Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKatha Pollitt’s End-of-Year Giving List, plus Bob Dylan’s Xmas Album | Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
Our holiday giving list: Katha Pollitt presents her list of groups that need—and deserve—our support: Gaza aid, abortion assistance, and organizing a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Feminists and rape: the case of Hamas; plus Moms for Liberty | Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
Why have American feminist groups been slow to condemn rapes of Israeli women and girls by Hamas? that’s the question posed by Katha Pollitt, The Nat…
2 years, 5 months ago
Democrats are Sleepwalking Toward a Trump Victory; plus Israel’s future | Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
Joe Biden has historic achievements as president, but polls show him to be the candidate least able to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Demo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Biden’s Bear Hug Disaster | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, I talked to Yousef Munayyer, a Palestinian-American analyst who heads the Palestine/Israel Program at the Ar…
2 years, 5 months ago
Randi Weingarten on the Peace Movement in Israel; Gary Younge on ‘Rustin’ | Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, spent Thanksgiving weekend in Israel; she reports on meetings with shared society groups and peace movement l…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kissinger’s Corruption and Palestinian Solutions | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Matt Duss and Jeet Heer on moving on beyond war.
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Basketball Butterfly Effect: Steph Curry & the Knicks | Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin
In Part 6 of our series, Basketball Butterfly Effect, Arya Shirazi joins the show again to discuss the 2009 NBA draft and the Knicks coming close to …
2 years, 5 months ago
Ending the War in Gaza: D.D. Guttenplan; plus John Powers on 'Slow Horses' | Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
People with very different visions of what a just peace between Israel and the Palestinians might look like must work together to stop the war: That’…
2 years, 6 months ago
Garry Wills and the Real Kennedy Curse | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
For this week's episode of The Time of Monsters, I’m doing a joint podcast with the crew from Know York Enemy (Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman) talkin…
2 years, 6 months ago
Why We Need the Israeli Left Now More Than Ever | Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
What comes after Israel’s war on Hamas? The Israeli government seems incapable of thinking about that. Now, the ideas of Israel’s left-wing, pro-peac…
2 years, 6 months ago