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Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad — 101 episodes

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Love and Social Justice: Reclaiming Connection in Capitalist Society

2

Epstein and The Thrill of Domination

3

The Violent Crimes of Lost, Angry Men

4

Today's Family Structure Extolled and Endangered

5

The State of Women in the U.S. in 2025

6

If Children Are Our Future, Americans Are out of Luck

7

Labors of Love

8

A Different Kind of Power

9

Epstein — A Marriage of Capitalist Corruption and Misogyny

10

Social Reproduction Theory Illuminates the Issues of Our Time

11

Out With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani's Win is for All

12

Social Reproduction Theory: A Tool for Changing U.S. Society

13

How Economic Transformations Impact America's Mental Health

14

Can The Left Deal With America's Mental Health Crisis?

15

Why Some Americans Still Support Trump

16

The Love Lost by the Left

17

How Capitalism Breeds Sociopathic Mental Illness

18

What's In Store For Women Under Trump?

19

What's Love Got to Do With It?

20

Marriage and Capitalism

21

Prolific Rapists Exposed and Prosecuted: Why Do These Men Rape?

22

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Trump and his Supporters

23

Patriarchy and Capitalism: Joint Partners in Sexual Abuse

24

Why Did Trump Win?

25

History of Childhood

26

Whole Societies Can Be In Denial, Ours Certainly Is...

27

A Crime of Domination, Denial of Need & Dis-Connection from Other Human Beings

28

Birth Strike in the USA

29

The Spirit Level of the United States

30

Whither Family-Withered Families

31

Marriage Is No Longer A Rite of Passage in American Adulthood

32

A Revolution in the Family Is Already Happening

33

Trump As Totem

34

Voluntary Childlessness Is A Worldwide Trend. Why?

35

Women's Traditional Labor, Skills and Strengths Are Learned Behaviors

36

The Family - Does It Work? Did It Ever?

37

"The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand?

38

How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America?

39

World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard

40

Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development

41

Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism

42

Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 2 of 2

43

Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 1 of 2

44

Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?

45

What Are Some Life Supports for America's Failing Isolated Nuclear Families?

46

US Empire Falls. Families Fail? Why?

47

Capitalism's Impact on Our Personal Lives

48

BRICS & The End of US Dominance

49

Signs of a Declining Empire

50

All Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception

51

The Impact of Gender Roles - Care Work, Mass Violence & the Way Forward

52

Where do Gender Roles Come From?

53

Inflation & Manufactured Poverty

54

What Are The Personal Costs of Inflation?

55

Ukraine War & Our Coping Mechanisms

56

Waking Up to the Falling American Empire

57

Broken Social Bonds

58

How Disconnection Harms Us

59

Family - A Feminist, Class Analysis

60

Individualism is a Capitalist Deception

61

Adoring the Monarchy

62

System-Driven Loneliness

63

Trauma & Survival Mechanisms

64

United We Win, Divided We Fall

65

Roe v. Wade Overturned - How Did We Get Here?

66

US Militarism & Domestic Terrorism

67

America's Problem With Mass Shootings - An Analysis of Uvalde

68

Connection - The Foundation of Mental Health

69

The Right vs. Gender Freedom

70

Mental Health in a Profit-Driven, Isolated Society

71

The Business of Mental Health

72

Why The Women's Liberation Movement Fractured

73

The Origins of Racism - An Untold History

74

Sex Work - A Marxian Class Analysis

75

Political Right v.s. Abortion Rights

76

How Americans Cope With Falling Living Standards

77

Capitalism and Opioids - A Deadly Combination

78

Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Unity

79

Addiction and Desperation

80

What Can Americans Do To Be Happier?

81

US Workers Strike

82

Americans Face Mass Evictions

83

Why Does the US Lead the World in Rape?

84

Capitalism & Patriarchy - Cuomo, Cosby, Weinstein & Epstein

85

The Labor History We Need to Celebrate - The One We Never Hear About

86

Why Are 9.2 Million US Jobs Open?

87

Cruel Optimism

88

Why Has Britney Spears' Pain Riveted America?

89

Class Transformation in the Household

90

What is Class?

91

Identity Politics - Class Politics

92

Violence - A Shield for Emotional Vulnerability

93

Children in the US Today

94

The American Family

95

The Socialist Feminist Way To Beat the NRA and Militarism

96

Capitalism's Connection to America's Mass Shootings

97

Should Andrew Cuomo be Impeached?

98

Caring: The Crucial Infrastructure of Human Life

99

Shelter As a Human Right

100

Healthy Food- A Basic Need for Human Survival

101

Water is a Human Right