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
Fresh audio product: durability of slaveholder wealth, a conservative looks at the election, effects of teachers’ strikes
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 12, 2024 Neil Sehgal, co-author of this paper, on the durability of slaveholder wealth, via a look at Congress • Emily Jashinsky with a conservative’s view of the election • Melissa Lyon, co-author of this paper, on the effects of teachers’ strikes
fresh audio product: German neo-Nazis, the superrich
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 5, 2024 Robert Pausch of Die Zeit on the far right’s strong showing in German regional elections • Rob Larson, author of Mastering the Universe, looks at the superrich
Fresh audio product: upsurge in Bangladesh, writing the Indian constitution
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 29, 2024 Naomi Hossain explains the uprising in Bangladesh that deposed PM Shekih Hasina • Sandipto Dasgupta, author of Legalizing the Revolution, examines the transformation of India from colony to nation through the exercise of constitution-writing
Fresh audio product: better approach to China, reviewing Petro in Colombia
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 22, 2024 Jake Werner on a progressive China policy (paper here) • Gabriel Hetland, author of this article, on the record of Colombian president Gustavo Petro, a leftist trying to govern a deeply conservative country
Fresh audio product: a look at Jeff Yass, another look at the “pro-worker” GOP
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 8, 2024 Arielle Klagsbrun of the All Eyes on Yass Campaign on the insufficiently known right-wing funder Jeff Yass • Sohrab Ahmari and Hamilton Nolan debate the existence, real or imagined, of pro-worker Republicans
Fresh audio product: World Court v Israel, crypto throwing money at politicians, psychoanalyzing Biden
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 1, 2024 Heidi Matthews analyzes the World Court’s declaration of Israel’s occupations illegal • Molly White on how crypto is spending its money in politics • Nausicaa Renner psychoanalyzes Joe Biden (article here)
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)
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