058. The Expanse: Not Utopian, Not Dystopian, Just Topian -- Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck

058. The Expanse: Not Utopian, Not Dystopian, Just Topian -- Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck

The authors behind the award-winning novel and TV series The Expanse join me to discuss the politics and sociology of the science fiction future they've created. The Expanse is not a dystopia or a utopia, just a regular ole topia, in which corporations and governments continue to compete and cooperate both with each other and with resistance movements and labor unions. But in space!

Daniel, Ty, and I discuss the historical analogues for the governments and resistance movements in The Expanse, the humanity of their characters, and how the series differs from its peers The Wire and Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.

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196. Shay's Rebellion as Honorable Anarchy -- Daniel Bullen

196. Shay's Rebellion as Honorable Anarchy -- Daniel Bullen

Shays' Rebellion was a nonviolent, popular movement designed to stop corrupt Massachusetts elites from lining their pockets at the expense of workers. It worked, and is thus a perfect example of "self...

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195. The Fascist Appeal of The Movies -- David Thomson

195. The Fascist Appeal of The Movies -- David Thomson

David Thomson joins me to discuss his new book, A Sudden Flicker of Light. Although we both love movies, we've noticed that movies have distorted our way of seeing the world, changed our sense of real...

8 Juli 54min

194. The Boston Tea Party as Direct Action -- Benjamin Carp

194. The Boston Tea Party as Direct Action -- Benjamin Carp

Historian Benjamin Carp joins me to discuss The Boston Tea Party and how we should remember it today. We particularly discuss the tea party's place in revolutionary history, the radicalism embedded in...

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193. Ancient Anarchy -- Christopher B. Zeichmann

193. Ancient Anarchy -- Christopher B. Zeichmann

Christopher B. Zeichmann joins me to discuss his new book about ancient anarchism. We discuss the way the origins of the word anarchy, the way that democracy and anarchy have long been linked, and how...

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192. Can AI be Saved From Capitalism? -- Cory Doctorow

192. Can AI be Saved From Capitalism? -- Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow joins me to discuss how capitalist ideology has made AI worse than useless, and if there's a way for us to make AI useful rather than malicioushttps://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780374621568

24 Juni 54min

191. The Deep American Constitution -- Mark Peterson

191. The Deep American Constitution -- Mark Peterson

In this episode of Radicalism in the American Revolution, Historian Mark Peterson joins me to discuss his new book The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History. We dis...

10 Juni 51min

190. Anarchism is...Cooking -- Mark Bittman

190. Anarchism is...Cooking -- Mark Bittman

The fastest, easiest way to anarchize your life is to buy food locally and cook it yourself (or grow it yourself). It won't create an anarchist society. But it's a great first step.Mark Bittman and I ...

27 Maj 55min

189. What's East of "the West" ? -- Anthony Kaldellis

189. What's East of "the West" ? -- Anthony Kaldellis

Before it became west of Islam, or China, or "the Orient," "The West" was simply the Western Roman Empire, and what it was east of was the Eastern Roman Empire. But the westerners wanted to be the tru...

20 Maj 1h 5min

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