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Recent Episodes

Ebola in West Africa with Adia Benton

Posted May 23, 2020 • 01:19:22

Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today. Please...

Science for the People with Nafis Hasan and Frank Rosenthal

Posted May 16, 2020 • 02:05:27

Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing...

From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser

Posted May 9, 2020 • 01:21:34

Dan is playing catch up. Here's a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing...

Don’t Blame Robots with Aaron Benanav

Posted May 1, 2020 • 02:08:47

Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn't that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits...

Bigger Than Bernie with Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht

Posted April 23, 2020 • 01:10:43

Dan interviews Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, the authors of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, to assess...