Podcast Episodes

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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…

7 years 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…

7 years 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…

7 years ago

Black Socialism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism with Michael Dawson

Dan discusses the history of black politics in the US—left, nationalist, liberal, and neoliberal—with Michael Dawson.

Check out New Dawn, Michael’s p…

7 years ago

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Indigenous History

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people’s history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible …

7 years ago

Keywords of Capitalism with John Patrick Leary

Ordinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emerge…

7 years, 1 month ago