Fresh audio product: the IMF and debt, Asian Americans
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 28, 2022 David Adler of the Progressive International on an impending debt crisis, with an emphasis on the role of the IMF (Guardian article here). • Sudip Bhattacharya on the Asian American population: its diversity, its unity, its politics
Fresh audio product: black radicalism, Viktor Orbán
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 21, 2022 Donna Murch, author of Assata Taught Me, on black radical politics from the Panthers to the Movement for Black Lives • Kyle Shybunko, author of this piece, on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, a hero to many on the American right
Fresh audio product: prison and postliberalism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 14, 2022 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around cash bail in New York) • historian James Chappel, author of this article, on postliberalism, notably the reactionary Catholic law prof Adrian Vermeule (a contributing editor of the would-be left–right hybrid magazine, Compact)
Fresh audio product: global reconfiguration and nukes
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 7, 2022 Vijay Prashad on the reconfigurations of global power prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine • Charles Komanoff, author of this Nation article, on why it’s a bad idea to shut nuclear power plants
Fresh audio product: Yemen and gendering
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 31, 2022 Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute, author of this policy brief on the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia’s brutal war on that country • Natalia Petrzela, author of this column, on how we went from Muscle Beach to gender neutral cosmetics products
Fresh audio product: Ukraine, libraries, Cold War fiction
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 24, 2022 Richard Seymour, author of this article, on the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine • Emily Drabinski on the war against libraries • Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Cold War fiction [info on Current Affairs]
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 17, 2022 Lily Geismer, author of Left Behind, on the market-friendly New Democrats, from the 1970s into the 1990s and beyond • Barry Eichengreen on the role of the dollar and threats to its pre-eminence.
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 10, 2022 Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket • Zongyuan Zoe Liu, co-author of this article, on sanctions and the global pre-eminence of the US dollar
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 3, 2022 Anatol Lieven on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine • Alyssa Giachino and Derek Seidman, among the authors of this report, on private equity and fossil fuels
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 24, 2022 Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money, on the damage done by over a decade of hyper-easy monetary policy from the Fed • Lea Ypi, a political philsopher and author of Free, on growing up in the last days of Communist Albania and the early days of its neoliberal successor
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 17, 2022 Toronto-based activist and organizer John Clarke on the politics and personnel behind the Ottawa convoy • Dave Zirin on racism in the NFL (and Brian Flores’s lawsuit over it) • Justine Medina on working at Amazon and trying to unionize it
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 10, 2022 Thomas Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom, authors of The Long Year: A 2020 Reader, on the common and varied impacts of the pandemic around the world • Laura Kipnis, author of Love in the Time of Contagion, on the challenges of living together, a steep climb even in the best of times
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 3, 2022 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison sickens and kills people • Terry Kupers, from a 2013 interview, on the effects of solitary confinement on mental health • refinery worker and union VP BK White talks about worker safety and health at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 27, 2022 Peter Goodman, author of Davos Man, on plutocrats and their pretensions • Vijay Prashad, director of The Tricontinental, outlines a plan to save the world, essentially from Davos Man
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