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Back to SearchStåle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 522
In Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024), Ståle Holgersen develops a conceptualization of 'crisis' that moves beyo…
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Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 521
What does the history of Liverpool tell us about the future of Britain? In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2025), Sam Wetherall, a…
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What it Means to Forget
Episode 264
The recent removal of information about Black, Indigenous, and female military personnel from the Arlington National Cemetery’s website exemplifies h…
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Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 520
In Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought (Princeton UP, 2024), Bruno Leipold argues that, contrar…
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Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 355
Atiya Husain’s No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge and Terrorism (Duke University Press, 2025) uses the FBI Most Wanted lists to rethink theoretical r…
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Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
Episode 166
What explains the growing divide between elites and the broader public in democracies across Europe and the United States? In this episode of Interna…
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We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
Why does occupation reliably predict political leanings? What is social capitalism, and how does it span income classes? If social capitalists are si…
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Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Episode 410
Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In…
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Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
Episode 125
What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did thes…
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William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 519
In Enlightenment Biopolitics (U Chicago Press, 2024), historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopoli…
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