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Episode 2056: Kyle Paoletta exposes the 2024 Republican Primaries as "Farce"
Marx’s 19th century remark that history repeats itself twice, first as tragedy and then as farce, helps us makes sense of the seemingly surreal polit…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2055: Michael Ignatieff on a history of his privileges
Pete Townsend said it best. “Hope I die before I get old” he wrote in The Who’s anthemic 1965 hit, “My Generation”. But what Townsend really meant in…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2054: Keith Teare follows the money of the online creative economy
The more that changes in the digital world, the more that stays the same. For all the disruption of AI, two trends appear totally unchanging. Firstly…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2053: Vince Houghton on how the Cold War transformed Miami into America's most Covert City
We don’t often image Miami as a city of Cold War subterfuge akin to Berlin or Vienna. But according to Vince Houghton, co-author of COVERT CITY, Miam…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2052: Bryan Caplan on the economic and philosophical case for the radical deregulation of the housing industry
We’ve done several shows on the housing crisis in America, mostly from a progressive perspective in which the solution to the shortage of homes is pr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2051: Mohamed Amer Meziane offers an ecological and racial history of seculization
One of Bethanne Patrick’s recommended books for April was Mohamed Amer Meziane’s The States of the Earth. It sounded intriguing, if not entirely cohe…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 250: Andrew J Scott on why we should care about old people
In today’s stultified American gerontocracy, not everyone is convinced that we should care about old people. After all, aging baby boomers still cont…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2049: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Samyr Laine
Samyr Laine might be a model for how to become a Haitian-American in the 21st century. Son of Haitian emigrants, Laine was a roommate of Mark Zuckerb…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2048: Tobias Buck on the Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
Given the industry of Holocaust remembering, do we really need another book about the Nazis and their industrial death camps? Yes, according to Tobia…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2047: Elisa New on Poetry in America
The Harvard academic Elisa New is host of the much acclaimed PBS series POETRY IN AMERICA. Now in Season Four, the show has featured conversations ab…
2 years, 5 months ago