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Long Reads: Biden's Vietnam w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
This is another special episode of Long Reads looking at Israel’s war on Gaza. Our focus today is on the politics of the Biden Administration and its…
2 years, 3 months ago
Michael and Us: We Invented Chill!
We kick off 2024 by raiding the fridge for some holiday leftovers. It's become an annual tradition on this podcast to try to extract ideology from Ti…
2 years, 3 months ago
Introducing... Organize the Unorganized
There have been many moments of labor upsurge in America: the influx of members into the Knights of Labor in 1886, the dramatic growth of unions duri…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jacobin Radio: Grassroots Democracy in Latin America w/ Gabriel Hetland
Gabriel Hetland has just published his study of populist experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia, Democracy on the Ground, showing the complexity of imp…
2 years, 3 months ago
Dig: Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire's Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrup…
2 years, 3 months ago
Michael and Us: Gun Kata
If society outlawed emotions, could we stop all war and conflict? This is the very, very stupid question at the heart of EQUILIBRIUM (2002), the dyst…
2 years, 3 months ago
Behind the News: Far-Right Resurgence in Argentina w/ Forrest Hylton
Environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt analyzes the recently concluded COP28 environmental summit, where limited good intentions were uttered and oil…
2 years, 3 months ago
Long Reads: The Flemish Revolutions w/ Jan Dumolyn
If anyone thinks about medieval Flanders today, it’s most likely because they have an interest in the art of painters like Bruegel and Rubens. But Fl…
2 years, 3 months ago
Behind the News: Israel's Motives in Gaza w/ Joel Schalit
Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, discusses what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza. Amy Schiller, autho…
2 years, 4 months ago
Michael and Us: A Whiff of Grapeshot
The French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte have inspired a lot of takes... so, of course, you can depend on Ridley Scott to find the l…
2 years, 4 months ago