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
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.
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