Fresh audio product: Israel, Gaza, and Trump
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 22, 2025 Mouin Rabbani on Israeli politics, the fate of the Palestinians, and Trump’s fundraising tour of the Middle East • Meron Rapoport, co-author of this article, on Israel’s strategy of destruction in Gaza
Fresh audio product: the dollar • why is the US always at war?
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 15, 2025 Barry Eichengreen on why the gyrations in the value of the US dollar matter • Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan, hosts of Always at War, on why the US is always buying more weapons and bombing people
Fresh audio product: the US empire and the state of the global working class; things need to be bigger
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 1, 2025 Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental, on the state of the US empire and the state of the global working class • Becca Rothfeld, author of All Things Are Too Small, speaks up for bigness
Fresh audio product: Trump, a Constitutional product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 24, 2025 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind, on how the system crafted by the US Constitution, led to Donald Trump and has constricted our ability fight him
Fresh audio product: the lesser, meaner generation of neolibs
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 17, 2025 Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards, talks about the IQ- and race-obsessed goldbugs of second generation neoliberalism
Fresh audio product: financiers on university boards; the politics of climate
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 10, 2025 Charlie Eaton and Alina Gibadulina on the increasing prominence of hedge fund and private equity titans on elite university boards (paper here) • Malcolm Harris, author of What’s Left, on a trio of political approaches to the climate crisis
Fresh audio product: the tariffs
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 3, 2025 Jason Wade of the UAW explains the union’s endorsement of Trump’s auto tariffs • Sam Gindin, author of this article and former long-time adviser to what used to be known as the Canadian Autoworkers Union, on what issues the tariff controversy obscures
Fresh audio product: Trump & the courts, class & elections, hipster nihilists
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 27, 2025 Samuel Moyn on Trump and the courts • Chris Maisano, author of this article, on class and politics • Evgenia Kovda on hipster nihilism (article here)
Fresh audio product: professional-class liberalism (and the PMC)
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 20, 2025 Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer, editors of Mastery and Drift, on professional class liberalism • a brief reprise of a 2019 interview with Gabriel Winant on the PMC
Fresh audio product: Marx’s ethics, and the effects of the BLM demos on police budgets
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 13, 2025 Vanessa Wills, author of Marx’s Ethical Vision, on the morality behind Marxian “science” • Mathis Ebbinghaus on the effects of the summer 2020 anti-cop protests on police budgets (paper here)
Fresh audio product: Silicon Valley politics, neofeudalism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 6, 2025 Ben Tarnoff on tech worker militancy, the bosses’ crackdown and hard turn to the right • Jodi Dean, author of Capital’s Grave, on neofeudalism
Fresh audio product: worker-led organizing, the German election
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 27, 2025 Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union, on worker-led organizing (Amazon, Starbucks, etc.) • Molly O’Neal, Quincy Institute fellow, on the German election
Fresh audio product: Trump and empire, is King Donald a neoliberal?
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 20, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at the global dimensions of Trumpism • Quinn Slobodian muses on whether Trump is a neoliberal, and examines the three major strands of DOGE-ism (NYRB article here)
Fresh audio product: untangling DEI, the history of “choice”
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 13, 2025 Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò picks apart the contradictory strands of the DEI obsession • Sophia Rosenfeld, author of The Age of Choice, explores this history of that concept over the last few centuries
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