Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Episode 161
Pioneering blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been an activist for online freedom since the early days of the history of the intern…
3 years, 11 months ago
Debunking The Right's Bad History of Abortion Laws w/ Leslie Reagan
Episode 160
Prof. Leslie Reagan is the probably the country's leading expert on the history of abortion laws. Her award-winning book When Abortion Was a Crime: W…
3 years, 11 months ago
Robin D.G. Kelley on the Importance of Utopian Visions for Social Movements
Episode 159
Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of American History at UCLA. His classic study Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination is about to be re-relea…
3 years, 11 months ago
The 20-Year Catastrophe of the War In Afghanistan
Episode 156
The war in Afghanistan was a calamity from the start and four US presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) have deceived the American public about it as…
3 years, 11 months ago
Oxford and the Making of the British Ruling Class
Episode 158
Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper's book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK argues that in order to understand how power …
3 years, 11 months ago
Why Web3 Is Going Just Great (w/ Molly White)
Episode 157
Molly White is the world's foremost critic of cryptocurrency, according to a recent profile in the Washington Post. A veteran Wikipedia editor and so…
3 years, 11 months ago
Thinking About Police After Uvalde and the San Francisco Prosecutor Recall (w/ Alex Vitale)
Episode 155
Alex Vitale is one of the country's foremost experts on policing and criminal punishment. He is a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Unearthing Queer History in America
Episode 154
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator who unearths and preserves lost queer history. His books When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women's House of Detention…
3 years, 11 months ago
Destroying Democracy in Education: The Case of New Orleans
Episode 153
Celeste Lay is a professor of political science at Tulane University and the author of Public Schools, Private Governance: Education Reform and Democ…
3 years, 11 months ago
How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander
Episode 152
The architect Christopher Alexander died recently. As the (surprisingly good) New York Times obituary described him:
[Alexander] believed that ordina…
3 years, 11 months ago