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Recent Episodes

From the River to the Sea w/ Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi

Posted May 22, 2021 • 01:33:12

Dan speaks with Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi: an in-depth interview on Israeli apartheid and dispossession, the history and future of the Palestinian...

Gaza with Aya Alghazzawi & Issam Adwan

Posted May 18, 2021 • 01:02:22

Two voices from Gaza. The first of two episodes on Palestine this week with teacher and BDS activist Aya Alghazzawi and journalist Issam Adwan, project...

Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley

Posted May 15, 2021 • 02:15:20

Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Please support this podcast...

“Cancel Culture” w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield

Posted May 9, 2021 • 02:06:19

What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse...

Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

Posted April 30, 2021 • 02:06:02

Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary...