The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas... Gal Beckerman talks about his new book
Gal Beckerman has written a book about the engines of social change and examines why revolutions ignite and then flame out.
7 Jul 202258min
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Detroit... Professor Josiah Rector talks about his new book.
Assistant Professor Josiah Rector from the University of Houston specializes in 20th century U.S. urban environmental history and the history of the environmental justice movement. He has written a bo...
29 Jun 202258min
Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard Update
Free Renty tells the story of her efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. This past Thursday...
25 Jun 20222min
David Grubin & Tamara Lanier talk about the documentary: Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard
Free Renty tells the story of Tamara Lanier's efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes(da·guerre·o·type) of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man na...
21 Jun 202258min
Professor Samuel Moyn talks about his book: Humane:How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with sp...
16 Jun 202255min
Professor Didier Fassin talks about his book: Policing the City: An Ethno-graphic
Our guest is Professor Did-ee-aa Fassin from the Institute for Advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a French anthropologist and sociologist who has adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing...
9 Jun 20221h 1min
Professor Michael Brenner talks about misguided American activities in Ukraine.
Michael Brenner is Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He challenges American activities in Ukraine and says that American dissent on Ukraine is dying in darkn...
1 Jun 202257min
Marxist-Leninist writer Greg Godels talks about the Russia- Ukraine War
Greg Godel writes in MLToday: "Amidst echoes of 1914 and World War I, the political left– far less potent than a century ago– is split between the contestants in a European war. As in 1914, the rush t...
25 Mai 202257min
