Michael and Us: The Futility Thesis
We return to a TV show that is one of the prime relics of mid-2000s libertarian culture. We watch episodes of PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! on topics as disparate from handicapped parking to reparations, b...
14 Heinä 202349min
Long Reads: Japan's Socialist Tradition w/ Kenji Hasegawa
Japan may be a powerhouse of global capitalism. But it also developed a powerful socialist movement in the twentieth century. During the Cold War, the Socialist Party led the opposition to the ruling ...
13 Heinä 20231h 4min
Behind the News: How Austerity Spawns Fascism w/ Clara Mattei
Clara Mattei, author of The Capital Order, explores the links among neoclassical economics, austerity, and fascism. Edwin Ackerman, author of a recent article for the New Left Review blog, looks at AM...
10 Heinä 202353min
The Dig: The Manifesto w/ China Miéville
Featuring China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto. Miéville is the author of A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigRegister for Dan's event with Miévil...
9 Heinä 20232h 1min
Michael and Us: Deaths of Cinema
Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) hit the zeitgeist by consciously going against the 2019-era cultural grain. Tarantino looks back on the winds of change that greeted the movie ...
7 Heinä 202354min
Behind the News: The Confederate Diaspora
Anatol Lieven, Eurasia director of the Quincy Institute, discusses Prigozhin’s aborted uprising in Russia and Putin’s status. Samuel Bazzi, co-author of a paper on "The Confederate Diaspora," talks ab...
3 Heinä 202353min
Long Reads: William Morris, Romantic Revolutionary w/ Matthew Beaumont
William Morris is renowned for his work as an artist and designer. But he was also one of Britain's greatest socialist thinkers. Morris combined his opposition to capitalism with a deep understanding ...
29 Kesä 202350min
Michael and Us: In Soviet Russia, Game Plays You
Did Tetris bring down the USSR? That's the implication of TETRIS (2023), a highly fictionalized account of the beloved video game's journey from the Soviet Union to your phone. We examine what anti-Co...
28 Kesä 202354min
