Michael and Us: My Orwell Left or Right
George Orwell's popularity is at a new high in the post-Trump era, and he's been claimed by both the left and right. We discuss NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1984), Michael Radford's feature-film adaptation o...
7 Mar 202348min
Behind the News: Trans Kids Panic w/ Judith Levine
Doug interviews Judith Levine about the trans kids panic and moves to defund the Kinsey Institute. Phil Wegner of the University of Florida discusses Ron DeSantis’s moves to quash academic freedom in ...
6 Mar 202353min
The Dig: American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of st...
5 Mar 20231h 22min
Michael and Us: I Am Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Abbas Kiarostami's masterpiece CLOSE-UP (1990) used the true story of a poor man who impersonated a famous filmmaker to meditate on class, identity, and the cinematic apparatus. PLUS: the slow erosion...
1 Mar 202354min
Behind the News: Railroad Workers w/ Ron Kaminkow & Kari Lydersen
Doug speaks with Jamie Webster of BCG about western Europe’s energy situation. Then Kari Lydersen, author of a recent In These Times article, and Ron Kaminkow, locomotive engineer and organizer with R...
27 Feb 202353min
The Dig: Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American ...
26 Feb 20231h 48min
Long Reads: Pakistan's Political Crisis w/ Ayyaz Mallick
Since the late 1990s, Pakistan has experienced several rounds of intense political turbulence. But the crisis unfolding today may be the most dramatic episode to date. The ousted prime minister Imran ...
24 Feb 20231h 13min
Michael and Us: Empire Records w/ Meagan Day & Branko Marcetic
Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin's Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic for a roundtable discussion on EMPIRE RECORDS (199...
23 Feb 20231h 15min
