Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Who is believed in our mediated world? In Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, 2023), Sarah Banet-Weiser, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsy...
5 Juli 202352min
Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)
In Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society (ILR Press, 2021), Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the Uni...
3 Juli 202356min
Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in January of that year, and it really concerns me rather than the world of political events, though th...
2 Juli 20231h 20min
Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023). It’s well known and almost taken for granted that we live in the midst of a “housing crisis”—soaring rent, ...
2 Juli 20231h 7min
Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
Darts and Letters is creating a new podcast, Academic Edgelords. This is a scholarly podcast about scholarly provocateurs. This is a leftist podcast that takes a second look at their peer-reviewed wor...
30 Juni 20231h 16min
Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel Smith, a lecturer in sociology at Cardiff Universi...
28 Juni 202348min
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim that Christianity “secretes” atheism “more than a...
28 Juni 202339min
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinquished its duties of care toward its citizens. Sara S...
27 Juni 202354min
