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SCOTUS trouble, working-class white people, and Taiwan's military
Hello from the National Speech & Debate Tournament!
This week, we unpack the idea of court packing, look for common cause with working-class whites, a…
5 years, 2 months ago
Trump has Covid! Is the virus totally random? And listener questions.
Happy belated Mid-Autumn Festival!
We pried Andy away from doomscrolling 45 to bring you this late-night episode of semi-coherent thoughts on the Ame…
5 years, 3 months ago
"Itaewon Class" and class politics; and what to make of left-wing utopias
Hello from Andy’s Zoom lecture!
This week: the class politics of the Netflix K-drama “Itaewon Class” (이태원 클라쓰), success and failure in leftist utopias…
5 years, 3 months ago
The 1776 Project, TikTok nationalism, and four listener questions
Hello from the TTSG drop-out commune!
This week, a longer-than-we-intended show about the TikTok saga, Chinese/US hegemony, and nationalist traps. We…
5 years, 3 months ago
From 9/11 to 45: How Will We Remember Trump, USA?
Whither memory: Guantanamo W. Bush paints over his legacy.
Hello from the future!
Inspired (triggered?) by last week’s commemorations of 9/11, we get …
5 years, 3 months ago
Race Fakes, Disparity Discourse, and Mulan in Xinjiang
Greetings from Jay’s 95-degree basement!
This week, we start, inevitably, with our takes on Jessica Krug, the historian caught assuming a series of br…
5 years, 4 months ago
Basketball Revolution? Plus Death and Fear in Kenosha and Portland
Greetings from our virtual union hall!
This week, we talk protest and death in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon, and consider what to make of…
5 years, 4 months ago
'Racial disparity' and 'race vs. class' debates: historian Merlin Chowkwanyun
Hi everyone:
Today we’re presenting a conversation between myself (Andy) and my college friend Merlin Chowkwanyun, assistant professor of sociomedical…
5 years, 4 months ago
AOC at the DNC, WeChat, and Right-Wing Asians
Hello from behind the Great Firewall!
As summer winds down and election season begins to heat up, we reflect on the political prospects of Asian Ameri…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ethnic Studies, Revolutionary Politics, and the Third World Liberation Front with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hello!
We’re very excited to have Pulitzer Prize winner and Macarthur Genius Grant recipient Viet Thanh Nguyen on the show. There was a lot to discus…
5 years, 4 months ago