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Michael and Us: Akira, the Wrath of God
Luke and Will discuss AKIRA (1988), the groundbreaking anime classic. We hash over the film's vision of a future-dystopia, finding elements both unique to 1988 and applicable to all times. PLUS: the …
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Behind the News: The Yemen War
Doug interviews Annelle Sheline, author of a new Quincy Institute policy brief about the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia's brutal war. Doug also interviews Natalia Petrzela, author…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
A World to Win: Imperialism and the Energy Crisis w/ David Wearing
Grace chats to David Wearing, post-doctoral researcher at SOAS and author of AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain. They discuss Boris Johnson’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and th…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Dig: Vaccine Apartheid Endures w/ Achal Prabhala
Astra interviews Achal Prabhala on the lethal persistence of global vaccine apartheid. Moderna is selfishly refusing to share or even sell (license) its mRNA technology, leaving much of the world unp…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Jacobin Show: Debate! On Ukraine & Ideology w/ Slavoj Žižek
Eric Levitz and Branko Marcetic debate how the left in the US should understand and respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Slavoj Žižek and Vivek Chibber debate the role of ideology in promoting…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Behind the News: The Cultural Politics of War in Ukraine w/ Richard Seymour
Doug speaks with Richard Seymour about the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine, Emily Drabinski about the war against libraries, and finally Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Cold War…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Long Reads: Anton Jäger on Belgium, the World's Most Successful Failed State?
Anton Jäger joins Long Reads for a discussion about modern Belgium and its recent history. The country's image as a harmonious center of European integration, as host of the European Union and NATO, …
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
A World to Win: The War on the Poor w/ Alfie Stirling
This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, dissect the UK Chancellor’s spring statement. It looks set to contain very few of the measures that would be nece…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
Michael and Us: Hunters in the Snow
The great Homer Simpson once said, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." In that spirit, we watched Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece SOLARIS (1972), which imagines outer space as a man…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
Jacobin Show: How Democrats Lost Rural America w/ Anthony Flaccavento
Anthony Flaccavento, Virginia-based farmer, author, and co-founder of the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative, joins the Jacobin Show to discuss rural America—and why the Democrats lose so consistently in …
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago