Fresh audio product: the tyranny of capital, the state of trans politics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 17, 2023 Sohrab Ahmari, author of Tyranny, Inc., on the dictatorship of capital • Erin Reed, aka Erin in the Morning, on the state of trans politics
Fresh audio product: the CFA franc, US interests in Niger
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 10, 2023 Francisco Pérez of the University of Utah on the CFA franc • Caitlin Chandler, author of this Harper’s magazine article, on US interests in Niger
Fresh audio product: tensions on the Korean peninsula, pharma’s exploitation of patents and secrecy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 27, 2023 Tim Shorrock marks the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean war as tensions mount across the region • Christopher Morten on how the drug industry uses patents and secrecy to fatten its profits at the expense of patients and the broader public
Fresh audio product: Bolivia vs. Venezuela, pain for pleasure
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 20, 2023 Gabriel Hetland, author of Democracy on the Ground, on contrasts in popular participation between Bolivia and Venezuela • Leigh Cowart, author of Hurts So Good, on seeking out pain for pleasure
Fresh audio product: French riots, US collapse
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 13, 2023 Harrison Stetler on the riots in France • Peter Turchin, complexity theorist and author of End Times, on why the US is heading for a smashup
Fresh audio product: austerity & fascism, AMLO’s presidency in Mexico
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 6, 2023 Clara Mattei, author of The Capital Order, explores the links among neoclassical economics, austerity, and fascism • Edwin Ackerman, author of this article, looks at AMLO’s presidency in Mexico
Fresh audio product: the Wagner uprising in Russia, the Confederate disapora
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 29, 2023 Anatol Lieven, Eurasia director of the Quincy Institute, on Prigozhin’s aborted uprising in Russia and Putin’s status • 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
Fresh audio product: Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 15, 2023 While other shows are getting applause for interviewing Corey Robin about his excellent book on Clarence Thomas (who is very much in the headlines these days), Behind the News was there first, as it so often is. This is a rebroadcast of a show that first ran in 2019: Corey Robin on The Enigma of Clarence Thomas.
fresh audio product: Ukraine and slavery
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 8, 2023 Christopher Layne, co-author of the Harper’s magazine article “Why are we in Ukraine?” • Marcus Brown on his augmented reality exhibit that evokes the eighteenth-century Wall Street slave market
fresh audio product: varieties of correctional control, challenging mainstream economics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 1, 2023 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative talks about some underappreciated aspects of the carceral state: probation, parole, and civil commitment • Francisco Pérez of the Center for Economic Democracy on why mainstream economics is so terrible and an online course that can help civilians break through the discipline’s mystifications
Fresh audio product: rising seas meet small islands; libertarian enclaves
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 25, 2023 Tina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change, on the effects of rising oceans on small island nations • Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism, on libertarian enclaves insulated from democracy
Fresh audio product: Trump & the fascist creep, urban governance via nonprofits
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 18, 2023 Jeff Sharlet talks about his new book, The Undertow, essays on the increasingly violent and authoritarian politics on the right unleashed by Trump • Claire Dunning, author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods, on urban governance by philanthropists
Fresh audio product: Chicago politics, Ukraine & Scandinavian neutrality
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 27, 2023 Jacobin editor Micah Uetricht explains how Chicago elected a progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson • Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist and contributor to New Left Review‘s Sidecar blog on how the Ukraine war destroyed Scandinavian neutrality
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