201. Five Years of Everyday Anarchism! -- Ruth Kinna
Ruth Kinna joins me for the Fifth Anniversary Episodes! First, an announcement: I wrote a book to be published by PM Press introducing everyday anarchism. No publication date yet, so more later on tha...
9 Sep 1h 1min
200. Ann Leckie
For my 200th episode, I invited science fiction writer Ann Leckie to the show! Ann's novels are one of the original inspirations for the podcast. Ann has imagined worlds which are completely human, an...
2 Sep 1h 6min
199. Utopian Thinking -- Rhiannon Firth
Rhiannon Firth joins me to discuss Journey Through Utopia, Mary Louise Berneri's anarchist survey of utopian thinking. Rhiannon and I discuss why so many utopias seem so totalitarian, and how we can i...
26 Aug 47min
198. The Age of Revolutions in the Americas -- Arturo Chang
It's generally accepted that there was an "age of revolutions" in Europe in the 18th and 19th century. Sometimes the American revolution is added. But there were many, many revolutions in the Caribbea...
19 Aug 47min
197. Seeing Paris Behind the Postcard -- Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri rejoins me to discuss his new novel/memoir/essay, Chateau Rouge. The book is about a writer who finds himself in a region of Paris, Chateau Rouge, filled with immigrants and their small...
12 Aug 54min
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...
22 Juli 58min
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
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...
4 Juli 54min
