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Back to SearchPREVIEW: Jack Jackson on Law Without Future
Continuing their long-running legal series, Vanessa and Oren speak to Jack Jackson, lawyer and professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Wall…
5 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW: Colette Shade on Covid and Mental Health
Nick Slater speaks to mental health writer Colette Shade (@MsShade) on the recent acceleration in the mental health crisis, why it affects some group…
5 years, 6 months ago
#57: Some Sort of Bad Sword
Episode 57
The team shares their thoughts on "the college experience", the recent failed NBA strike, and how we feel about Covid six months in. The panel this w…
5 years, 6 months ago
David Graeber.
The team pays tribute to anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who passed away on September 2nd. "What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun?": https://…
5 years, 6 months ago
UNLOCKED! Lee Weiner of the Chicago Seven on "conspiracy to riot"
In this super-special episode, Nathan and Oren speak to Lee Weiner, defendant in one of the most notorious trials of the 1960s—the trial of the Chica…
5 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW: Localism
Sparky and Pete discuss what it means to love a place, to be from a place, and to center our organizing around smaller places. This is a preview of a…
5 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW: Ryan Cooper on deadly trucks
Nathan and Sparky speak to Ryan Cooper (@ryanlcooper) of The Week and the Left Anchor podcast about 'truck bloat'—the phenomenon of increasingly big,…
5 years, 6 months ago
#56: The People's Xbox
Episode 56
The panel discusses "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman, taking over politicians' houses, and how political movements become appealing. …
5 years, 6 months ago
Lee Weiner of the Chicago Seven on "conspiracy to riot"
In this super-special episode, Nathan and Oren speak to Lee Weiner, defendant in one of the most notorious trials of the 1960s—the trial of the Chica…
5 years, 7 months ago
PREVIEW: The Simpsons episode!
"When it comes to jokes, The Simpsons uses every part of the animal." Current Affairs newsletter editor Nick Slater, amusements editor Lyta Gold and …
5 years, 7 months ago