The topics covered were:
- the student walkouts over gun control
- Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump and how they should both take DNA tests
- Native American rights as hunter-gatherers and grazing rights, plus the rights of all to have access to public lands.
- cultural appropriation and identity politics
- campaign funding for local candidates by out-of-state entities
- Politics in Academe
- Chomsky and politics in the humanities.
- Core and Periphery and the brain drain
