Fresh audio product: ravaging East New York, financing schools
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
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
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
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
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
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
Fresh audio product: war on immigrants, war on Lebanon
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
January 22, 2026 David Bier of the Cato Institute on what’s behind Trump’s war on immigrants • Aurélie Daher on the state of Hezbollah and why Israel is bombing Lebanon
Fresh audio product: Venezuela from several angles
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
January 15, 2026 Forrest Hylton on Venezuela, past, present, and future
fresh audio product: some of the best of 2025
just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
December 25, 2025 some of the best of 2025: Emile Torres on the posthumanists • Quinn Slobodian on eugenics and neoliberalism • Femi Taiwo on DEI and the war on it • Kristin Du Mez on white Christian nationalism • Anatol Lieven on the Trumpian worldview • Laleh Khalili on the relationship between the Pentagon and US capitalism • and Susannah Glickman on similar
fresh audio product: the problem of lithium, the problem of Nature
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
December 18, 2025 Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, on the complications of using lithium batteries to green our future (think tank here) • Alyssa Battistoni, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
Fresh audio product: Trump’s strategic vision, turning the executive branch into a PE firm
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
December 11, 2025 Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy • Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
Fresh audio product: what made the GOP what it is today?
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
November 20, 2025 Paul Heideman, author of Rogue Elephant, on how the Republican party went from a staid vehicle of American business to the frothy lunacy of today
Fresh audio product: Sudan, Japan
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
November 13, 2025 Mosaab Baba, author of this article, on what’s behind the horrendous civil war in Sudan • Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who’s been living in Japan for almost 40 years, on that country’s reactionary new Prime Minister
Fresh audio product: tech moves right, South American politics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
October 30, 2025 Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage, on the rightward move of the Silicon Valley elite • Forrest Hylton conducts a political tour d’horizon of South America
Fresh audio product: the Zoomer tech bros, the new arms merchants
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link):
October 23, 2025 Margaux MacColl, co-author of a series of articles in the SF Standard, on the Zoomer tech bros • Susannah Glickman on the new arms makers who want to disrupt the legacy prime contractors (NYRB article here)
LBO News from Doug Henwood 