Aliens Like Us

From the start of the EP podcast in 2006, the magazine In These Times occasionally has published edited transcripts of my podcast interviews. If they're controversial, that's only in the conventional sense of things. Not this time. Joel Bleifuss, editor and publisher of the magazine, like me, believes UFOs are a serious subject. After listening to this recent podcast on UFOs Joel asked to publish a transcript. I said sure. But the idea of publishing a discussion about UFOs caused an in-house brouhaha among editors. (I'd love to quote some comments for their gag quotient but out of respect for privacy and fair play I can't.) Joel didn't decide until the last moment whether he'd print the piece, though he did an outstanding job editing it and had showed it to me just so "someone else got a chance to see it." He made a highly courageous decision to go ahead and publish — I think he deserves a lot of credit. Hopefully it may mean a net gain for In These Times subscriptions! The article is here. Trust me, UFOs are not a bourgeois plot...