Debunking The Right's Bad History of Abortion Laws w/ Leslie Reagan
Prof. Leslie Reagan is the probably the country's leading expert on the history of abortion laws. Her award-winning book When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-...
20 Jul 202244min
Robin D.G. Kelley on the Importance of Utopian Visions for Social Movements
Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of American History at UCLA. His classic study Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination is about to be re-released in a 20th Anniversary Edition. The book looks a...
20 Jul 202246min
The 20-Year Catastrophe of the War In Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan was a calamity from the start and four US presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) have deceived the American public about it as they wrecked the country. This is the inescapable ...
20 Jul 202245min
Oxford and the Making of the British Ruling Class
Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper's book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK argues that in order to understand how power works in the UK, you have to examine Oxford Univers...
7 Jul 202238min
Why Web3 Is Going Just Great (w/ Molly White)
Molly White is the world's foremost critic of cryptocurrency, according to a recent profile in the Washington Post. A veteran Wikipedia editor and software developer, White documents the frauds and ca...
7 Jul 202241min
Thinking About Police After Uvalde and the San Francisco Prosecutor Recall (w/ Alex Vitale)
Alex Vitale is one of the country's foremost experts on policing and criminal punishment. He is a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he coordinates the Poli...
7 Jul 202245min
Unearthing Queer History in America
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator who unearths and preserves lost queer history. His books When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women's House of Detention both tell stories of LGBTQ life before Stonewall, ...
7 Jul 202241min
Destroying Democracy in Education: The Case of New Orleans
Celeste Lay is a professor of political science at Tulane University and the author of Public Schools, Private Governance: Education Reform and Democracy in New Orleans, which discusses the New Orlean...
7 Jul 202252min
