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Behind the News: Mark Fisher's Legacy w/ Matt Colquhoun
Matt Colquhoun talks about Mark Fisher on the reissue of his essay collection Ghosts of My Life. Then Matt Huber, author of a recent article for the New Left Review blog Sidecar titled "Mish-Mash Eco…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
A World to Win: Parliamentary Socialism w/ Andrew Murray
This week, Grace talks to Andrew Murray, former chair of the Stop the War Coalition, former chief of staff at the Unite trade union, and former advisor to Jeremy Corbyn. We discuss his forthcoming bo…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Michael and Us: Alex's War
The new documentary ALEX'S WAR (2022) seeks to "look past the caricature" of the Infowars gadfly Alex Jones. Your hosts find themselves disagreeing on the usefulness of this nonjudgmental profile of …
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Long Reads: Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and Empire (Part 1)
Deepa Kumar joins Long Reads for a discussion about imperial militarism and its relationship to Islamophobic bigotry. Deepa is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, and t…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Dig: A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Jacobin Show: New Deal Order w/ Gary Gerstle
Historian Gary Gerstle joins us to discuss what gave rise to the New Deal political order, the role that global communism played in the capital-labor compromise, and prospects for renewed social demo…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Behind the News: Crisis in Sri Lanka w/ Indrajit Samarajiva
Doug is joined by David Palumbo-Liu to discuss the politics of Stanford University and its infamous alum, Peter Thiel. We then get writer Indrajit Samarajiva's analysis of the political and economic …
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Special: Howard Zinn's 1969 Speech Against the Vietnam War
On October 15th, 1969, over 100,000 people gathered on Boston Common for the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. It was a country-wide protest in which two million people took part in demonstration…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
A World to Win: Left Bloc w/ James Schneider
Grace is joined by James Schneider, former Head of Strategic Communications for Jeremy Corbyn and the co-founder of Momentum, to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win. They discuss challenges faci…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Dig: Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 epi…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago