Fresh audio product: French elections, the world that launched Vance, power
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 25, 2024 Cole Stangler on the monumentally inconclusive French elections • David Palumbo-Liu on the Silicon Valley world that launched JD Vance as a politician • a brief bit from Jane McAlevey on power
Fresh audio product: Vance, fake friend of the working class; American political parties are weird
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 18, 2024 Brandon Mancilla of the UAW looks behind the GOP’s pro-worker facade • Adam Hilton, author of True Blues, on the bizarre nature of the US political party system
Fresh audio product: British and Iranian elections, remembering Jane McAlevey
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 11, 2024 Richard Seymour discusses the British election (Sidecar article here) • Trita Parsi, the Iranian election • remembering Jane McAlevey with a 2017 BtN interview excerpt (catalog of interviews here)
Jane McAlevey: the Behind the News interviews
Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and frequent BtN guest, died on July 7. To remember her, I ran an excerpt from a March 2017 interview with her. Here’s what I said to introduce the interview, and below that is a list of her appearances on the show. The dates are links to the entry in my radio archive. Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and human dynamo, who appeared on this show nine times over the years, starting in 2012, died on Sunday, July 7, at the age of 59. I met Jane… Read More
Fresh audio product: Hamas is winning, updates on the US carceral state
Just added to my radio archive (after a week off): July 4, 2024 Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning (article here) • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and other news on crime & punishment (report here)
fresh audio product: Israel and its Arab neighbors, school scheming
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 20, 2024 Steven Simon on Israel and the Arab states’ relations with it • Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars, on the right-wing’s latest educational ploys (and here’s Marcus Brown’s website that I mentioned in the intro)
fresh audio product: Mexico and radicals on the run
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 13, 2024 Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity (Sidecar piece here) • Joel Whitney, author of Flights, on radicals’ and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIA
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 6, 2024 Siddhartha Deb, author of Twilight Prisoners, on the Hindu right and its poor showing in India’s elections • Sean Jacobs, New School prof and publisher of Africa Is a Country, on the ANC’s poor showing in South Africa’s elections
Fresh audio product: the Constitution cult
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 30, 2024 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy but we worship it anyway
Fresh audio product: Gaza and the larger political context; why people hate inflation
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 23, 2024 Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict • Stefanie Stantcheva on why people hate inflation (papers here and here)
Fresh audio product: a resignation on principle and changing relations of production in Hollywood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 16, 2024 Annelle Sheline on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here) • Daniel Bessner, author of this Harper’s cover story, on the debasement of screenwriting in Hollywood
Fresh audio product: nativist neoliberalism, the Alabama ruling class
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 9, 2024 Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism (paywalled article here)
Fresh audio product: criminalization of protest, hidden agenda behind anti-trans panic
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 2, 2024 Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
Fresh audio product: professor canceled for an article, the lingering effects of the slavocracy in the South, the Confederate diaspora
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 25, 2024 Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas (from a June 2023 interview)
Fresh audio product: Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the rise of technofeudalism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 18, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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