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Latest Episodes

Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
February 25, 2025

Featuring Olfmi O. Tw, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions

Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr
February 17, 2025

Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that's been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social medi

Deportation Nation w/ Chris Newman
February 09, 2025

Featuring Chris Newman on Trump's far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats' cruel and stupid complicity. - Read All-American Nativism versobooks.com/products/704-all-american-nativism - Read Dan's

Building the Union w/ Hannah Srajer
February 01, 2025

Featuring Hannah Srajer on building tenant unions by applying labor organizing models. The Connecticut Tenants Union is partnered with SEIU 1199NE to organize fighting super majority tenant unions tha

Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
January 27, 2025

Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transform Los Angeles, the country, and the world. - Suppor

Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
January 19, 2025

Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the U

Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
January 11, 2025

Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Halls Marxisma Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory

Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria w/ Bassam Haddad
December 22, 2024

Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assads rise and falland what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assads

Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield
December 18, 2024

Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxie

MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
November 29, 2024

Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trumps triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA