Michael and Us: Embrace the Fire w/ Alex Shephard
By the third entry of the God's Not Dead franchise, its creative team had clearly started listening to their critics. The result was a kinder, gentler right-wing Evangelical Christian drama that sough...
16 Huhti 202453min
Behind the News: Israel and the World Court w/ Heidi Matthews
Heidi Matthews surveys cases against Israel pending at the the World Court. Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, talks about Jelly Roll Morton and the hidden history of early blues music.Behind th...
15 Huhti 202453min
The Dig: Thawra Ep. 7 - United Arab Republic Against Eisenhower
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SEVENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the the US’s Eisenhower...
10 Huhti 20241h 25min
Michael and Us: Sit Down, Sit Down
For seven weeks in 1936 and 1937, workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a risky sit-down strike. A true David vs. Goliath story, their strike won recognition for the United Auto ...
10 Huhti 202450min
Behind the News: Weaponizing 'Safe Space' Discourse w/ Natasha Lennard
Trita Parsi explains why Israel is trying to expand its war to Iran and Hezbollah. Natasha Lennard analyzes the Zionist appropriation of leftish “safe space” discourse. And Stefan Yong explores the st...
6 Huhti 202453min
Long Reads: J. B. S. Haldane's Science and Socialism w/ Samanth Subramanian
J. B. S. Haldane was one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century. He played an important role in the development of genetics and the theory of evolution. Haldane was also a tireless pol...
4 Huhti 20241h 4min
Behind the News: How Israel Exploits the Shoah w/ Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra, author of a recent article for the London Review of Books, "The Shoah after Gaza," talks about the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust. Nancy Folbre, co-author of a recent re...
3 Huhti 202453min
The Dig: Thawra Ep. 6 - Cold War Heats Up
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SIXTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the intensification of th...
2 Huhti 20242h 8min
