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The Contagion of Covid Policy: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Freedom of Speech
55 mins; May 03, 2024
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 01, 2024
Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis
75 hours 26 mins; May 01, 2024
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
46 mins; April 30, 2024
Karyne Messina, "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy" (Pi Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 28, 2024
Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)
52 mins; April 28, 2024
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; April 27, 2024
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
65 hours 5 mins; April 23, 2024
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
30 mins; April 11, 2024
Elyse Ambrose, "A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive" (T&T Clark, 2024)
35 mins; April 11, 2024
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice" (FSG, 2021)
63 hours 1 min; April 10, 2024
Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 2 mins; April 03, 2024
Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
67 hours 45 mins; April 03, 2024
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
29 mins; March 30, 2024
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
27 mins; March 28, 2024
Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)
63 hours 30 mins; March 27, 2024
Why, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
48 mins; March 26, 2024
Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)
56 mins; March 24, 2024
Dinesh Wadiwel, "Animals and Capital" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
93 hours 37 mins; March 19, 2024
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; March 17, 2024
Foster Care, Family, and Social Class: A Conversation with Rob Henderson
63 hours 25 mins; March 14, 2024
Daniel Tutt, "How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche" (Repeater, 2024)
52 mins; March 12, 2024
Freedom in the Academy: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
58 mins; March 05, 2024
David P. Gushee, "Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)
51 mins; March 02, 2024
Verity Harding, "AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; March 01, 2024
Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
61 hours 18 mins; February 28, 2024
Leadership in Business, Leadership Abroad: A Conversation with Dave McCormick *96
45 mins; February 28, 2024
Alissa Quart and David Wallis, "Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country" (Haymarket, 2023)
54 mins; February 28, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
52 mins; February 26, 2024
Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
72 hours 36 mins; February 19, 2024
Steven Harvey, "The Beloved Republic" (Wandering Aengus Press, 2023)
28 mins; February 15, 2024
Richard L. Hasen, "A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
28 mins; February 15, 2024
Josh Fernandez, "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist" (PM Press, 2024)
47 mins; February 13, 2024
Lehasa Moloi, "Developing Africa?: New Horizons with Afrocentricity" (Anthem Press, 2024)
41 mins; February 12, 2024
Brian H. Williams, "The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
37 mins; February 10, 2024
Nicholas B. Dirks, "City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
70 hours 12 mins; February 09, 2024
Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)
55 mins; February 08, 2024
Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
65 hours 44 mins; February 04, 2024
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
31 mins; February 03, 2024
Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)
55 mins; January 31, 2024
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
49 mins; January 30, 2024
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
64 hours 6 mins; January 28, 2024
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
28 mins; January 28, 2024
Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
66 hours 56 mins; January 27, 2024
Lee McIntyre, "On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy" (MIT Press, 2023)
71 hours 26 mins; January 27, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
65 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2024
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
58 mins; January 22, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 40 mins; January 17, 2024
Free to Investigate: Dr. Scott Atlas on the Freedom in the Sciences
67 hours 33 mins; January 16, 2024
Dana R. Fisher, "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action" (Columbia UP, 2024)
32 mins; January 15, 2024
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
80 hours 9 mins; January 14, 2024
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
30 mins; January 12, 2024
Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
74 hours 52 mins; January 08, 2024
The Men We Need (with Brant Hansen)
69 hours 35 mins; January 08, 2024
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
51 mins; January 07, 2024
Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition
30 mins; January 07, 2024
Leigh Claire La Berge, "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" (Duke UP, 2023)
37 mins; January 05, 2024
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
62 hours 3 mins; January 02, 2024
Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
30 mins; January 02, 2024
Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)
75 hours 40 mins; December 31, 2023
D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)
64 hours 59 mins; December 28, 2023
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
61 hours 37 mins; December 27, 2023
James M. Lawson Jr. et al., "Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom" (U California Press, 2022)
21 mins; December 24, 2023
The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas
37 mins; December 23, 2023
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
58 mins; December 19, 2023
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 17, 2023
The Adversity of Diversity: A Conversation with Carol Swain
41 mins; December 12, 2023
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
57 mins; December 09, 2023
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
45 mins; December 06, 2023
Speak Out: 'Unwoke' with Senator Ted Cruz
20 mins; December 05, 2023
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
38 mins; December 04, 2023
Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, "Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World" (The New Press, 2023)
33 mins; December 01, 2023
Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
58 mins; November 29, 2023
Astra Taylor, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart" (House of Anansi Press, 2023)
61 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2023
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
39 mins; November 27, 2023
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Indiana UP, 2023)
29 mins; November 25, 2023
Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
37 mins; November 22, 2023
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, "Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy" (Cascade Books, 2023)
66 hours 27 mins; November 20, 2023
Chris Cutrone, "The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions: 2006-2022" (Sublation Media, 2023)
66 hours 7 mins; November 19, 2023
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference
61 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023
Plantationocene
18 mins; November 17, 2023
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
60 hours 26 mins; November 16, 2023
Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
82 hours 23 mins; November 15, 2023
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; November 13, 2023
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 13, 2023
Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
54 mins; November 12, 2023
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
60 hours 42 mins; November 11, 2023
Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
81 hours 55 mins; November 09, 2023
Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)
45 mins; November 08, 2023
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
59 mins; November 07, 2023
Alexandra Hudson, "The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
33 mins; November 02, 2023
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
39 mins; November 01, 2023
Frederick V. Engram, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
38 mins; October 30, 2023
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
65 hours 46 mins; October 28, 2023
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
55 mins; October 27, 2023
Nick Riemer, "Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
63 hours 28 mins; October 27, 2023
Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)
62 hours 14 mins; October 26, 2023
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 19 mins; October 24, 2023
Decolonizing Praxis
23 mins; October 23, 2023
The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times
69 hours 9 mins; October 21, 2023
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