Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 21, 2025 Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People, on the flaws of American democracy—and some cures • Derek Guy on the evolution of upper-class men’s dress over the decades
Fresh audio product: Trump, a Constitutional product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 24, 2025 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind, on how the system crafted by the US Constitution, led to Donald Trump and has constricted our ability fight him
Fresh audio product: best of 2024
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 2, 2025 A look back at highlights of 2024. Three interviews on Israel’s many wars: Rashid Khalidi and Pankaj Mishra with a historical perspective, and Annelle Sheline adds a former insider’s view. Then, Aziz Rana on the awfulness of the US constitution, Anna Kornbluh with a cultural critique of immediacy, and Brooke Harrington on the offshore money-hiding racket. Concluding with a memorial to Jane McAlevey.
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: the Constitution cult
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 30, 2024 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy but we worship it anyway
Fresh audio product: perils of striking Trump from the ballot, a good year for labor
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 4, 2024 Samuel Moyn, law prof and historian, on the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot (article here) • labor journalist Alex Press on the year in labor (articles on that topic here and here)
Fresh audio product: Chilean constitution, student debt relief
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 8, 2022 Chilean political activist Antonia Atria explains why that country’s voters rejected a proposed new constitution • Juliana Fredman, a public interest lawyer in the Bay Area, analyzes Biden’s student debt relief plan
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