Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)
Episode 217
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet For The People: The Fight For Our Digital Future. Today he joins to discuss what's wrong with the internet and …
2 years, 6 months ago
Exposing the Corporate "Mindfulness" Racket (w/ Ronald Purser)
Episode 216
"When the individualized self bears sole responsibility for its happiness and emotional wellbeing, failure is synonymous with failure of the self, no…
2 years, 6 months ago
Understanding The Right's Never-Ending War to Destroy Social Security (w/ Alex Lawson)
Episode 215
Alex Lawson is the Executive Director of Social Security Works and the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. He has spent his…
2 years, 6 months ago
How To Hold The New York Times Accountable (w/ Margaret Sullivan)
Episode 202
How To Hold The New York Times Accountable (w/ Margaret Sullivan)
Margaret Sullivan is one of the country’s most astute media critics. During her time…
3 years ago
The Pseudoscience and Faux Feminism of Sobriety Memoirs (w/ Jennifer Dines)
Episode 201
“It’s not that hard to let yourself be led by something that doesn’t match up with your morals, when you’re desperate.” — Jennifer Dines
Jennifer Dine…
3 years ago
The Dysfunctions of Our "Democracy" and How To Fix Them (w/ Tom Geoghegan)
Episode 173
Thomas Geoghegan is a labor lawyer and writer whose latest book is The History of Democracy Has Yet To Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All…
3 years ago
STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)
Episode 200
“There’s an old adage ‘He who forgets history is condemned to repeat it.’ But what’s missing in that phrase is that there are the people who are in c…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)
Episode 199
One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, recently imploded spectacularly. Its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, had been called "the next Warr…
3 years, 5 months ago
Why Socialism and Trans Liberation Need Each Other (w/ Shon Faye)
Episode 198
Shon Faye is the author of the book The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice For All, available from Verso. The title of the book is meant sli…
3 years, 5 months ago
How a Marine Became a Critic of U.S. Imperialism (w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin)
Episode 197
Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a veteran of the U.S. Marines who served in Afghanistan. He is the author of the new memoir Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A…
3 years, 5 months ago