Fresh audio product: what’s driving Israel’s war on Gaza, what’s with philanthropy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 14, 2023 Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, on what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza • Amy Schiller, author of The Price of Humanity, on what’s wrong with philanthropy and how to fix it
Fresh audio product: Gaza in a global context, Israeli spying on US campuses, fascism: this year’s model
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 7, 2023 Trita Parsi on the global context of the Gaza war • James Bamford, author of this article, on how Israel spies on US campuses • Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, on the latest iteration of the rough beast
Fresh audio product: political economy—the feline angle; understanding capitalism to smash it
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 30, 2023 Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats, on political economy and the human–feline relationship • Michael Zweig, author of Class, Race, and Gender, on understanding capitalism in order to transform it
Fresh audio product: the mind of the “ecoterrorist,” the collective mind of Israel
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 16, 2023 Christopher Ketcham, author of this Harper’s article, looks inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist” • Neve Gordon on what in Israeli society leads to bombing hospitals
Fresh audio product: wars, economic policy preferences
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 9, 2023 Anatol Lieven on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of US power • Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of this paper, on class differences in economic policy preferences (predistributionist vs. redistributionist)
Fresh audio product: Arab citizens of Israel and Israel’s plans for Gaza; Nagorno-Karabakh and the latest version of the new world disorder
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 2, 2023 Amjad Iraqi on what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and when what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza • Georgi Derluguian (author of this article) on how the expulsion of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is an example of the latest iteration of the new world disorder
Fresh audio product: war in Gaza, the life and work of Joan Didion
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 26, 2023 Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on her life and work
Fresh audio product: UAW strike strategy, corps making money of publicly financed research
October 19, 2023 Stephanie Ross on the UAW’s innovative strike strategy against the Big Three automakers • Christopher Morten and Amy Kapczynski on how Corporate America profits off publicly funded research and how to stop them from doing that [apologies for lack of Gaza material—plenty due in coming weeks]
Fresh audio product: failed protests, Israel–Palestine
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 12, 2023 Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, on the decade of protest movements that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine
Fresh audio product: Haiti
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 5, 2023 Two views of Haiti in light of the UN’s approval of the deployment of a Kenyan-led mission to control gang violence there: Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Robert Fatton of the University of Virginia
Fresh audio product: more on Niger, biology and sexuality
Just posted to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 28, 2023 Samar Al-Bulushi on the coup in Niger, political unrest in France’s former colonies in Africa, and the US-led “war on terror” on that continent • Joanna Wuest, author of Born This Way, on the biology of sexuality
Fresh audio product: how sick is capitalism?
Just posted to my radio archive (click on date for link) September 21, 2023 Aaron Benenav, sociologist and frequent contributor to New Left Review, and Seth Ackerman, an editor at Jacobin and author of this article, discuss the long-term health of capitalism: is stagnation really the problem?
Fresh audio product: postliberalism and new global configurations of power
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 14, 2023 Jodi Dean, author of this review, on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. • Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute on the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power
Fresh audio product: the UPS–Teamster deal, Cold War liberalism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 7, 2023 Sam Gindin, writer and activist on labor issues, on the shortcomings of the UPS–Teamster deal (original article here, follow-up here) • Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself, on how the Cold War crushed the tendency’s emancipatory side
LBO News from Doug Henwood 