Elliot Kirschner’s new documentary, The Last Class, chronicles former Bill Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich’s final days as a university professor before retirement. We get glimpses of Reich teaching his Wealth & Poverty class at Berkeley and his interactions with some of the 40,000-plus students he’s taught over the last four decades. The film is also a deeply personal rumination on aging, retirement, and bullying, as the seventy-nine-year-old Reich wraps up his academic career.

In this candid conversation, Reich reveals himself to be perhaps the only member of a presidential cabinet in American history to openly advocate socialism. In addition to The Last Class, Reich discusses democratic socialism, capitalism’s cruelty, Donald Trump’s regime, the Democratic Party, third-party alternatives, and more. The Last Class opens theatrically June 27.