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
Fresh audio product: the Y2K era, S Korea’s political crisis
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 9, 2025 Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, on culture at the turn of the millennium • Tim Shorrock discusses the political crisis in South Korea
Fresh audio product: best of 2024
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 2, 2025 A look back at highlights of 2024. Three interviews on Israel’s many wars: Rashid Khalidi and Pankaj Mishra with a historical perspective, and Annelle Sheline adds a former insider’s view. Then, Aziz Rana on the awfulness of the US constitution, Anna Kornbluh with a cultural critique of immediacy, and Brooke Harrington on the offshore money-hiding racket. Concluding with a memorial to Jane McAlevey.
Fresh audio product: a couple of Joes, the unchanging Ivies
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 26, 2024 Branko Marcetic, author of Yesterday’s Man, says farewell to Joe Biden (and takes some shots at Joe Scarborough too) • Santiago Pérez, co-author of this paper, on how little the class composition of elite college student bodies have changed
Fresh audio product: Syria, COP29
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 19, 2024 Trita Parsi and Joshua Landis analyze what’s been going on in Syria • Tina Gerhardt reviews the annual UN climate conference, COP29, where little happened
Fresh audio product: right-wing populism, unrest in Georgia
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 5, 2024 Larry Bartels, author of this article, on the roots of right-wing “populism” • Sopo Japaridze, co-author of this article, on the Georgian brouhaha
Fresh audio product: offshore wealth, “Marxist” gov in Sri Lanka?
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 28, 2024 Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore, on how and where the mega-rich stash their cash • Mahendran Thiruvarangan on a new leftish government in Sri Lanka
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