Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Terrifying and Stupid Ideas of "Neoreactionaries"
Episode 145
A recent article in Vanity Fair about the National Conservatism Conference profiles figures on the "New Right," including Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, Bl…
3 years, 9 months ago
Santa Claus for Alaska
Episode 144
Santa Claus is the mayor pro-tem of North Pole, Alaska. Yes, he's real, and he's a democratic socialist running for Congress in the special election …
3 years, 9 months ago
How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
Episode 143
Tom Wetzel's forthcoming book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (AK Press) is both a primer on the basic left…
3 years, 9 months ago
How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them
Episode 142
Jennifer Taub is a law professor whose book Big Dirty Money: Making White Collar Criminals Pay is about the double standard in American law that hars…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Life and Crimes of Winston Churchill
Episode 141
Tariq Ali is the author of two dozen books and his career as a public intellectual and activist stretches back to the 1960s. His new book Winston Chu…
3 years, 10 months ago
A View of British Government From the Inside w/ former Labour MP Chris Mullin
Episode 140
Chris Mullin served from 1987 to 2010 as a Labour MP in the British parliament. During that time, he kept a daily diary of his observations, which ha…
3 years, 10 months ago
Dr. Mark Vonnegut on the Soullessness of Modern Medicine
Episode 139
Mark Vonnegut MD has been a pediatrician for over 30 years. He is the author of the books The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, Just Like Someone W…
3 years, 10 months ago
How the Amazon Labor Union Defeated the Bezos Behemoth
Episode 138
Justine Medina is a member of the organizing committee for the Amazon Labor Union and a packer at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. The ALU recent…
3 years, 10 months ago
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Killed in America?
Episode 137
Angie Schmitt is a transportation writer and planner whose book Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America ex…
3 years, 10 months ago
Noam Chomsky on How to Avoid World War 3
Episode 136
Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive," the founder of modern linguistics, one of the most cited scholars in history, and t…
3 years, 11 months ago