Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 16, 2025 Ilan Pappé, author of Israel on the Brink, on the ceasefire and how the deepening crisis of Israeli society could lead to something better • Jennifer Berkshire on the appalling Trump educational agenda
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: anti-wokeness, MTG dissents
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 7, 2025 Jodi Dean, author of this article, on why going anti-woke is very wrong • Emily Jashinsky on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s use of the word “genocide,” and other curious developments on the right
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: Iran, fake work
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 26, 2025 Sohrab Ahmari, US editor of UnHerd, on Iran, Israel, and the US • Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Fake Work, on the ludicrous side of capitalism
Fresh audio product: Israel’s war on Iran
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): 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: 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: Syria, COP29
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 19, 2024 Trita Parsi and Joshua Landis analyze what’s been going on in Syria • Tina Gerhardt reviews the annual UN climate conference, COP29, where little happened
Fresh audio product: Trump and the rest of the world, Trump and the cops
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 14, 2024 Anatol Lieven tries to divine a Trump foreign policy out of unreliable rhetoric and early appointments • Alex Vitale tries similar on Trump and criminal justice
Fresh audio product: Trump, Israeli public opinion, the meaning of Ukraine
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 7, 2024 DH comments on the Trump victory, especially the role of inflation • Dahlia Scheindlin on Israeli public opinion • James Foley and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, authors of this article, on the role of Ukraine in the Western political imagination
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
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