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
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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
Fresh audio product: anti-wokeness, MTG dissents
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 7, 2025 Jodi Dean, author of this article, on why going anti-woke is very wrong • Emily Jashinsky on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s use of the word “genocide,” and other curious developments on the right
Fresh audio product: Zohran and the cops, the lies of AI
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 31, 2025 Alex Vitale on Zohran Mamdani, the NYPD, and policing generally (Nation article here) • Dwayne Monroe on the AI mania
Fresh audio product: Trump’s world, a tour d’horizon; checks and balances and elites
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 24, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at US relations with the world under the Trump regime, specifically Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Palestine, and US self-evisceration • Samuel Moyn, author of this article, on checks & balances and the need for better elites
Fresh audio product: Trump, Trump, never enough Trump
July 17, 2025 Adam Gaffney, co-author of this article, on Trump & Co.’s cuts to health care and research • Alan Beattie tries to make sense of Trump’s nonsensical trade policy
fresh audio product: less work please
July 10, 2025 Juliet Schor, author of Four Days a Week, on experiments in reducing the workweek • Katherine Moos and Noé Martin Wiener, authors of this paper, on overwork among teachers
fresh audio product: NATO summit, private equity
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 3, 2025 Lily Lynch, author of this report, on the NATO summit • Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, on the depredations of private equity
Fresh audio product: Iran, fake work
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 26, 2025 Sohrab Ahmari, US editor of UnHerd, on Iran, Israel, and the US • Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Fake Work, on the ludicrous side of capitalism
Fresh audio product: Israel’s war on Iran
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 19, 2025 Two perspectives on Israel’s war on Iran: Mouin Rabbani on the regional/global context and Joel Schalit on Israeli society and politics
Fresh audio product: The rise of BYD, Marx in America
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 12, 2025 Paolo Gerbaudo on the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s rise (articles here and here) • Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in America, on the bearded one’s reception in the US
Fresh audio product: war & industry, China overtaking the US
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 5, 2025 Laleh Khalili, author of this review, on the long relationship between the US military and industry • Kyle Chan, author of this article, on how China is surpassing the US
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