Podcast Episodes

AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.

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3 years ago

The Fall of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The second in a two-part series on the 20th-century histo…

3 years ago

The Rise of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The first of a two-part series on the 20th-century histor…

3 years, 1 month ago

Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar

Featuring Brenna Bhandar on Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership. The centuries-long history of how dominant concept…

3 years, 1 month ago

Transmissions from Jonestown

A sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.

Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with …

3 years, 1 month ago

Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho…

3 years, 1 month ago

Trans Children w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han

Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han on how Chicago’s labor left took over City Hall. Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory, th…

3 years, 2 months ago

Philly’s Left Turn w/ Helen Gym & Nikil Saval

Featuring Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a lon…

3 years, 2 months ago

Superhighway!

We have as many roads in the United States as we have streams and rivers.

Produced by Caroline Kanner and Jackson Roach, with original music by Jack…

3 years, 2 months ago