The politics of Star Wars explained: Author Stephen Kent joins the show to break down the big-picture themes we can take away from Star Wars. As he explains in the upcoming book HOW THE FORCE CAN FIX THE WORLD, the Star Wars saga's "politics" aren't a partisan weapon but are really more about hope, choice, humility, empathy, redemption, balance, and fear.

Stephen Kent, a spokesman for the D.C.-based public relations firm Young Voices, told me libertarians like him have “an opportunity to drop ‘classical’ from the way we describe our liberalism and just step in as the champions of liberal thought and the open society.”

Stephen Kent on the way young people learn to make change with Confederate monuments will have a lasting impact

Bernie Sanders could win the White House, but he would have to get real about America’s right of center populist leanings.