Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 244
In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a ‘working-class hero’. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk …
2 years, 1 month ago
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 433
How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.
In Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Makin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023)
Episode 432
How do fiction and research intersect? In The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2023), Beth Driscoll, an Associate …
2 years, 2 months ago
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
Episode 10
“How has it come to this? How has ‘Zionist’…become the dirtiest word to the international Left?” Susie Linfield poses that ripe question at the outse…
2 years, 2 months ago
Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 431
In On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Oxford UP, 2022), Guido Parietti proposes a more proper definition of power--as the con…
2 years, 2 months ago
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 697
Dr. Kareem Muhammad has a new book that focuses on the role of Black voters in the United States – specifically in their power as participants in dem…
2 years, 2 months ago
Black and Queer on Campus
Episode 197
Today’s book is: Black and Queer on Campus (NYU Press, 2023) by Michael P. Jeffries, which offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ colle…
2 years, 2 months ago
Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 13
Scott Gac's Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The Unite…
2 years, 2 months ago
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 184
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 78
In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a…
2 years, 2 months ago