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Late Star Trek - 347 PREVIEW
Episode 357
Today we are speaking with professor Adam Kotsko about his new book Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era. Why Trek so successful a…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Abundance Incoherence - 346
Episode 356
Today we have Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project, NLRB Edge, and The Bruenigs podcast on to talk about Ezra Klein's and Derek Thompson's boo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
How the Union Movement Can Rebuild - 345 EXCERPT
Episode 355
Today we are talking with Professor Eric Blanc about his book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump's Assault on Universities - 344
Episode 343
Today we are bringing back David Austin Walsh to talk about the Trump/Musk attack on American higher education--not just DEI programs, but advanced s…
1 year ago
The Power of Propaganda with Hannah Arendt - 220 UNLOCKED
Episode 354
Ryan is on vacation this week, so here's an episode from the archives.
Today we're discussing the article "Truth and Politics" by Hannah Arendt. We t…
1 year ago
The Failure of Constitutional Theory - 343
Episode 353
Today we are talking to Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet about his book Who Am I to Judge: Judicial Craft versus Constitution Theory. It’s common t…
1 year ago
The Biggest Asshole in History PREVIEW
Episode 352
Today we are discussing the book Assholes: A Theory, by Aaron James. It turns out there are important distinctions between the asshole, the douchebag…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Tech Oligarch Consent Machine - 341
Episode 351
This time we've got Eoin Higgins on to talk about his book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. He uses G…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Elon Musk Coup - 340 PREVIEW
Episode 350
This time we are taking a step back to consider just what is going on with shadow president Musk and his gang of thugs seizing control of core govern…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump's First Days - 339
Episode 349
Today we're bringing back Professor Harvey Kaye to talk about Trump's inaugural address and some of his first executive orders.
Check out the Prospec…
1 year, 1 month ago