Fresh audio product: neoliberalism, eugenics branch • stablecoins, and the Trump/UAE deal
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 18, 2025 Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards, on the eugenics/race science tendencies within High Church Neoliberalism • Molly White on stablecoins, and the Trump–UAE deal
Fresh audio product: untangling DEI, the history of “choice”
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 13, 2025 Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò picks apart the contradictory strands of the DEI obsession • Sophia Rosenfeld, author of The Age of Choice, explores this history of that concept over the last few centuries
Fresh audio product: Black Panthers, Pakistan
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 29, 2024 historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party • Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood on Pakistan
Fresh audio product: post-leftism, Afropessimism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 14, 2022 Erik Baker, author of this piece, takes another look at a recent BtN obsession: post-leftism • José Sanchez, author of this critique of Afropessimism, looks at the school of thought and its contradictions
Fresh audio product: racial wealth gap, Jack Welch
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 16, 2022 Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the racial wealth gap, 1860–2020 • David Gelles, author of The Man Who Broke Capitalism, on Jack Welch, CEO of GE from 1981–2001
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 11, 2021 Lisa Graves on the right-wing funding and strategy network around school protests • Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on the cultural politics around schools
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 4, 2021 Sheryll Cashin, author of White Space, Black Hood, on the origins, mechanisms, and effects of residential segregation, mostly by race but also by class • Peter Victor and Robert Pollin debate the virtues of “degrowth” in avoiding climate catastrophe
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 7, 2021 Nancy MacLean, author of this paper, on how Milton Friedman’s war on public education fit nicely with Southern massive resistance to desegregation • Klaus Jacob, a geophysicist, on how we can live with rising seas and heavier rains
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 23, 2021 Algernon Austin on the plight of black men in the job market (with an excerpt from a 2005 BtN interview with Devah Pager on discrimination) • Susie Bright on pegging the patriarchy
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 25, 2020 Nikhil Pal Singh on race, class, policing, protest • Michael Kinnucan of Brooklyn DSA’s electoral committee on left victories in the NYC primary elections
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 6, 2020 Sofia Japaridze on Congressionally protected wage theft in the libertarian paradise of post-Soviet Georgia • Margaret Kimberley, author of Prejudential, on the long, oppressive relationship of presidents to black people
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 31, 2018 Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson on why black Americans should resist gun control • Sabri Oncu on Turkey—the currency panic, the political and economic troubles
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Just posted to my radio archive (with a few days’ delay—sorry!). Click on date for link: May 3, 2018 Alejandro Velasco on Venezuela • Jessica Blatt, author of Race and the Making of American Political Science, on the racist origins of the discipline
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 24, 2017 Jodi Dean on class vs. identity, and the online life vs. practice • Jason Wilson on Charlottesville and the far right
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