Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDSA Kicking Ass with Lee Carter and David Duhalde
Last week was a bad week for Republicans and a good week for Democrats—and for Democratic Socialists. It’s now pretty clear that Republicans will pay…
8 years, 7 months ago
A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new bo…
8 years, 8 months ago
Don’t Criminalize Sex Work with Melissa Gira Grant
Journalist @melissagira eviscerates a newspaper investigation that conflates sex work with trafficking. She examines how reporters unwittingly fall i…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Hollow Center with Molly Ball and Eric Levitz
Centrist business elites believe in an America that doesn't exist. Two guests this episode: first, @mollyesque talks about her piece "On Safari in Tr…
8 years, 8 months ago
Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck
Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been t…
8 years, 8 months ago
Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana discusses his pivotal book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Rana overturns conventional accounts of American history, from settlement an…
8 years, 8 months ago
Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment
The exposure of Weinstein's predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in t…
8 years, 8 months ago
Corey Robin: Trump’s Reactionary Mind
@CoreyRobin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one define…
8 years, 8 months ago
Bonus: Ending the War on Drug Dealers
Dan was on a panel last week on ending the war on drug dealers at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Atlanta. The panel was moderated by asha ba…
8 years, 8 months ago
Let’s Elect Left Candidates with Joe Dinkin
Since Bernie Sanders's success in the 2016 Democratic primary, much of the Left, from progressive Democrats to socialists, has had its sights set o…
8 years, 8 months ago