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Latest Episodes

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

Crypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 23, 2024

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cullar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukeles authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvad

Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 18, 2024

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cullar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary armed