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Back to SearchCurrent Affairs Book Club: The Novels of Sally Rooney
Episode 151
The bestselling novels of Sally Rooney have been subject to endless chatter. She has been hailed as the great millennial novelist by some, her work c…
3 years, 11 months ago
How Can We Plan a Viable Eco-Socialist Future That Everyone Likes?
Episode 150
One of the most fascinating and thought-provoking books of our time is Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Chang…
3 years, 11 months ago
Inside the Real World of Union Organizing
Episode 149
Daisy Pitkin has been in the labor movement for two decades and is the author of the new book On the Line A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women…
3 years, 11 months ago
How the War In Ukraine Can Be Ended
Episode 148
Anatol Lieven is an international relations expert and journalist who serves as a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. H…
3 years, 11 months ago
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”
Episode 147
Cryptocurrencies have been hyped in Super Bowl ads and promoted by everyone from Bill Clinton to Glenn Greenwald to Spike Lee to Larry David to New Y…
3 years, 11 months ago
How to Get Past the Need for Endless Economic Growth (w/ "Doughnut Economics" author Kate Raworth)
Episode 146
Kate Raworth is an economist at Oxford University whose book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist is a radical attem…
4 years, 1 month ago
The 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…
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month ago