Have the Suburbs Ruined Everything? (w/ Bill McKibben)
Bill McKibben is a legendary activist and writer whose 1989 book The End of Nature introduced the problem of global warming to a general audience. Since then, he has been one of the world's leading en...
31 Jul 202242min
A Set of Progressive Economic Principles That Can Actually Win Elections
Things do not look good for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party right now. Polls show that nearly 3/4 of Americans, including a staggering 94% of people under 30, do not want Biden to run for reelectio...
31 Jul 202250min
A Neuroscientist Critiques the Dangerous "Populist" Pseudoscience of Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian whose books have been major bestsellers, praised by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama. Harari not only offers a sweeping chronicle of the human pa...
31 Jul 202255min
Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Pioneering blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been an activist for online freedom since the early days of the history of the internet. He has long been one of the major voices opposi...
31 Jul 202244min
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
