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Back to SearchThe 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 2 months ago
How Finance Ate The Economy - w/ Grace Blakeley
Episode 135
Finance expert Grace Blakeley is a staff writer for Tribune magazine. She has served as economics commentator for the New Statesman and as a fellow a…
4 years, 2 months ago
Aviva Chomsky on Why "The Science" Isn't All We Need To Know About Climate Change
Episode 134
Prof. Aviva Chomsky teaches history and Latin American studies at Salem State University and has authored and edited numerous books including Central…
4 years, 2 months ago
How Does Economics Corrupt The World? - Jonathan Aldred, author of "The Skeptical Economist"
Episode 133
Jonathan Aldred is an economist at Cambridge University, but he is a fierce critic of the mainstream of his discipline. In his books The Skeptical Ec…
4 years, 2 months ago
Are We In The Middle of A Sexual Revolution? Journalist Laurie Penny on changes in gender relations
Episode 132
Laurie Penny is a journalist and activist who has authored seven books including Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, Bitch Doctrine: Essays…
4 years, 2 months ago