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Dig: Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber
Rupert Russell and Isabella Weber discuss Russell's book Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World and also the current politics…
4 years ago
Jacobin Show: Labor in Limbo?
Jen Pan sits down with Jacobin columnist Ross Barkan to discuss his latest article, “Working-Class Politics Without the Working Class,” which takes a…
4 years ago
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 uniq…
4 years 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.&…
4 years 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 …
4 years 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) …
4 years 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 Vive…
4 years 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 Anni…
4 years 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 int…
4 years 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 c…
4 years ago