fresh audio product: imperialism and the homeland
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May 7, 2026 excerpts from an event, Imperialism and the Homeland, sponsored by the NYC DSA’s Academy for Socialist Education on the domestic and foreign aspects of Trumpism, featuring historians Nikhil Pal Singh and Greg Grandin, moderated by the Academy’s Gaya Sriskanthan
fresh audio product: yuppies, Iran
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April 30, 2026 Dylan Gottlieb, author of Yuppies, on that often risible but pioneering social formation • Ervand Abrahamian looks at the politics of Iran, a country under siege
fresh audio product: Elon’s world and ours
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April 23, 2026 Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, on Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours
fresh audio product: Orban’s humiliation in Hungary
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April 16, 2026 Hungary’s long-serving authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orban was defeated in an April 12 election. Two views of what that means: historian Kyle Shybunko and independent scholar Anita Zsurzsán
Fresh audio product: corruptions of DC, crypto in the era of Trump
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April 9, 2026 Andrew Cockburn, author of Washington Is Burning, on “the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation’s political system” • Hadas Thier, author of this article, on crypto in the age of Trump
Fresh audio product: class/identity, federal layoffs & black women
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March 19, 2026 Nancy Fraser goes beyond the class/identity disputes • Natalie Y. Moore on the effects of federal layoffs on black women (article here)
Fresh audio product: Trump’s Homeland Empire
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March 12, 2026 historian Nikhil Pal Singh, author of this article, talks about how the Trump regime weaves foreign and domestic policy into a single domain of impunity, Homeland Empire
fresh audio product: Iran
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March 5, 2026 Behrooz Ghamari, author of The Long War on Iran, on the politics and culture of the country • Anatol Lieven on the effects of the war on Iran on the region and world
Fresh audio product: ravaging East New York, financing schools
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February 12, 2026 Stacy Horn, author of The Killing Fields of East New York, on the damage mortgage fraud did to that neighborhood • David Backer, author of As Public as Possible, on how we finance schools and how we could do better
Fresh audio product: Marx, Greenland
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February 5, 2026 David Harvey on his new book, The Story of Capital • excerpt from Mark Carney’s Davos speech • Adam Federman on Trump’s Greenland obsession
Fresh audio product: two looks at the right—respectables vs. deplorables, and MAGA’s intellectuals
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January 29, 2026 David Austin Walsh, author of Taking America Back, on the relationship between the kooks and respectables on the right • Laura Field, author of Furious Minds, on the intellectual wing of Trumpism
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