ACFM Trip 42: Fascism
A lot of people are saying that fascism is on the rise. But what are we pointing to when we call a system, or a person, fascist? On this Trip, Nadia, Keir and Jem map out a complicated ideology, from ...
21 Huhti 20241h 52min
Novara FM: London’s Endless Appetite w/ Jonathan Nunn and Amardeep Singh Dhillon
London is a foodie metropolis: undoubtedly one of the best places to eat in the world. But eating in London is also, like everything else in the city, shaped by its history as the capital of a globe-s...
18 Huhti 20241h 14min
Novara FM: Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick w/ Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Centuries of colonial capitalism have reordered life on the planet and inside our bodies, from industrial farming and the uneven advances of modern medicine, to night shifts, chronic stress and inflam...
11 Huhti 20241h 15min
Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin
Abby Martin is an American journalist and activist, host of the interview series The Empire Files, and a co-founder of the citizen journalism website Media Roots. She joins Ash Sarkar to discuss her p...
8 Huhti 20241h 1min
Novara FM: What’s Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano
Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? In a divisive new book, barrister Nick Bano places the blame squarely on price-gouging landlords, rejecting the conventional wisdom that calls for more new ho...
4 Huhti 20241h 6min
Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler
For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world’s most cited academics, Judith Butler. Their new book, ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender’ charts how a ...
1 Huhti 202455min
Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll
With hindsight, the wars waged by the US and Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq look like terrible failures, both strategically and politically: the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and living s...
25 Maalis 20241h 5min
Novara FM: Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick w/ Anna Kornbluh
We’re living in a world of hurry and shortcuts, of intimacy on tap and just-in-time production. Immediacy, according to Anna Kornbluh, is the link between flow-states and Fleabag, between food deliver...
21 Maalis 20241h 11min
