Podcast Episodes

Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan

Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision…

Published on 1 day, 9 hours ago

Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley

Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Death and Life Under Capitalism w/ Sarah Jaffe

Featuring Sarah Jaffe on her book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. The ordinary death of a loved one under a capitalist order that routinely forbids sufficient time off to mou…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Chicago’s Left Experiment

Featuring Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor on Chicago’s left political experiment. In the wake of Zohran’s remarkable victory in New York, organizers all over the country a…

Published on 1 month ago

Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams

Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the affor…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant

Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA

Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history…

Published on 2 months ago

Israel’s Forever Wars w/ Mouin Rabbani

Featuring Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s war on Iran, possible direct US intervention, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce

Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. Interview by guest host Astra Taylor.

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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn

Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020’s summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: “The pressing question is how …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago