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Recent Episodes

Ruins of Neoliberalism with Wendy Brown

Posted October 24, 2020 • 01:50:22

Political theorist Wendy Brown on how neoliberalism attacked society and democracy and in doing so laid the foundation for right-wing authoritarianism...

Unforgetting with Roberto Lovato

Posted October 16, 2020 • 01:47:36

Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission,...

SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law

Posted October 9, 2020 • 01:45:55

Dan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court veneration,...

Arctic Energy Frontiers with Bathsheba Demuth

Posted October 2, 2020 • 02:00:41

Bathsheba Demuth on her monumental book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. From the 19th century through today, governments...

Demystifying Big Tech with Meredith Whittaker

Posted September 25, 2020 • 02:08:55

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that's remaking capitalism,...