Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIlias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 105
After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback as an economic actor since the 2008 financial cr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 482
Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of Edin…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 324
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans…
1 year, 6 months ago
Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, "Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 549
Antisemitism is on the rise today. From synagogue shootings by white nationalists, to right-wing politicians and media figures pushing George Soros c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Episode 232
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a prac…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 476
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Danny Sriskandarajah, "Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World" (Headline Press, 2024)
Episode 4
Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World (Headline Press, 2024) is Danny Sriskandarajah‘s radical manifesto for change designed to inspi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 105
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. T…
1 year, 6 months ago
Melissa Osborne, "Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 481
Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associate p…
1 year, 6 months ago
Decolonial Muslim Political Activism and Thought in Britain
Season 1 Episode 15
Hizer Mir in conversation with Yahya Birt who speaks on decolonial Muslim political activism and thought in Britain.
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1 year, 6 months ago