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New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; September 08, 2022
The Twisted Science of Great Replacement Theory
47 mins; September 08, 2022
Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
51 mins; September 07, 2022
Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
43 mins; September 02, 2022
Philipp Felsch, "The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990" (Polity Press, 2021)
64 hours 54 mins; September 01, 2022
Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
83 hours 39 mins; September 01, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; September 01, 2022
Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)
51 mins; August 31, 2022
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, "Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind" (2020)
43 mins; August 30, 2022
Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
63 hours 26 mins; August 25, 2022
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
59 mins; August 24, 2022
Ben Rhodes, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made" (Random House, 2021)
57 mins; August 24, 2022
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
44 mins; August 23, 2022
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
58 mins; August 19, 2022
The Pavilion: When Canadians First Had to Confront the Country’s Genocidal Story
55 mins; August 18, 2022
Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)
69 hours 56 mins; August 18, 2022
Canada’s Dumbest Public Intellectual: Darts and Letters’ Most Coveted Award
75 hours 56 mins; August 17, 2022
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
46 mins; August 16, 2022
Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
98 hours 37 mins; August 16, 2022
Moisés Naím, "The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
23 mins; August 15, 2022
Don’t Look Left: A Discussion with David Sirota, writer of "Don't Look Up"
46 mins; August 15, 2022
Made of Corn: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
45 mins; August 12, 2022
Andrew Poe, "Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments" (Manchester UP, 2021)
63 hours 38 mins; August 12, 2022
Modifying Maize: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
55 mins; August 11, 2022
Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)
69 hours 27 mins; August 11, 2022
Jordan Denari Duffner, "Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination" (Orbis, 2021)
55 mins; August 11, 2022
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen, "Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars" (Metropolitan Books, 2022)
34 mins; August 10, 2022
The Colonial Lens: Analyzing Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Colonialism in Academia
61 hours 49 mins; August 10, 2022
Letters from Herzl: Settler Colonialism at work in Palestine
81 hours 47 mins; August 09, 2022
Nasar Meer, "The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice" (Policy Press, 2022)
48 mins; August 08, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob: The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
71 hours 53 mins; August 08, 2022
The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers
87 hours 53 mins; August 03, 2022
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
53 mins; August 03, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
57 mins; August 02, 2022
Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
66 hours 52 mins; July 29, 2022
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
32 mins; July 29, 2022
The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
68 hours 51 mins; July 29, 2022
Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
61 hours 52 mins; July 28, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
61 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2022
James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
62 hours 58 mins; July 27, 2022
Koch Block My Campus: How Big Money Corrupts Academia
60 hours 57 mins; July 27, 2022
Monika Kostera, "After The Apocalypse: Finding Hope in Organizing" (John Hunt, 2020)
56 mins; July 27, 2022
Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)
51 mins; July 27, 2022
The Grift of Meritocracy: All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
55 mins; July 26, 2022
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
41 mins; July 25, 2022
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
75 hours 52 mins; July 22, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania
86 hours 45 mins; July 19, 2022
Pigeon Shit Bookstore: On Street Bookselling, Populism, and Public Intellectuals
77 hours 22 mins; July 18, 2022
Daniel Wirls, "The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
52 mins; July 14, 2022
Jed Esty, "The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits" (Stanford Briefs, 2022)
67 hours 35 mins; July 13, 2022
Penny Jane Burke et al., "Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; July 11, 2022
Ben Davis, "Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
89 hours 29 mins; July 06, 2022
Max Ajl, "A People's Green New Deal" (Pluto Press, 2021)
51 mins; July 05, 2022
The Future of Philanthropy: A Conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings
46 mins; June 28, 2022
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
57 mins; June 27, 2022
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
53 mins; June 24, 2022
Bianca C. Williams et al., "Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
77 hours 19 mins; June 23, 2022
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; June 23, 2022
Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)
66 hours 24 mins; June 22, 2022
Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
58 mins; June 21, 2022
Matthew T. Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet" (Verso, 2022)
45 mins; June 17, 2022
Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
47 mins; June 13, 2022
Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; June 09, 2022
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
69 hours 14 mins; June 08, 2022
Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
62 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Tajja Isen, "Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service" (Atria/One Signal, 2022)
35 mins; June 07, 2022
Ryan Watson, "Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age" (Indiana UP, 2021)
56 mins; June 06, 2022
Paul Le Blanc, "Revolutionary Collective: Comrades, Critics, and Dynamics in the Struggle for Socialism" (Haymarket, 2022)
75 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2022
Are We Entering a "Neo-Medieval" Era?: A Conversation with Greg Lewicki
65 hours 4 mins; June 02, 2022
Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
90 hours 45 mins; June 02, 2022
David Swift, "The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality" (Constable & Robinson, 2022)
69 hours 19 mins; May 31, 2022
Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)
64 hours 36 mins; May 31, 2022
Yanis Varoufakis, "Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present" (Melville House, 2020)
32 mins; May 30, 2022
Richard Seymour, "The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism" (Indigo Press, 2022)
45 mins; May 27, 2022
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
69 hours 7 mins; May 24, 2022
Kennan Ferguson, ed., "The Big No" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
49 mins; May 19, 2022
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
61 hours 25 mins; May 19, 2022
Hannah White, "Held in Contempt: What's Wrong with the House of Commons?" (Manchester UP, 2022)
36 mins; May 18, 2022
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)
80 hours 14 mins; May 18, 2022
Alicia Puglionesi, "In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire" (Scribner, 2022)
64 hours 4 mins; May 18, 2022
Sally Hayden, "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route" (Melville House, 2022)
66 hours 50 mins; May 17, 2022
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
67 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
53 mins; May 10, 2022
Kenny Xu, "An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy" (Diversion Book, 2021)
51 mins; May 10, 2022
MĂłnica GuzmĂĄn, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)
63 hours 45 mins; May 09, 2022
Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
64 hours 27 mins; May 09, 2022
OlĂșfáșč́mi O. TĂĄĂ­wĂČ, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" (Haymarket, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; May 05, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
61 hours 10 mins; May 04, 2022
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
45 mins; May 03, 2022
Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
57 mins; May 03, 2022
Juan Dal Maso, "Hegemony and Class Struggle: Trotsky, Gramsci and Marxism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
57 mins; April 29, 2022
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
41 mins; April 26, 2022
Barry Eichengreen et al., "In Defense of Public Debt" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; April 26, 2022
Joseph Darda, "The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism" (Stanford UP, 2022)
68 hours 4 mins; April 21, 2022
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
42 mins; April 21, 2022
Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)
67 hours 14 mins; April 20, 2022
The Future of the Far Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Timothy Snyder
43 mins; April 19, 2022
John S. Huntington, "Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
69 hours 3 mins; April 19, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
53 mins; April 13, 2022
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