Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchColonialism in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla
Maria hit Puerto Rico as austerity dismantled its social and material infrastructure. But as Yarimar Bonilla explains, these years also taught Puerto…
6 years, 8 months ago
Socializing Ownership with Mathew Lawrence
Mathew Lawrence, founder and director of the left-wing UK think tank Common Wealth, explains why ownership must be socialized, what that might look l…
6 years, 8 months ago
Settler-Colonial Revolutionaries with Joshua Simon
The divide between Latin American and the United States was not always so evident. Across the hemisphere, creoles—the descendants of European settler…
6 years, 8 months ago
Worldmaking after Empire with Adom Getachew
Adom Getachew explains how anticolonial leaders from across the black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also end empire by constr…
6 years, 8 months ago
Hindu Nationalism with Achin Vanaik
Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in India. There, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, continues in power under Prime Minister Narendra …
6 years, 8 months ago
Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch
Dan interviews Alex Gourevitch about how 19th century US labor radicals remade the idea of freedom into a principle of working-class social transform…
6 years, 9 months ago
Palestine and the Law with Noura Erakat
Dan interviews Noura Erakat, the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, a new book that analyzes the history of settler-colon…
6 years, 9 months ago
Ayn Rand’s Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan
Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don’t ha…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Class Politics of Suburban Racism with Matt Lassiter
The history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveal the class power underpinning both racism and the demolitio…
6 years, 9 months ago
Silvia Federici on Women and Capitalism
Dan interviewed legendary feminist scholar Silvia Federici on Caliban and the Witch at her Brooklyn apartment. Next year, he’ll make a return trip to…
6 years, 10 months ago