Fresh audio product: public monuments, Trump’s Gaza scheme, Mamdani’s run for NYC mayor
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 2, 2025 Erin Thompson on the politics of public monuments as Trump talks of restoring Confederate statues • Mouin Rabbani returns for a look at Trump’s dubious Gaza peace scheme • Ted Hamm, author of Run Zohran Run!, on Mamdani’s campaign for NYC mayor
fresh audio product: recognizing Palestine, bailing out Milei
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 25, 2025 Mouin Rabbani explains what behind all these fresh diplomatic recognitions of Palestine and speculates on the future of Gaza • Ernesto Semán on the Argentine situation, and the US bailout of the libertarian Javier Milei (see NYRB article here)
Fresh audio product: Trump’s world, a tour d’horizon; checks and balances and elites
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): 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: Israel, Gaza, and Trump
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): 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
The Gaza ceasefire: an interview with Mouin Rabbani
This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview that I did with Mouin Rabbani on the January 23, 2025, edition of Behind the News. Rabbani is a journalist and analyst with a deep understanding of the Middle East. He has served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. He is the co-editor of Jadaliyya, an ezine that covers the region, where he also hosts its Connections podcast. I asked Rabbani to comment on… Read More
Fresh audio product: Gaza ceasefire, sex work today
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 23, 2025 Mouin Rabbani on the Gaza ceasefire and Trump’s plans for the Middle East • Angela Jones and Bernadette Barton, co-editors of Sex Work Today, on that topic
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: right’s war on an Idaho college, Israel’s goals
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 31, 2024 Laura Jedeed, author of this article, on the right’s war on North Idaho College • Mouin Rabbani on what’s driving Israel’s multiple wars, and on the state of the Axis of Resistance
Fresh audio product: arming and funding Israel, how people actually like their jobs
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 24, 2024 William Hartung, co-author of this paper, on how much aid the US has given to Israel over the last year (plus some wacky stuff on AI weapons) • sociologist Scott Schieman on his surprising research showing that people actually like their jobs
Fresh audio product: Hamas is winning, updates on the US carceral state
Just added to my radio archive (after a week off): July 4, 2024 Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning (article here) • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and other news on crime & punishment (report here)
fresh audio product: Israel and its Arab neighbors, school scheming
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 20, 2024 Steven Simon on Israel and the Arab states’ relations with it • Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars, on the right-wing’s latest educational ploys (and here’s Marcus Brown’s website that I mentioned in the intro)
Fresh audio product: Gaza and the larger political context; why people hate inflation
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 23, 2024 Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict • Stefanie Stantcheva on why people hate inflation (papers here and here)
Fresh audio product: a resignation on principle and changing relations of production in Hollywood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 16, 2024 Annelle Sheline on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here) • Daniel Bessner, author of this Harper’s cover story, on the debasement of screenwriting in Hollywood
Fresh audio product: Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 28, 2024 Pankaj Mishra, author of this article, on the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust • Nancy Folbre, one of four authors of this report, on assigning a monetary value to care work
Fresh audio product: why did SA bring case against Israel, organizing amidst sprawl, the widening war in the Middle East
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 1, 2024 Sean Jacobs explores why South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel • Eric Blanc (Substack post here) on organizing in a scattered and atomized society • Hassan El-Tayyab on the widening war in the Middle East
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