Podcast Episodes

On the Line w/ Daisy Pitkin

Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully c…

3 years, 9 months ago

Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib

Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor…

3 years, 9 months ago

Emancipation Circuit w/ Thulani Davis

Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid…

3 years, 9 months ago

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism, intergenerational organizing, internationalism, and a whol…

3 years, 10 months ago

The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa

Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina F…

3 years, 10 months ago

A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—includ…

3 years, 10 months ago

Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew

Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to r…

3 years, 10 months ago

Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist pl…

3 years, 11 months ago

Dead Generations w/ Matt Christman

Featuring Matt Christman on how American history brought us to this awful present.

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3 years, 11 months ago

How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser

Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploita…

3 years, 11 months ago