News Brief: A Conversation With Indigenous Media Resistance on Mauna Kea
In Ep. 90, "How Western Media's False Binary Between 'Science' & Indigenous Rights Erases Native People," we explored the ways capital-S "Science" has been wielded by those in power to erase Native pe...
20 Nov 201937min
News Brief: Bolivia Coup Coverage and the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse
In this News Brief, we discuss the battle over whether or not to call what happened in Bolivia a "coup," and the problem with the always popular, slippery evocation of "agency."
15 Nov 201924min
Episode 93: 100 Years of U.S. Media Fueling Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
"A preponderance of foreign elements destroys the most precious thing [a nation] possesses - its own soul," wrote the politically-influential Immigration Restriction League in early 1919. "The great h...
13 Nov 20191h
Episode 92: The Responsibility-Erasing Catch-all of 'Automation'
"As technology shifts more layoffs loom at tech companies," Reuters tells us. "PepsiCo is laying off corporate employees as the company commits to millions of dollars in severance pay, restructuring, ...
30 Okt 20191h 7min
Episode 91: It's Time to Retire the Term "Middle Class"
"Building a wall won't save America's crumbling middle class," Elizabeth Warren tells us. "Sanders healthcare will raise taxes on the middle class," a CNN headline reads. "There' war on the middle cla...
23 Okt 201954min
Episode 90: How Western Media's False Binary Between "Science" and Indigenous Rights is Used to Erase Native People
"Science and religion fight over Hawaii's highest point," one CNN headline puts it. "Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers?" BBC asks. "Science, Interrupted: Mauna Kea Observatories 'caught...
16 Okt 20191h 5min
Episode 89: How Charges of 'Appeasement' Equate Diplomacy with Treason
"Israel says EU's response on Iran recalls Nazi appeasement," reported Reuters. "The Biden Plan for Appeasement," spat a recent editorial in The New York Sun. An editorial in The Washington Examiner p...
9 Okt 201943min
Episode 88: The Mythical Bygone Glory Days of "Free Speech"
We are often warned by conservatives, liberals and even some on the Left that we live in a time where "free speech" is under threat from far-left forces. "Political correctness" and "snowflakes" have ...
25 Sep 201956min
