Exposing the Spurious Anti-Semitism Accusations That Helped Bring Down Corbyn (w/ Asa Winstanley)
Asa Winstanley of The Electronic Intifada is the author of the new book Weaponising Anti-Semitism, a bombshell exposé of how the burgeoning socialist movement in the British Labour Party was destroyed...
15 Jan 202446min
Dreaming of a World Without Wells Fargo (w/ Terri Friedline)
Terri Friedline is an associate professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She's also a contributor to Current Affairs, where she published one of our most unusual pieces ever: a piece of...
12 Jan 202439min
How "Influencing" Became an Industry (w/ Emily Hund)
Emily Hund is the author of The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media. Today she joins to discuss how "influencing" turned from something bloggers did, organically, to a gian...
10 Jan 202432min
Why Americans Don't See Or Talk About Their Wars (w/ Norman Solomon)
Today Norman Solomon returns to the program to discuss his new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. Norman is one of the country's leading progressive med...
8 Jan 202443min
What "Economic Freedom" Would Look Like (w/ Mark Paul)
Mark Paul is an economist who argues that there can be no meaningful freedom without economic freedom—by which he does not mean the libertarian idea of the freedom to exploit others. Mark's book The E...
5 Jan 202439min
Can The Love of Menswear Be Justified? (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
Samuel Miller McDonald is a regular contributor to Current Affairs, where he has written about such disparate subjects as collectivism, the food system, Game of Thrones, cultural atrophy, ecofascism, ...
3 Jan 202441min
On Musical Plagiarism: The Case of Ed Sheeran vs. Marvin Gaye
Today on the podcast, we dive into the question of what kinds of musical borrowing constitute "influence" versus "plagiarism." In the news at the moment is a lawsuit against pop singer-songwriter Ed S...
20 Dec 202340min
How Socialists Took Over The Cities (w/ Shelton Stromquist)
Today we hear a little-told story, the story of how idealistic socialists around the world, starting around 1890, took over city governments. Prof. Sheldon Stromquist is the author of the book Claimi...
18 Dec 202335min
