Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 387
Who is believed in our mediated world? In Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, 2023), Sarah Banet-Weiser, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)
Episode 1332
In Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society (ILR Press, 2021), Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
Episode 29
Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023).
It’s well known and almost taken for granted that we live…
2 years, 11 months ago
Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
Episode 145
Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in January of that year, and it really concerns me r…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
Episode 57
Darts and Letters is creating a new podcast, Academic Edgelords.
This is a scholarly podcast about scholarly provocateurs. This is a leftist podcast t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 389
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel…
2 years, 11 months ago
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Episode 386
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their clai…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 153
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinqui…
2 years, 11 months ago
Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 187
In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions-studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal form…
2 years, 11 months ago
Yvette Taylor, "Working-Class Queers: Time, Place, and Politics" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 388
What is the relationship between class and sexuality? In Working-Class Queers: Time, Place and Politics (Pluto Press, 2023), Yvette Taylor, Professor…
2 years, 11 months ago