Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGun Culture is Neoliberalism with Patrick Blanchfield
Neoliberal culture is one that expects little from government and everything from plucky individuals—including, apparently, the self-sacrificing cour…
8 years, 6 months ago
Gun Culture and Masculinity in an Age of Decline with Jennifer Carlson
How does gun culture get built from the ground up? What are the everyday politics of guns? Sociologist Jennifer Carlson does ethnographic fieldwork t…
8 years, 6 months ago
Nomiki Konst on the Fight Inside the Democratic Party
Nomiki Konst, a correspondent for The Young Turks and Sanders appointee to the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, talks about the Berniecrat struggle aga…
8 years, 6 months ago
Glenn Greenwald: Surveillance Hypocrisy Amid Russiagate Mania
Did the "Woke Blacks" Instagram account really cost Clinton the election? Glenn Greenwald returns to the show to ask basic but rarely asked questions…
8 years, 6 months ago
It’s Iron Stache
Dan talks to Randy Bryce (@IronStache), the Berniecrat ironworker taking on Paul Ryan, about how he plans to knockout the House Speaker, Scott Walker…
8 years, 7 months ago
Aziz Rana: The Cold War’s Late Demise
What if the Cold War only just ended in November 2016, as Donald Trump grotesquely encircled and then captured the presidency, finding it, to his sur…
8 years, 7 months ago
Frances Fox Piven: Movements Still Matter
Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, cl…
8 years, 7 months ago
Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence
The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that disc…
8 years, 7 months ago
Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, were violently removed. On some level, everyone knows this—yet it’s mostl…
8 years, 7 months ago
Why Democrats Fought Then Folded on DACA with Jeff Stein
Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted t…
8 years, 7 months ago