Who Is Behind America's Cyclospora Summer?
James looks into the recent Cyclospora outbreak and what it can tell us about solidarity, food safety, and where our food comes from. Sources: https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/magazine/spring-2026/t...
17 Aug 25min
No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends
James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov...
17 Aug 29min
How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 1
Journalist Carlos Berríos Polanco talks with James, outlining the United States' overseas colonial empire and how it was started by a quest for bird poop. Sources: How to Hide an Empire: A History of...
17 Aug 41min
CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas
Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prisonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
16 Aug 44min
It Could Happen Here Weekly 245
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The Gen Z Protests that Shook India's Fascist Government GlobeCon: The New Liberals Take on DSA GlobeCon: Can Tech...
15 Aug 4h 6min
Executive Disorder: Flock Sabotage, Tariff Refunds for Corporations, Wisconsin Election
The gang discuss sabotage of Flock cameras across the country, immigration judge training documents, DOJ lawsuits over state tuition assistance for immigrants, Trump’s new anti-vax executive order, co...
14 Aug 1h 22min
How Ken Paxton Became The Most Corrupt Man In Texas Politics
Our Robert sits down with Texas journalist Robert Downen to discuss the rise and hopeful fall of Texas AG Ken Paxton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13 Aug 28min
GlobeCon: Can Technocratic Neoliberalism Save Us? Um no wtf?
Garrison talks with sociology professor Ben Rose Porter about the Center for New Liberalism’s anti-populist vision of "technocracy, cynical maneuvering, and liberal nationalism.” Sources: https://www...
12 Aug 54min
