Fresh audio product: two looks at the right—respectables vs. deplorables, and MAGA’s intellectuals
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 29, 2026 David Austin Walsh, author of Taking America Back, on the relationship between the kooks and respectables on the right • Laura Field, author of Furious Minds, on the intellectual wing of Trumpism
Fresh audio product: China, Chairman Bill
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 9, 2025 Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world • Jeet Heer, author of this review, on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.
Fresh audio product: Bill Buckley—his life, thought, and influence
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 28, 2025 Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America, on Bill, his thought, and his influence
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: durability of slaveholder wealth, a conservative looks at the election, effects of teachers’ strikes
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 12, 2024 Neil Sehgal, co-author of this paper, on the durability of slaveholder wealth, via a look at Congress • Emily Jashinsky with a conservative’s view of the election • Melissa Lyon, co-author of this paper, on the effects of teachers’ strikes
Fresh audio product: criminalization of protest, hidden agenda behind anti-trans panic
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 2, 2024 Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
Fresh audio product: postliberalism and new global configurations of power
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 14, 2023 Jodi Dean, author of this review, on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. • Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute on the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power
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: factions on the right, AI hype
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 22, 2022 Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles • Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism
Fresh audio product: black radicalism, Viktor Orbán
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 21, 2022 Donna Murch, author of Assata Taught Me, on black radical politics from the Panthers to the Movement for Black Lives • Kyle Shybunko, author of this piece, on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, a hero to many on the American right
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 16, 2021 Sam Adler-Bell, author of this article, on the young counterrevolutionary new right • Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica on how the very rich can pay no taxes
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 25, 2021 Mike Lofgren on the cultural devolution of the right (article here) • Gustavo Gordillo and Brandon Tizol of DSA’s public power campaign on socializing electricity
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 30 2017 Corey Robin, whose The Reactionary Mind has just been issued in an updated edition, on the right from Burke to Trump
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