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The Aftermath of Collapse: Bronze Age Edition (2021)
What happens after everything falls apart? The end of the Bronze Age was a moment when an entire network of ancient civilizations collapsed, leaving behind only clues to what happened. Today, scholar…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)
Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep observer of the human condition, perplexe…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
El Libertador and Venezuela's Rise and Fall (2019)
Venezuela is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis as extreme poverty and violence have forced many to flee the country in recent years. How did a country once wealthy with oil resources fall in…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Lives of the Great Depression (2020)
The Great Depression was a revolutionary spark for all kinds of things — health insurance, social safety nets, big government — all of which were in response to a national crisis. Through the persona…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Stories of How We Cope With Chaos (2021)
You've been looking at screens for what feels like forever. Now it's time to sit back, close your eyes, and come with us to worlds you've never seen, and histories you've never imagined. This is the …
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Grenada: Nobody's Backyard
A Marxist revolution, a Cold War proxy battle, and a dream of a Black utopia. In 1983, Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. military to invade the island of Grenada. Almost four decades later, many America…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Olympics: Behind The Five Rings
The Olympics originated in Ancient Greece, and were resurrected in the 1890's after a 1,500 year ban. Since then, the International Olympic Committee has been behind every Olympic Games. In this epis…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Home/Front: Marla's War
What do we owe innocent civilians who are killed or injured in war? This is one of the thorniest ethical questions that any military faces, but it was not abstract for anti-war activist Marla Ruzicka…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Most Sacred Right (2020)
Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Crow…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Bonus: Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?
This week we're featuring an episode from Code Switch, Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?. Calls for racial justice are met with a lot of different proposals, but one of the loudest and most e…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago