Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhither White Ethnics with Matthew Frye Jacobson
Everyone wants to know what's wrong with Appalachia. But beginning in the 1960s, it was "white ethics"—Italians, Irish, Polish, Jews and other non-WA…
8 years, 2 months ago
Child Casualties of the Border War
Vox immigration reporter Dara Lind, one very bright spot in an often disappointing landscape of mainstream immigration journalism, discusses the hist…
8 years, 3 months ago
David Harvey on Capital
David Harvey has taught Capital to huge numbers of people everywhere. Dan interviews him about his latest book, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Econ…
8 years, 3 months ago
Naomi Klein and Mercedes Martínez: The Battle for Puerto Rico
The US colony of Puerto Rico has been repeatedly shocked and Puerto Ricans are traumatized. That is precisely what successful shock doctrines like th…
8 years, 3 months ago
Spain Part II: Rajoy Falls
Last week, we posted an interview Dan recorded in Barcelona on Spanish politics—specifically the question of Catalan independence, and also the munic…
8 years, 3 months ago
Democracy in Chains with Nancy MacLean
For libertarians, liberty means something different. It’s about liberty for property owners. And in their quest to preserve that absolute freedom for…
8 years, 3 months ago
Two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal
Fifty years ago, a mainstream group of high-profile Americans declared the following: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one whit…
8 years, 3 months ago
Left Out of Spain’s National Question
Spanish politics are complicated. Dan speaks to Carlos Delclós, Kate Shea Baird and Bécquer Seguín to help clarify the Catalan independence movement,…
8 years, 3 months ago
Resisting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The steady pace of school massacres has revived calls to put more cops in school. And so atrocities committed by white students are exploited to make…
8 years, 3 months ago
Telling a New Story with George Monbiot
A laundry list of modest policy solutions is not enough, it turns out. It's not just that technocratic fixes-around-the-edges spectacularly fail to m…
8 years, 4 months ago