Behind the News: The Eternal Present w/ Anna Kornbluh
Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers’ Club, discusses the finance racket and how to transform it. Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy, examines our sped-up, unmediated cultural eternal present...
20 Helmi 202453min
Organize the Unorganized: From the Docks to the Killing Floors
On episode six of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, we go deeper into some of the key CIO unions: the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), the International Longs...
20 Helmi 202451min
Michael and Us: Eat the Rich
We discuss THE MENU (2022) and its place in the context of the current wave of "eat the rich" cinema. PLUS: we discuss Walter Isaacson's new hagiography of Elon Musk, and Joe Biden's wildly successful...
12 Helmi 202454min
Behind the News: Climate Politics w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Ajay Singh Chaudhary talks about his new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Matt Notowidigdo, co-author of a recent NBER paper, examines how recessions increase life expect...
9 Helmi 202453min
Long Reads: France's First Revolution w/ Justine Firnhaber-Baker
If you think about the French revolutionary tradition, you’re most likely to picture the storming of the Bastille and the overthrow of the monarchy. But that wasn’t the first time there was a major up...
8 Helmi 202444min
The Dig: Your Money Or Your Life w/ Luke Messac
Featuring Luke Messac on Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine. An estimated 100 million people in the US are in debt because they sought medical treatment. Medical debt exacer...
8 Helmi 20241h 52min
Michael and Us: Adaptation
Are commercial considerations always doomed to taint art? And are commercial considerations really a taint? We discuss Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's meta-movie ADAPTATION (2002) and the artist/hac...
7 Helmi 202459min
Organize the Unorganized: Little Steel
Episode five of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO examines the Little Steel strike in the summer of 1937. It was a tragic failure for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the CIO, on...
6 Helmi 202447min
