Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLessons from the New Left with Max Elbaum
Let’s ensure that the history of American socialism doesn’t repeat as farce. That’s one reason that Max Elbaum wrote Revolution in the Air: Sixties R…
7 years, 11 months ago
Lisa Duggan on the Open Secret of Sexual Assault
Christine Blasey Ford and other women have revealed that our political-economic elite is pervaded by profound intimate violence, forms of brutal inte…
7 years, 11 months ago
Reclaiming Philadelphia
An interview with three members of Reclaim Philadelphia, which emerged from the Bernie 2016 campaign in Philly and has since—in a remarkably short am…
7 years, 11 months ago
Patrick Blanchfield on Serious Men
Serious people in Washington are seduced by vapid and self-serving accounts of their savvy operation of the machinery of government—works like Bob Wo…
7 years, 11 months ago
#AbolishDEA
The United States today exceeds at perpetually waging wars that it are destined to fail to meet their purported objectives. The War on Terror is one …
8 years ago
The Problem with the Problem with Appalachia
For many, conservatives and liberals alike, Appalachia provides a skeleton key for interpreting changes in American politics that might otherwise be …
8 years ago
Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser
Legendary critical theorist Nancy Fraser argues that a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view. Throu…
8 years ago
Matt Bruenig Spreads the Wealth Around
What socialism should offer is freedom by way of power and democratic control over our polity and economy—and thus over our future as a society. Matt…
8 years ago
Race or Class? Bad Question. With Nikhil Pal Singh.
Nikhil Pal Singh on the unfortunate obsession shared by certain pundits, journalists and social scientists: definitively proving that Trump won becau…
8 years ago
Organizing Amid Rising Tides
Dan speaks to Elizabeth Rush, the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a lyrical, mournful but ultimately hopeful account of peo…
8 years ago