Oxford and the Making of the British Ruling Class
Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper's book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK argues that in order to understand how power works in the UK, you have to examine Oxford Univers...
7 Juli 202238min
Why Web3 Is Going Just Great (w/ Molly White)
Molly White is the world's foremost critic of cryptocurrency, according to a recent profile in the Washington Post. A veteran Wikipedia editor and software developer, White documents the frauds and ca...
7 Juli 202241min
Thinking About Police After Uvalde and the San Francisco Prosecutor Recall (w/ Alex Vitale)
Alex Vitale is one of the country's foremost experts on policing and criminal punishment. He is a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he coordinates the Poli...
7 Juli 202245min
Unearthing Queer History in America
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator who unearths and preserves lost queer history. His books When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women's House of Detention both tell stories of LGBTQ life before Stonewall, ...
7 Juli 202241min
Destroying Democracy in Education: The Case of New Orleans
Celeste Lay is a professor of political science at Tulane University and the author of Public Schools, Private Governance: Education Reform and Democracy in New Orleans, which discusses the New Orlean...
7 Juli 202252min
How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander
The architect Christopher Alexander died recently. As the (surprisingly good) New York Times obituary described him: [Alexander] believed that ordinary people, not just trained architects, should have...
7 Juli 202256min
Current Affairs Book Club: The Novels of Sally Rooney
The bestselling novels of Sally Rooney have been subject to endless chatter. She has been hailed as the great millennial novelist by some, her work called "extraordinarily lucid, gorgeous and nuanced....
7 Juli 20221h 1min
How Can We Plan a Viable Eco-Socialist Future That Everyone Likes?
One of the most fascinating and thought-provoking books of our time is Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso) by Troy Vettese and Drew Pe...
7 Juli 202257min
