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: 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)
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 16, 2025 Ilan Pappé, author of Israel on the Brink, on the ceasefire and how the deepening crisis of Israeli society could lead to something better • Jennifer Berkshire on the appalling Trump educational agenda
Fresh audio product: China, Chairman Bill
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 9, 2025 Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world • Jeet Heer, author of this review, on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.
Fresh audio product: public monuments, Trump’s Gaza scheme, Mamdani’s run for NYC mayor
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 2, 2025 Erin Thompson on the politics of public monuments as Trump talks of restoring Confederate statues • Mouin Rabbani returns for a look at Trump’s dubious Gaza peace scheme • Ted Hamm, author of Run Zohran Run!, on Mamdani’s campaign for NYC mayor
fresh audio product: recognizing Palestine, bailing out Milei
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 25, 2025 Mouin Rabbani explains what behind all these fresh diplomatic recognitions of Palestine and speculates on the future of Gaza • Ernesto Semán on the Argentine situation, and the US bailout of the libertarian Javier Milei (see NYRB article here)
Fresh audio product: neoliberalism, eugenics branch • stablecoins, and the Trump/UAE deal
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 18, 2025 Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards, on the eugenics/race science tendencies within High Church Neoliberalism • Molly White on stablecoins, and the Trump–UAE deal
Fresh audio product: transhumanism, fiscal politics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 11, 2025 Émile Torres on the tech moguls’ dream of transcending the merely human (article written with Timnit Gebru here) • Daniel Wortel-London, author of The Menace of Prosperity, on the fiscal history of NYC, and how we could do better than subsidizing the rich
Fresh audio product: Bill Buckley—his life, thought, and influence
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 28, 2025 Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America, on Bill, his thought, and his influence
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 21, 2025 Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People, on the flaws of American democracy—and some cures • Derek Guy on the evolution of upper-class men’s dress over the decades
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