Podcast Episodes

Gunpower Death Drive w/ Patrick Blanchfield

Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.

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4 years, 3 months ago

The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer

Dan’s second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the De…

4 years, 3 months ago

Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar

What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it? …

4 years, 3 months ago

Center and Periphery w/ Margarita Fajardo

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Develop…

4 years, 4 months ago

The Return of Labor Militancy

Live from New York: Dan interviews Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Jaz Brisack of Starbucks Workers United, SEIU Local 1199NE president Ro…

4 years, 4 months ago

SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law w/ Aziz Rana, Amna Akbar, & Marbre Stahly-Butts

A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, li…

4 years, 4 months ago

Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and th…

4 years, 4 months ago

Bonds of Inequality w/ Destin Jenkins

Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, which makes a powerful argument about how the ubiquitou…

4 years, 5 months ago

Police w/ Mariame Kaba and Geo Maher

Mariame Kaba and Geo Maher discuss police, the politics of policing, abolition, reform—and more.

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4 years, 5 months ago

Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber

Rupert Russell and Isabella Weber discuss Russell’s book Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World and also the current politics…

4 years, 5 months ago