Marx and the Politics of Need with George Boss (Routledge, 2026)
When one hears about needs in the context of politics, one might imagine that they are dealing with facts that simply cannot be circumvented. Moving from this idea, Boss sees a tension, one in which p...
7 Nov 48min
Disability, Revolution with Robert McRuer (U California Press, 2026)
What revolutionary disability politics look like today, with lessons for larger liberatory movements. In recent political times, disability identity has been mobilized in ways that paradoxically compo...
6 Nov 53min
Meta-Theory, with Brendan Graham Dempsey
Today I sit down with Brendan Graham Dempsey, Director of Research at the Institute of Applied Metatheory, where he thinks about human meaning-making systems. It’s rare that I have someone on the pod ...
4 Nov 58min
Orson Welles: Revised and Expanded 3rd Edition with Joseph McBride (Sticking Place Books, 2026)
Orson Welles is a foundational work of Welles criticism. First published by Joseph McBride in the British Film Institute's Cinema One series in 1972 when the author was twenty-four, it now has been ex...
3 Nov 51min
An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class with Ewan Gibbs (Verso, 2026)
Whatever happened to the working class? A compelling new social history of Britain since 1945From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon warehouses of today, the British working class ha...
2 Nov 1h 11min
Subalterns and the State with Lisa Mitchell and Hari Ramesh
This episode features a conversation with historical anthropologist Lisa Mitchell and political theorist Hari Ramesh whose recent books make a case against anti-state thinking in social and political ...
2 Nov 1h 11min
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe with John Callanan (Princeton UP, 2025)
In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy and licentious bees trade their vices for virtues ...
2 Nov 52min
The Invisibility Of Religion In Contemporary Art with Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins
In this episode of the Books for Better Understanding series from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson hosts Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins for a discussion of Anderson's new book, The Invisibility ...
2 Nov 48min
