How The Super-Rich Really Live (w/ Michael Mechanic)
Michael Mechanic is a senior editor at Mother Jones and the author of Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All. Michael's book goes beyond quantitative statistics abou...
19 Tammi 202451min
How to Explain Socialism To People Who Aren't Socialists (w/ Danny Katch)
Danny Katch is the author of the most accessible and entertaining existing introduction to socialist ideas, Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide To Human Liberation, available from Haymarket Books (in...
17 Tammi 202449min
Exposing the Spurious Anti-Semitism Accusations That Helped Bring Down Corbyn (w/ Asa Winstanley)
Asa Winstanley of The Electronic Intifada is the author of the new book Weaponising Anti-Semitism, a bombshell exposé of how the burgeoning socialist movement in the British Labour Party was destroyed...
15 Tammi 202446min
Dreaming of a World Without Wells Fargo (w/ Terri Friedline)
Terri Friedline is an associate professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She's also a contributor to Current Affairs, where she published one of our most unusual pieces ever: a piece of...
12 Tammi 202439min
How "Influencing" Became an Industry (w/ Emily Hund)
Emily Hund is the author of The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media. Today she joins to discuss how "influencing" turned from something bloggers did, organically, to a gian...
10 Tammi 202432min
Why Americans Don't See Or Talk About Their Wars (w/ Norman Solomon)
Today Norman Solomon returns to the program to discuss his new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. Norman is one of the country's leading progressive med...
8 Tammi 202443min
What "Economic Freedom" Would Look Like (w/ Mark Paul)
Mark Paul is an economist who argues that there can be no meaningful freedom without economic freedom—by which he does not mean the libertarian idea of the freedom to exploit others. Mark's book The E...
5 Tammi 202439min
Can The Love of Menswear Be Justified? (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
Samuel Miller McDonald is a regular contributor to Current Affairs, where he has written about such disparate subjects as collectivism, the food system, Game of Thrones, cultural atrophy, ecofascism, ...
3 Tammi 202441min
