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: Honduras, Sudan, sewer socialism

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 4, 2025 David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard of the Progressive International on the Honduran elections • Elfadil Ibrahim on the Sudanese civil war • Eric Blanc on the lessons of Milwaukee’s decades of “sewer socialism” for Mamdani and Wilson