Fresh audio product: the Wagner uprising in Russia, the Confederate disapora
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 29, 2023 Anatol Lieven, Eurasia director of the Quincy Institute, on Prigozhin’s aborted uprising in Russia and Putin’s status • Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas
Neoliberalism right and left
This is the text of a talk I gave at New York City DSA’s Night School, June 27, 2023. This was the concluding session of a series, Socialism in America, organized by the chapter’s Political Education Committee, of which I’m a member. Also speaking: Raina Lipsitz and Jamie Peck. The graphics were shown as slides during the talk. Neoliberalism is a funny word. True, it’s often used as an epithet by people who don’t really know what it means, which makes it easy for proponents to deny the label. It’s curious how often… Read More
Fresh audio product: Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 15, 2023 While other shows are getting applause for interviewing Corey Robin about his excellent book on Clarence Thomas (who is very much in the headlines these days), Behind the News was there first, as it so often is. This is a rebroadcast of a show that first ran in 2019: Corey Robin on The Enigma of Clarence Thomas.
fresh audio product: Ukraine and slavery
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 8, 2023 Christopher Layne, co-author of the Harper’s magazine article “Why are we in Ukraine?” • Marcus Brown on his augmented reality exhibit that evokes the eighteenth-century Wall Street slave market
fresh audio product: varieties of correctional control, challenging mainstream economics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 1, 2023 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative talks about some underappreciated aspects of the carceral state: probation, parole, and civil commitment • Francisco Pérez of the Center for Economic Democracy on why mainstream economics is so terrible and an online course that can help civilians break through the discipline’s mystifications
LBO News from Doug Henwood 