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
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
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