Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-pushing discipline, grown out of struggle and commun...
29 Dec 20221h 32min
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope...
28 Dec 20221h 23min
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that res...
27 Dec 20221h 5min
The Partially Examined Life: A Conversation with Wes Alwan
"The Partially Examined Life" is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it." In this interview, I chat with PEL host, W...
26 Dec 202241min
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID era...
26 Dec 202243min
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community. Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri...
25 Dec 202243min
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz's book The Philosophy of Marronage (Filosofía del cimarronaje) theorizes the broader context behind the notion of "cimarronaje," marronage. Usually conceived of as enslaved peoples'...
25 Dec 202254min
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade of the movement. The challenges, the setbacks, the ac...
25 Dec 20221h 52min
