fresh audio product: the world that right-wing Christian women made
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 24, 2026 Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Live Laugh Love, on the world of right-wing evangelical Christian women
fresh audio product: vouchers, sex workers
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 17, 2026 Jennifer Berkshire talks about the anti-school voucher backlash (articles here and here) • Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, on what that formation brings to politics
fresh audio product: AI, Zinn
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 10, 2026 Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete, on the terrors and possible promise of AI • Dave Zirin on Howard Zinn, the subject of his new biography
Alex Vitale imagines a postcarceral future
This interview was first broadcast on Doug Henwood’s show, Behind the News, on KPFA, Berkeley, on September 3, 2026, and circulated to the podcast universe shortly after. The full archive of BtN, going back to 2002, can be found here. Its Apple Podcasts page is here. Doug Henwood Next, cops and jails. More precisely how to get rid of them and what a postcarceral future might look like. Here to imagine that for us is Alex Vitale. Alex is a professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project… Read More
fresh audio product: Trump’s Venezuela oil grab, life after cops and jails
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 3, 2026 Alejandro Velasco on Trump’s oil grab in Venezuela • Alex Vitale on a post-carceral future
fresh audio product: slavery, postcarbon
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 27, 2026 David McNally, author of Slavery and Capitalism, on the political economy of the institution • Billy Fleming, author of Building Postcarbon Futures, on how to get from here to there
fresh audio product: Israel’s war on Lebanon; nonstandard forms of service work
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 20, 2026 Aurélie Daher on the destruction Israel is visiting upon southern Lebanon • Annie McClanahan, author of Beneath the Wage, on nonstandard forms of work and compensation
Fresh audio product: AI, Ukraine
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 13, 2026 Jodi Dean, who has a new Substack on the issue, on why AI is so terrible • Anatol Lieven on the bloody stalemate that is the Russia–Ukraine war (Sidecar piece here)
fresh audio product:
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 6, 2026 Aditya Nigam on the Cockroach movement in India • Gerald Epstein and Juliet Schor on a detailed set of proposals to transform the US economy (papers here)
fresh audio product: the private equity racket
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 9, 2026 Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class, on the private equity racket—who they are, what they do
fresh audio product: the Iran negotiations
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 25, 2026 two views from BtN regulars on the US–Iran negotiations: Anatol Lieven and Mouin Rabbani
fresh audio product: cops, sex
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 18, 2026 Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, on how the political heft of cops allows them to get away with murder • Angela Jones, author of Sex in Public, on how the social and political shape our sexual lives (and vice versa)
fresh audio product: against money, hating theory
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 11, 2026 J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, authors of Against Money, explain that curious stuff and enumerate its problems • Moira Weigel explains why the right hates Theory (October article here)
fresh audio product: Pope Leo & Peru • the Cultural Marxist conspiracy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 28, 2026 Greg Grandin, author of this article, on how Pope Leo was shaped by his time in Peru • AJA Woods, author of The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, on how the right sees the Frankfurt School as the root of modern decay
