Fresh audio product: professor canceled for an article, the lingering effects of the slavocracy in the South, the Confederate diaspora
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 25, 2024 Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with 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 (from a June 2023 interview)
Fresh audio product: Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the rise of technofeudalism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 18, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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
Fresh audio product: Houthis, Hezbollah
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 25, 2024 Shireen Al-Adeimi of Michigan State and the Quincy Institute, on the Houthis • political scientist Aurélie Daher with another view of Hezbollah
Fresh audio product: war in Gaza, the life and work of Joan Didion
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 26, 2023 Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on her life and work
Fresh audio product: failed protests, Israel–Palestine
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 12, 2023 Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, on the decade of protest movements that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 15, 2021 Christian Parenti, author of a chapter in this book, on carbon dioxide removal • Kareem Rabie, author of Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited, on real estate development and the Palestinian national project
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 27, 2021 Khaled Hroub on the history, structure, and politics of Hamas • Pablo Abufom, author of this article, on the Chilean elections, a victory for the left
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 20, 2021 Joel Schalit and Orly Noy (separately) on the politics of Israel: what are the internal dynamics that make it so bellicose and repressive?
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