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Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce

Posted June 17, 202502:28:36

Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis....

From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn

Posted June 8, 202502:09:06

Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020’s summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd....

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Posted May 29, 202502:42:33

Featuring Derek Guy on the politics, history, economics, and style of Western menswear. Guest hosted by Dennis M. Hogan.

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Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian

Posted May 19, 202502:34:25

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist...

A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Posted May 10, 202500:55:41

Featuring Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing French party La France Insoumise. How the radical left confronts and then defeats the far-right,...