Novara FM: How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas? w/ adrienne maree brown
In their new book Loving Corrections, adrienne maree brown poses a crucial conundrum for all progressive thinkers: how do we liberate people from bad ideas? One of America’s most energetic thinkers ta...
31 Okt 202459min
Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith
What if instead of talking about history from the perspective of humanity, we told it from the perspective of the resources that made human expansion possible? Sunil Amrith is a historian and author o...
28 Okt 20241h 1min
Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour
Around the world, far-right movements are mobilising support by placing the blame for real catastrophes – Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, their own riots and insurrections – on entirely made-up enemies,...
24 Okt 20241h 34min
Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson
From pollinating crops to managing organic waste on a continental scale, insects are vital to life on Earth. They are also disappearing. Dave Goulson is an entomologist and ecologist whose books commu...
22 Okt 20241h 50min
Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’ w/ Elia Ayoub
What does Israel hope to achieve this time, nearly 20 years after its last failed ground offensive in Lebanon? And how should we understand its adversary, a political party that also functions as a fi...
17 Okt 20241h 19min
Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton
Stephanie Kelton is an author and economist, and subject of the new film ‘Finding The Money’. Her work as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and as an advisor to Bernie Sanders has put her front an...
14 Okt 202459min
ACFM Trip 46: Death
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew take a leftwing look at mortality in this Trip, asking how capitalism has altered our approach to the...
13 Okt 20241h 43min
Novara FM: When Does A Crowd Become A Mob? w/ Dan Hancox
The English language is full of pejoratives for large groups of people: mob mentality. Herd behaviour. Crowd contagion. Much of this apprehension stems from one of the most influential works of psycho...
10 Okt 20241h 15min
