124. The Early Quakers -- Kate Peters (English Revolution)
Kate Peters, author of Print Culture and the Early Quakers, joins me to discuss the Quakers, the last of the radical groups we're covering the English Revolution series. You can hear about how the Qua...
29 Maj 20241h 26min
123. Debt Discussion 6: Graeber as Grand Theorist with Fuad Musallam
In this debt discussion, Fuad and I discuss Chapter 6 of Debt, "Games with Sex and Death," and especially the way that Graeber is writing in the grand theory tradition of anthropology. Fuad also taugh...
22 Maj 20241h 8min
122. The Fifth Monarchists -- Bernard Capp (English Revolution)
In the next episode of Radicalism in the English Revolution, I'm joined by Bernard Capp to discuss The Fifth Monarchists - a radical protestant sect that was trying to bring about the end of the world...
15 Maj 20241h 10min
121. Graeber's Debt Chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death
Graeber explains human economies, economies in which money can only be used to shore up social relations, and can't be used to buy things - to the utter confusion of anthropologists trying to buy thin...
8 Maj 202443min
120. Richard Rorty's Anti-Authoritarianism -- John McGowan and Meili Steele
My former professors John McGowan and Meili Steele join me to discuss Richard Rorty's final book, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.
1 Maj 20241h 1min
119. Debt Discussion 5: The Sterility of Economics with James K. Galbraith
James K. Galbraith joins me to discuss the flaws in the field of economics and its pseudoscientific justifications
24 Apr 202452min
118. The Films of Preston Sturges -- Stuart Klawans
Stuart Klawans joins me to discuss his recent book Crooked but Never Common about the films of Preston Sturges, the first writer-director of the Hollywood sound era. Informed by the work of Stanley Ca...
17 Apr 202451min
117. Graeber's Debt Chapter 5, The Moral Ground of Economic Relations
The chapter of Debt which inspired this podcast - get ready to hear the origin of everyday anarchism!
10 Apr 202455min
