LBO News from Doug Henwood

Fresh audio product: Zohran and the cops, the lies of AI

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July 31, 2025 Alex Vitale on Zohran Mamdani, the NYPD, and policing generally (Nation article here) • Dwayne Monroe on the AI mania

Fresh audio product: Trump’s world, a tour d’horizon; checks and balances and elites

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July 24, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at US relations with the world under the Trump regime, specifically Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Palestine, and US self-evisceration • Samuel Moyn, author of this article, on checks & balances and the need for better elites

Fresh audio product: Trump, Trump, never enough Trump

July 17, 2025 Adam Gaffney, co-author of this article, on Trump & Co.’s cuts to health care and research • Alan Beattie tries to make sense of Trump’s nonsensical trade policy

fresh audio product: less work please

July 10, 2025 Juliet Schor, author of Four Days a Weekon experiments in reducing the workweek • Katherine Moos and Noé Martin Wiener, authors of this paper, on overwork among teachers

fresh audio product: NATO summit, private equity

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July 3, 2025 Lily Lynch, author of this report, on the NATO summit • Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Companyon the depredations of private equity

Fresh audio product: Iran, fake work

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June 26, 2025 Sohrab Ahmari, US editor of UnHerdon Iran, Israel, and the US • Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Fake Workon the ludicrous side of capitalism

NYC fiscal crisis: canonizing Felix once again

I’ve got a review on The Nation‘s site of a new documentary on the NYC fiscal crisis, co-directed and -produced by Michael Rohatyn, son of the chief imposer of austerity 50 years ago, Felix Rohatyn. It was one of the opening battles of the class war from above, and the role of liberals like Felix in engineering it should never be forgotten.

Fresh audio product: Israel’s war on Iran

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June 19, 2025 Two perspectives on Israel’s war on Iran: Mouin Rabbani on the regional/global context and Joel Schalit on Israeli society and politics

Fresh audio product: The rise of BYD, Marx in America

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June 12, 2025 Paolo Gerbaudo on the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s rise (articles here and here) • Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in Americaon the bearded one’s reception in the US

Fresh audio product: war & industry, China overtaking the US

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June 5, 2025 Laleh Khalili, author of this review, on the long relationship between the US military and industry • Kyle Chan, author of this article, on how China is surpassing the US

Fresh audio product: capitalism and its critics • abundance, neoliberal and genuine

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May 29, 2025 John Cassidy, author of Capitalism and Its Critics, on just that • Sandeep Vaheesan, author of this review, on abundance—neoliberal vs. genuine

Fresh audio product: Israel, Gaza, and Trump

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May 22, 2025 Mouin Rabbani on Israeli politics, the fate of the Palestinians, and Trump’s fundraising tour of the Middle East • Meron Rapoport, co-author of this article, on Israel’s strategy of destruction in Gaza

Fresh audio product: the dollar • why is the US always at war?

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May 15, 2025 Barry Eichengreen on why the gyrations in the value of the US dollar matter • Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan, hosts of Always at Waron why the US is always buying more weapons and bombing people

Fresh audio product: Canadian politics, elite theory

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May 8, 2025 Jeet Heer on Canadian politics and the recent election • Natasha Piano, author of Democratic Elitismon Italian elite theory

Fresh audio product: the US empire and the state of the global working class; things need to be bigger

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May 1, 2025 Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental, on the state of the US empire and the state of the global working class • Becca Rothfeld, author of All Things Are Too Smallspeaks up for bigness