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Recent Episodes

Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz

Posted April 24, 2021 • 02:12:36

US empire in the Philippines, Filipino migration, labor organizing in the fields, and the nativist campaign for Asian exclusion. Dan interviews Rick...

Combat Liberalism w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Mindy Isser, & Zachary Hershman

Posted April 16, 2021 • 02:00:05

Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion: The Liberal to...

Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly

Posted April 11, 2021 • 01:24:04

Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government's Red Scare attacks on Black radicals. Read...

Asian America w/ Andy Liu, Jay Caspian Kang, & Tammy Kim

Posted April 1, 2021 • 02:00:22

Dan interviews the hosts of Time to Say Goodbye podcast on Asian American politics and identity. Check out Time to Say Goodbye wherever you get podcasts. Support...

Counterculture to Cyberculture with Fred Turner

Posted March 26, 2021 • 02:05:15

How the 60s counterculture went on to make the techno-utopian ideology that suffuses our techno-dystopian reality. Dan interviews Fred Turner on his...