Fresh audio product: surveillance of sex workers (and others), varieties of Italian fascism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 23, 2023 Maxine Doogan and Tara Burns, contributors to this report, on how cops are snooping on sex workers, and using what they learn to spy on the rest of us • David Broder, author of Mussolini’s Grandchildren, on the fascist heritage behind Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her party
Fresh audio product: bank failures; carceral state; China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran
Just (well, a few days late) added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 16, 2023 DH comments on the bank failures • Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on the state of the carceral state • Annelle Sheline on the Chinese-brokered deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Fresh audio product: reaction and resistance in Florida and Israel
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 9, 2023 Florida follow-up: historian and union president Paul Ortiz on the DeSantis agenda and resistance to it • human rights lawyer Noa Levy on the far right agenda in Israel and resistance to it (the Ayelet Shaked Fascism ad is here)
fresh audio product: the European energy situation, the case for nationalizing the railroads
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 23, 2023 Jamie Webster of BCG on Western Europe’s energy situation • Kari Lydersen, author of this In These Times article, and Ron Kaminkow, locomotive engineer and organizer with Railroad Workers United, talk about the miseries of the industry and why it should be nationalized
Fresh audio product: Ukraine, Indian capitalism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 16, 2023 Anatol Lieven on the slim prospects for peace in Ukraine and growing bellicosity towards China • Jairus Banaji, author of this Phenomenal World article, on the politicized structure of Indian capitalism generally, and the scandal surrounding Gautam Adani (Hindenburg report here)
fresh audio product: behind the AI hype, Brazil as Lula returns
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 9, 2023 software engineer Dwayne Monroe on the reality behind the hype around ChatGPT (and the sinister implications of AI) • political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on Brazil’s political landscape as Lula returns to the presidency
Fresh audio product: the war in Ethiopia, a common South American currency?
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 2, 2023 Ann Neumann, author of this article (sorry, probably paywalled), on the bloody war in Ethiopia • two views on a proposed South American currency arrangement launched by Brazilian president Lula, one from Andres Arauz, the other from Brian Mier
Fresh audio product: British rot and the fight for abortion rights 50 years ago
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 26, 2023 Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, on that country’s trajectory of decline • Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life, talks about the fight for abortion rights in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it must be part of a larger struggle for reproductive justice
Fresh audio product: Afghanistan and port ecology
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 19, 2023 Matthieu Aikins, author of this article (among many), on the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control • Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of Oil Beach, on the ecology of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Fresh audio product: the right speaks
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 12, 2023 Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist on the GOP: the meaning of the speaker fight, and what is the base of the Freedom Caucus anyway? • Sohrab Ahmari, co-founder of Compact Magazine, offers a left–right hybrid
Encore audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 29, 2022 historian David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics • economist Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the US racial wealth gap, 1860–2020 [holiday-season encore presentation of interviews first broadcast in June]
fresh audio product: factions on the right, AI hype
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 22, 2022 Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles • Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism
Fresh audio product: class conflict on the rails and in the university
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 15, 2022 Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, author of this article, on the fight between workers and bosses in the rail industry • economist Sanjay Reddy on the fight between adjuncts and bosses in the neoliberal university
Fresh audio product: fitness in America, weak bourgeoisie in Italy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 8, 2022 Natalia Petrzela, author of Fit Nation, on the history of physical culture in the US • Paolo Gerbaudo on the weakness of the Italian bourgeoisie
Fresh audio product: right-wing school politics and black Communist women
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 1, 2022 Jennifer Berkshire on the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven’t been working for them) • Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of black Communist women’s writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s
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