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Gary Younge: from Mandela to Black Lives Matter; plus Amy Wilentz on Haiti in September | Start Making Sense
Gary Younge, the award-winning former columnist for The Guardian, talks about Black writing and Black writers—and his own writing about Mandela, Obam…
2 years, 11 months ago
Chamique Holdsclaw on Depression and Fame | Edge of Sports
Chamique Holdsclaw's legendary status was apparent from the moment she entered professional sports. After helping the US National Team win the Gold M…
2 years, 11 months ago
Naomi Klein and Her Doppelganger | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
On this episode of the Time of Monsters podcast, Laura Marsh discusses Noami Klein's new book, Doppleganger, about Noami Wolf.
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2 years, 11 months ago
Heather Cox Richardson on ‘Our Authoritarian Experiment,’ Plus Chile Since Allende | Start Making Sense
Every night, more than a million people read Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter about the day’s political events. Now she has a new book out, “Democ…
2 years, 11 months ago
Basketball Butterfly Effect Part III: MJ in Portland? | Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin
This week on the Edge of Sports Podcast, part three of our discussion with basketball savant Arya Shirazi about basketball butterfly effects. This ti…
2 years, 11 months ago
Oppenheimer’s Inopportune Opportunism | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the rarest of things: a summer blockbuster that is super-smart and repays close analysis. Two weeks ago, this podc…
3 years ago
Our Hot Labor Summer, plus Melania, Ivanka, and the Indictments | Start Making Sense
Our hot labor summer continues. Harold Meyerson, editor at large of The American Prospect, comes on the Start Making Sense podcast to discuss the com…
3 years ago
The Trump Wannabees | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The GOP held their first presidential debate for the 2024 election cycle and the crowded stage was notable for a significant absence.
Former president…
3 years ago
Drew Faust Remembers the Sixties, plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and Georgia | Start Making Sense
Drew Faust grew up in Virginia in the ’50’s, in the segregated south, in a family that was part of the white elite—and went on to make “necessary tro…
3 years ago
Delegitimize The Supreme Court | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
This is the eighth and final episode of Contempt of Court, our podcast series about reforming the Supreme Court. On this episode, we’re going to talk…
3 years ago