Fresh audio product: what made the GOP what it is today?

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 20, 2025 Paul Heideman, author of Rogue Elephant, on how the Republican party went from a staid vehicle of American business to the frothy lunacy of today

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: Vance, fake friend of the working class; American political parties are weird

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 18, 2024 Brandon Mancilla of the UAW looks behind the GOP’s pro-worker facade • Adam Hilton, author of True Blues, on the bizarre nature of the US political party system

Fresh audio product: the right speaks

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 12, 2023 Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist on the GOP: the meaning of the speaker fight, and what is the base of the Freedom Caucus anyway? • Sohrab Ahmari, co-founder of Compact Magazine, offers a left–right hybrid

Fresh audio product

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 9, 2017 Ryan Grim on the GOP and its issues • Rachel Sherman, author of Uneasy Street, on the consciousness of the rich

Fresh audio product

Just added to my radio archive: July 9, 2015 Nantina Vgontzas on the domestic politics of the Greek crisis (see her Jacobin pieces here) • Mark Blyth on why it’s wrong to blame Greece for its crisis (Foreign Affairs article here) July 2, 2015 Alyssa Katz, author of The Influence Machine, on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce • Rafael Bernabe and César Ayala on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis June 25, 2015 Bruce Bartlett on the relationship between the GOP and the Confederacy • Alex Gourevitch cautions against pushing for tighter gun laws (article here) • Saqib Bhatti on the modern engineered urban fiscal crisis, with emphasis on Chicago

New radio product

Freshly posted to my radio archives: September 10, 2011 Mike Lofgren, former Congressional staffer and author of this spirited farewell to his long-time party, describes the furious insanity of the GOP • Jonathan Kay, author of Among the Truthers, and Kathy Olmsted, UC–Davis prof and author of Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, on conspiriacism, esp the 9/11 kind