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
Fresh audio product: rising seas meet small islands; libertarian enclaves
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 25, 2023 Tina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change, on the effects of rising oceans on small island nations • Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism, on libertarian enclaves insulated from democracy
Fresh audio product: Trump & the fascist creep, urban governance via nonprofits
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 18, 2023 Jeff Sharlet talks about his new book, The Undertow, essays on the increasingly violent and authoritarian politics on the right unleashed by Trump • Claire Dunning, author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods, on urban governance by philanthropists
Fresh audio product: Chicago politics, Ukraine & Scandinavian neutrality
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 27, 2023 Jacobin editor Micah Uetricht explains how Chicago elected a progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson • Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist and contributor to New Left Review‘s Sidecar blog on how the Ukraine war destroyed Scandinavian neutrality
Fresh audio product: can we save the climate before overthrowing capitalism?, getting the EPA to enforce the Clean Water Act
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 20, 2023 economist Josh Mason of John Jay College on how we can save the climate before we get to overthrowing capitalism • Jen Duggan of the Environmental Integrity Initiative on a lawsuit to get the EPA to enforce the Clean Water Act
Fresh audio product: discard the hair shirts—for an alternative hedonism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 13, 2023 philosopher Kate Soper talks about her book, Post-Growth Living: For An Alternative Hedonism, just out in paperback: living on less but without the hair-shirtism
Fresh audio product: Israeli collusion with Trump, the Rutgers labor battle
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 6, 2023 James Bamford, author of this article in The Nation (and of the just published Spyfail) on Israeli collusion with Donald Trump in 2016 • Donna Murch, associate professor of history at Rutgers and president of the New Brunswick campus’s faculty union, on why the teaching staff is on the verge of a strike and why it matters well beyond that institution
Fresh audio product: Israeli uprising and AI
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 30, 2023 writer and political adviser Nimrod Flaschenberg discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe revisits the (useful) hype around ChatGPT
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)
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