Podcast Episodes

Dig: Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar

Featuring Brenna Bhandar on Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership. The centuries-long history of how dominant conceptions of private property were (and are) made along…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Michael and Us: Motern and Us

Episode 430

For over two decades, a pair of New England-based independent filmmakers have created a cinematic universe out with their friends, family, and as little money as possible. Cohost Will finally brings …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Behind the News: Sea Change w/ Tina Gerhardt

Tina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change, talks about the effects rising oceans are having on small island nations. Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism, compares libertarian enclaves insulated …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Jacobin Radio: Utopia Postponed? w/ Marc Cooper

Marc Cooper and Pablo Abufom join Suzi in conversation about Marc's recent series “Chile's Utopia Has Been Postponed," which compares dramatic political events in Chile over recent years to the Popul…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Michael and Us: iPhone, Therefore I Am

As Canadians, we simply couldn't pass up a movie about our greatest national export. Matt Johnson's BLACKBERRY (2023) puts a darkly comic spin on the rise and fall of "the phone you had before your i…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Dig Presents: Transmissions from Jonestown

A sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.

Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lew…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Long Reads: Mussolini to Meloni w/ David Broder (Part 1)

Italy’s liberation during the Second World War was meant to have consigned fascism to history. But eight decades later, the country has a prime minister from the far-right tradition; Giorgia Meloni’s…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Behind the News: A Slow Civil War w/ Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet talks about his new book, The Undertow, essays on the increasingly violent and authoritarian politics on the right unleashed by Trump. Claire Dunning, author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods, …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Dig: Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard, envision a worl…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Michael and Us: By Grapthar's Hammer

We begin with a rundown of recent events, from the Coronation to the CNN Trump town hall to the Liberal Party of Canada's recent convention, before discussing the beloved comedy GALAXY QUEST (1999). …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago