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Recent Episodes

The Trump Doctrine and Its Mandarin Detractors

Posted June 29, 2018 •

Stephen Wertheim, a Lecturer in American and international history at Birkbeck, University of London, breaks cuts through the suffocating...

Whither White Ethnics with Matthew Frye Jacobson

Posted June 27, 2018 •

Everyone wants to know what's wrong with Appalachia. But beginning in the 1960s, it was "white ethics"—Italians, Irish, Polish, Jews and other non-WASPs—who...

Child Casualties of the Border War

Posted June 22, 2018 •

Vox immigration reporter Dara Lind, one very bright spot in an often disappointing landscape of mainstream immigration journalism, discusses the historical,...

David Harvey on Capital

Posted June 20, 2018 •

David Harvey has taught Capital to huge numbers of people everywhere. Dan interviews him about his latest book, Marx, Capital and the Madness...

Naomi Klein and Mercedes Martínez: The Battle for Puerto Rico

Posted June 12, 2018 •

The US colony of Puerto Rico has been repeatedly shocked and Puerto Ricans are traumatized. That is precisely what successful shock doctrines like this...