195. The Fascist Appeal of The Movies -- David Thomson
David Thomson joins me to discuss his new book, A Sudden Flicker of Light. Although we both love movies, we've noticed that movies have distorted our way of seeing the world, changed our sense of real...
8 Jul 54min
194. The Boston Tea Party as Direct Action -- Benjamin Carp
Historian Benjamin Carp joins me to discuss The Boston Tea Party and how we should remember it today. We particularly discuss the tea party's place in revolutionary history, the radicalism embedded in...
4 Jul 54min
193. Ancient Anarchy -- Christopher B. Zeichmann
Christopher B. Zeichmann joins me to discuss his new book about ancient anarchism. We discuss the way the origins of the word anarchy, the way that democracy and anarchy have long been linked, and how...
1 Jul 44min
192. Can AI be Saved From Capitalism? -- Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow joins me to discuss how capitalist ideology has made AI worse than useless, and if there's a way for us to make AI useful rather than malicioushttps://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780374621568
24 Jun 54min
191. The Deep American Constitution -- Mark Peterson
In this episode of Radicalism in the American Revolution, Historian Mark Peterson joins me to discuss his new book The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History. We dis...
10 Jun 51min
190. Anarchism is...Cooking -- Mark Bittman
The fastest, easiest way to anarchize your life is to buy food locally and cook it yourself (or grow it yourself). It won't create an anarchist society. But it's a great first step.Mark Bittman and I ...
27 Mai 55min
189. What's East of "the West" ? -- Anthony Kaldellis
Before it became west of Islam, or China, or "the Orient," "The West" was simply the Western Roman Empire, and what it was east of was the Eastern Roman Empire. But the westerners wanted to be the tru...
20 Mai 1h 5min
