with Mike Collins
  7. Talking health care politics with Dr. Steve Feldman
  8. Mike Collins Interview on "Charlotte Talks"
  9. WUNC "State of Things" interview on immigration
  10. WFDD interview on immigration topics
  11. A Liberal Toolkit (book) - Introduction

Midterm Election Analysis, Part 1. Robert Parry of ConsortiumNews sees the election as a continuation of Reaganism; Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest has 3 points of advice for Democrats. Parry is a veteran Washington-based journalist who traces the latest Democratic loss to Reagan's depiction of government and liberals as evil. We talk about the failure of Obama and the Democrats to clearly blame Bush and the Republicans for creating the mess that led to bailouts and the stimulus bill, and the larger failure of the media to offer context and to contradict the misleading narrative offered by the GOP mainline and Tea Party candidates that the deficits are all Obama's fault. (more at peterbcollins.com)

Source: http://peterbcollins.com/2010/11/05/midterm-election-analysis-robert-parry-and-prof-david-coates/

Last month, we did two shows on political conversation, one from the perspective of a liberal, and one from the conservative standpoint. Both conversations were enlightening and interesting, and each guest expressed interest in talking to each other. So today, we'll do just that. Brenton Stransky, author of The Young Conservative’s Field Guide and Dr. David Coates, author of Answering Back: A Liberal Toolkit will join us, together, to talk about their respective political philosophies.

Guests:
Brenton Stransky - Co-author, The Young Conservative’s Field Guide and a Financial Consultant
Dr. David Coates - Author, Answering Back and Chair, Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University

Source: http://wfae.org/wfae/18_93_0.cfm?do=detail&id=12230

Our health care system is capable of both modern miracles and appalling failures. What should we do to make the system better and what can you do to makes sure you're getting the best health care possible? Steve breaks it down with experts from the trenches. Join us to find out about making a healthier medical system and for a healthier you.

Doctors are trained to make the right diagnosis and prescribe the right treatment; satisfying patients sometimes gets lost in the process. Susan Keane Baker, author of "Managing Patient Expectations," tells us what physicians and patients should be doing to improve patients' satisfaction.

Source: http://webtalkradio.net/shows/getting-better-health-care/

We live in an age of ever-increasing political divisiveness and our rhetoric reflects that. No matter the topic- trickle-down economics, welfare, social security, health care, immigration control, war, economics- our discourse seems to degenerate into shouting matches using jargon. Wouldn’t we benefit from a different kind of discussion? Of course. And in his book, Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments, David Coates takes a stab at that. We hear what he has to say. Also be sure to join us next Thursday, July 29th for a discussion with the authors of The Young Conservative's Field Guide.

Guest
Dr. David Coates - Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies, Wake Forest University and Author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments

Source: http://www.wfae.org/wfae/18_93_0.cfm?do=detail&id=12110

Between 1990 and 2005 an average of 1 million immigrants per year came legally into this country. In 2005 the number of illegal immigrants was estimated at just over 11 million. Making the distinction between legal and illegal immigration is just one of the problems vexing national, state and local policy makers. Legality matters to social services, education and national security, as well as to highly charged issues of national identity and values. Noah Pickus, from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in conjunction with the Brookings Institute, recently convened an immigration policy roundtable to discuss the history and future of immigration reform in The United States. He joins Wake Forest Professors David Coates and Peter Siavelis, editors of the new book, "Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know," to bring the conversation on-air with host Frank Stasio.

Source: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot1124abc09.mp3/view

A Conversation with Professor David Coates
It's a contentious topic shaped largely by partisan lines. Immigration, and immigration reform, might be taking a back seat to health care, the economy and the war in Afghanistan; for now. Wake Forest University Professor David Coates holds the World Chair in Anglo-American Studies. He's worked on more than two dozen books, writing and editing. His latest project, for which he served as an editor it titled Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know. Coates sat down with WFDD's Jeff Tiberii to discuss reform, his personal connection to the issue, and the start of the book.

Source: http://wfdd.org/wfddnews/wfddnews.php/story2075/ts1254925884

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