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
Fresh audio product: Trump and the rest of the world, Trump and the cops
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 14, 2024 Anatol Lieven tries to divine a Trump foreign policy out of unreliable rhetoric and early appointments • Alex Vitale tries similar on Trump and criminal justice
Fresh audio product: Trump, Israeli public opinion, the meaning of Ukraine
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 7, 2024 DH comments on the Trump victory, especially the role of inflation • Dahlia Scheindlin on Israeli public opinion • James Foley and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, authors of this article, on the role of Ukraine in the Western political imagination
Fresh audio product: right’s war on an Idaho college, Israel’s goals
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 31, 2024 Laura Jedeed, author of this article, on the right’s war on North Idaho College • Mouin Rabbani on what’s driving Israel’s multiple wars, and on the state of the Axis of Resistance
Fresh audio product: arming and funding Israel, how people actually like their jobs
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 24, 2024 William Hartung, co-author of this paper, on how much aid the US has given to Israel over the last year (plus some wacky stuff on AI weapons) • sociologist Scott Schieman on his surprising research showing that people actually like their jobs
Fresh audio product: the Biden/Harris grand design, the emptying Balkans
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 17, 2024 Anatol Lieven on the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden/Harris foreign policy • Lily Lynch, author of this article, on the emptying out of the Balkans
Fresh audio product: new Marx translation, Israel after October 7
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 10, 2024 Paul North and Paul Reitter on their new translation of Marx’s Capital • Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzhaky, authors of this article, on the political culture of Israel after October 7
fresh audio product: a century of war on Palestinians, Hezbollah after Nasrallah
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 3, 2024 Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years War on Palestine, talks about Israeli settler-colonialism and its imperial patrons • Aurélie Daher looks at Hezbollah and the challenges it faces after the assassination of its leader
Fresh audio product: wildfires in Brazil, transition in Mexico
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 26, 2024 Forrest Hylton, author of this article, on wildfires in Brazil and the political impotence of Lula’s administration • Edwin Ackerman on politics in Mexico as AMLO hands over power to Claudia Sheinbaum, having engineered a controversial overhaul of the judiciary (article here)
Fresh audio product: boys talk, economists on inequality
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 19, 2024 Niobe Way, author of Rebels with a Cause, on the emotional and social lives of boys and what they’re telling us about society • Branko Milanovic, author of Visions of Inequality, reviews what economists have said about the topic over the centuries
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