Podcast Episodes

Love and Social Justice: Reclaiming Connection in Capitalist Society

Season 8 Episode 23

Capitalism Hits Home returns after a long hiatus that allowed Dr. Fraad to focus on a new book project coming out this fall from Democracy at Work. T…

16 hours ago

View Episode

Epstein and The Thrill of Domination

Season 8 Episode 22

This week on Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad discusses how the saga of the release of the Epstein files is producing a "falling out among the…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

View Episode

The Violent Crimes of Lost, Angry Men

Season 8 Episode 21

In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores how rape and mass murder become some men's reactions to their reduced status as p…

8 months, 1 week ago

View Episode

Today's Family Structure Extolled and Endangered

Season 8 Episode 20

In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores the repressed history of the family structure we know today. It explores the forc…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

View Episode

The State of Women in the U.S. in 2025

Season 8 Episode 19

Women in the U.S. are under political, economic, social, and reproductive siege. The rights we fought for, like abortion rights, are now fully availa…

9 months, 1 week ago

View Episode

If Children Are Our Future, Americans Are out of Luck

Season 8 Episode 18

The UN's latest assessment of children in the developed world puts children in the U.S. at the bottom in intellectual achievement, physical health, m…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

View Episode

Labors of Love

Season 8 Episode 17

Women labor intensively and extensively to create and maintain human life. Women's labor in Creating and raising children, establishing order and cle…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

View Episode

A Different Kind of Power

Season 8 Episode 16

Jacinda Ardern was the Socialist Labor Party Prime Minister of New Zealand for 8 years. She led with a politics of empathy, delivering her nation fro…

11 months ago

View Episode

Epstein — A Marriage of Capitalist Corruption and Misogyny

Season 8 Episode 15

Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in New York in 2019, …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

View Episode

Social Reproduction Theory Illuminates the Issues of Our Time

Season 8 Episode 14

There has been an extensive study of workers and the commodities they produce. When it comes to who produces those workers, or who produces people, …

1 year ago

View Episode