Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLinh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
Episode 338
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its …
1 year, 3 months ago
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 513
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘l…
1 year, 3 months ago
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 337
Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode…
1 year, 3 months ago
Adnan Husain on Reorienting History
Episode 93
In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about th…
1 year, 3 months ago
Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Episode 513
Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press, 2024) argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--n…
1 year, 3 months ago
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
Episode 158
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025) by Dr. Martyn Percy offers a bold and unsettlin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 258
A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And alt…
1 year, 3 months ago
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 365
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organization of time and racial domination? Could utopian …
1 year, 3 months ago
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
Episode 144
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as lo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 200
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are inaccessible to all but the very wealthy. But, in America, this…
1 year, 3 months ago