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Dig: AOC on US Hegemony and Latin American Sovereignty
Featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Latin American left and the long history of US intervention in the region.
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2 years, 7 months ago
Long Reads: The Hidden Rosa Luxemburg w/ Peter Hudis
More than a century after her death in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably one of the most celebrated Marxist thinkers. But until very recently, m…
2 years, 7 months ago
Behind the News: A Social History of the Internet w/ Taylor Lorenz
Lisa Corrigan, author of a recent Nation article, explains what the savage cuts at West Virginia University mean for higher ed. Taylor Lorenz, author…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dig: Emergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & Riofrancos
Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What …
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael and Us: Arrested Development
We've been talking about a lot of soulless, big-budget IP movies that represent a rot in our culture... so how about a how about a hand-crafted, achi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Behind the News: The State of Trans Politics w/ Erin Reed
Sohrab Ahmari, author of Tyranny, Inc., talks about the dictatorship of capital. Erin Reed, aka Erin in the Morning, discusses the state of trans pol…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael and Us: Long Live the New Flesh
After years of hearing from censors that violent media images cause harm, David Cronenberg made a movie... in which violent media images cause harm. …
2 years, 8 months ago
Behind the News: US Interests in Niger w/ Caitlin Chandler
Francisco Pérez of the University of Utah talks about the CFA franc. Caitlin Chandler, author of a 2022 Harper's article about "the next frontier in …
2 years, 8 months ago
Dig: Conjuncture w/ Akbar, Winant, & Riofrancos
Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teach…
2 years, 8 months ago
Long Reads: Simone de Beauvoir's Socialist Feminism w/ Emma McNicol
When Simone de Beauvoir died in 1986, French TV news described her as a “symbol of women’s liberation,” but they couldn’t resist bracketing her name …
2 years, 8 months ago