Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Radical Teachers are Re-Igniting the Labor Movement - labor studies professor Eric Blanc on the Minneapolis strike
Episode 131
Eric Blanc's book Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strikes and Working-Class Politics is about the remarkable 2018-2019 educators' strikes that began …
4 years, 2 months ago
How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over The World - an interview with Elle Hardy, journalist and author of "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking over the World"
Episode 130
Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing religious faith in the world—by one estimate it obtains around 35,000 new converts per day globally. It now has…
4 years, 3 months ago
SPECIAL: How Leftists Can Run, Win, and Govern - featuring interviews with six Democratic Socialists who have been elected to public office
Episode 129
Across the United States, over the last few years, democratic socialists have been running for office in numbers not seen for a century. The Bernie S…
4 years, 3 months ago
Understanding Putin's Criminal War in Ukraine - interview with Russia expert and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel
Episode 128
Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editorial director and publisher of The Nation magazine, as well as a columnist for the Washington Post. She is also the…
4 years, 3 months ago
How Companies Make Us Worship Our Work - interview with Carolyn Chen, author of "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes a Religion in Silicon Valley"
Episode 127
Carolyn Chen's book Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion In Silicon Valley is about how something disturbing is happening in Silicon Valley: pe…
4 years, 3 months ago
"How Are You Going To Pay For That?" and Other Dumb Political Questions - interview with Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect
Episode 126
Ryan Cooper is the managing editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the Left Anchor podcast. He is the author of the new book How Are You Goin…
4 years, 3 months ago
How To Be A Foreign Correspondent Without Swallowing Propaganda - interview with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, about his decades as a foreign correspondent
Episode 125
Patrick Cockburn has been a Middle East correspondent for The Independent for over 30 years and has become known for his combination of a deep knowle…
4 years, 3 months ago
How Bill Gates Makes The World Worse Off
Episode 124
Bill Gates has long cultivated a reputation as the Good Billionaire, giving away vast sums of money toward global health and education initiatives th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Astonishingly, There IS An Alternative! Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece about his book "Another Now"
Episode 123
Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece, professor of economics at the University of Athens, co-founder of the Democracy in Europe …
4 years, 3 months ago
Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis
Episode 122
Victor Pickard is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. His book Democracy Without Jou…
4 years, 4 months ago