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
Fresh audio product: Christian nationalism, Trump’s sovereigntists
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 6, 2025 Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, on Christian nationalism • Jennifer Middlestadt, author of this article, on “sovereigntism,” the foreign policy of Trump et al.
Fresh audio product: broligarchs and their scribes, the New York intellectuals
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 30, 2025 Eoin Higgins, author of Owned, on tech moguls and the journalists, like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, who work for them • Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man, on the mostly male, mostly Jewish New York intellectuals
Fresh audio product: Gaza ceasefire, sex work today
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 23, 2025 Mouin Rabbani on the Gaza ceasefire and Trump’s plans for the Middle East • Angela Jones and Bernadette Barton, co-editors of Sex Work Today, on that topic
Fresh audio product: SF’s tech bro saviors, the Resnicks and California water
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 16, 2025 Laura Jedeed, author of this article, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it • Yasha Levine, co-director of Pistachio Wars, on the Resnicks and water in California
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