The ABCs: Does Human Nature Make Socialism Impossible? with Adaner Usmani
Sure, the concept of socialism sounds nice, but people aren’t very nice, right? Isn’t capitalism much more suited to human nature — a nature dominated by competitiveness and venality? Isn't socialism ...
15 Mar 201740min
The Dig: What the Media Doesn't Get About the Left, with Dave Weigel
On the Left, few forms of mainstream journalism are more detested than political reporting. It often substitutes the horse race for substance, dresses up conventional inside-the-Beltway wisdom as real...
14 Mar 20171h 8min
The ABCs: Why Do Socialists Care So Much About Workers? with Vivek Chibber
Socialists put the working class at the center of their political vision. But why, exactly?Vivek Chibber, Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Sp...
9 Mar 201742min
The Dig: Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump, with Charlene Carruthers
The Movement for Black Lives’ insistence that black lives matter is deceptively straightforward and minimal. But it has transformed black politics, and American politics as a whole. From the tension a...
7 Mar 20171h 2min
Stockton to Malone #2: White Privilege vs. Obama's Jordans
Episode 2 of Stockton to Malone. No interview here, just RL and Micah discussing RL's performance of the socialist equivalent of Kendrick Lamar's "Control" at the Young Democratic Socialists conferenc...
2 Mar 201732min
The Dig: Marie Gottschalk on Mass Incarceration and Trump's Carceral State
Mass incarceration should be central to any analysis of American political economy. It's also a moral monstrosity. But before The New Jim Crow and anti-mass incarceration activists across the country ...
1 Mar 201756min
Matt Karp and Eric Foner on US Slaveholders' Foreign Policy
American slaveholders before the Civil War oversaw an incredibly brutal economic system that generated enormous wealth for a tiny elite while denying enslaved Africans the most basic rights. But they ...
27 Feb 201742min
The Promise and Pitfalls of Fighting Trump
The horrors of the Trump administration have shown no signs of slowing in the month he has been in office. But so far, neither has the pushback we've seen in the streets. The protests have reminded El...
24 Feb 201731min
