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Anger Management: When Can Rage Be Good?
20 mins; February 01, 2023
Out of TIme: Sacred Time and 'Time is Money'
28 mins; January 31, 2023
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice, Restlessness, and Higher Education
57 mins; January 30, 2023
Above the Veil: Beyond Segregationism and Assimilationism
37 mins; January 29, 2023
Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
65 hours 36 mins; January 28, 2023
Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill. "Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
47 mins; January 27, 2023
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
30 mins; January 27, 2023
Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
83 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2023
Engineering and Social Justice
72 hours 19 mins; January 25, 2023
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
84 hours 3 mins; January 23, 2023
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)
24 mins; January 22, 2023
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 1)
27 mins; January 21, 2023
The Myth of Modernity: Is There a Bigger Picture?
34 mins; January 20, 2023
Daniel F. Runde, "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power" (Bombardier, 2023)
47 mins; January 20, 2023
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
42 mins; January 18, 2023
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
71 hours 12 mins; January 18, 2023
Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
90 hours 44 mins; January 17, 2023
Eric A. Stanley, "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable" (Duke UP, 2021)
52 mins; January 16, 2023
The Politics of Digital Technology
75 hours 6 mins; January 14, 2023
Enlightened Cynicism: Should We Be More Cynical Than We Are?
20 mins; January 11, 2023
Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?
25 mins; January 10, 2023
White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?
13 mins; January 06, 2023
(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?
16 mins; January 05, 2023
Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)
39 mins; January 04, 2023
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
77 hours 57 mins; January 03, 2023
Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
14 mins; January 03, 2023
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
42 mins; January 03, 2023
Gareth Dale, et al., "Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born?" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
67 hours 38 mins; January 02, 2023
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
72 hours 2 mins; December 30, 2022
You Do Have A Right To Remain Fat: A Conversation with Virgie Tovar
68 hours 23 mins; December 29, 2022
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
96 hours 2 mins; December 29, 2022
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
66 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
69 hours 17 mins; December 26, 2022
The Partially Examined Life: A Conversation with Wes Alwan
45 mins; December 26, 2022
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)
55 mins; December 25, 2022
Michael Sturza, "The London Revolution 1640-1643: Class Struggles in 17th Century England" (The Mad Duck Coalition, 2022)
33 mins; December 23, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
60 hours 15 mins; December 22, 2022
Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
75 hours 23 mins; December 22, 2022
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
48 mins; December 21, 2022
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
56 mins; December 13, 2022
What Went Wrong in the 1970s in the USA?: A Discussion with Bill McKibben
44 mins; December 12, 2022
Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 44 mins; December 10, 2022
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 08, 2022
Margret Grebowicz, "Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 07, 2022
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
70 hours 23 mins; December 05, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
51 mins; December 04, 2022
Melanie Joy, "The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement" (Lantern, 2020)
68 hours 2 mins; December 02, 2022
Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
49 mins; November 30, 2022
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; November 29, 2022
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
52 mins; November 25, 2022
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 23, 2022
Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
60 hours 23 mins; November 18, 2022
Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science
64 hours 2 mins; November 16, 2022
Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
59 mins; November 14, 2022
Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 10, 2022
Aufhebunga Bunga and Global Politics
63 hours 15 mins; November 04, 2022
Vivek Chibber, "Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It" (Verso, 2022)
70 hours 42 mins; November 03, 2022
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
38 mins; November 03, 2022
Jeremi Suri, "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
57 mins; November 02, 2022
Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
63 hours 45 mins; November 02, 2022
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
83 hours 8 mins; November 01, 2022
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
47 mins; October 31, 2022
Andreas Malm, "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (Verso, 2021)
34 mins; October 27, 2022
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 23 mins; October 27, 2022
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 23 mins; October 27, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)
52 mins; October 20, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 3: Technocracy in the Private Sector
65 hours 27 mins; October 19, 2022
Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
51 mins; October 19, 2022
Arcia Tecun et al., "Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
59 mins; October 18, 2022
Julie Sze, "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" (U California Press, 2020)
64 hours 50 mins; October 14, 2022
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
65 hours 15 mins; October 13, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; October 13, 2022
Gabriel Debenedetti, "The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama" (Henry Holt, 2022)
37 mins; October 12, 2022
Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 8 mins; October 11, 2022
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
40 mins; October 11, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
68 hours 28 mins; October 10, 2022
Peter Montoya, "The Second Civil War: A Citizen's Guide to Healing Our Fractured Nation" (RH Press, 2021)
23 mins; October 10, 2022
Emerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
24 mins; October 07, 2022
Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)
57 mins; October 05, 2022
The Future of the Legitimate Opposition: A Discussion with Alexander S. Kirshner
43 mins; October 04, 2022
Michele Moody-Adams, "Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope" (Columbia UP, 2022)
63 hours 32 mins; October 03, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intellectuals and Expertise
67 hours 31 mins; October 02, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
84 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
45 mins; September 29, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
62 hours 58 mins; September 29, 2022
Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; September 29, 2022
David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn, "Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad" (Fernwood, 2021)
97 hours 57 mins; September 28, 2022
Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)
76 hours 26 mins; September 27, 2022
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
57 mins; September 27, 2022
Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
73 hours 4 mins; September 23, 2022
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
65 hours 29 mins; September 22, 2022
Paula Serafini, "Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, And (Post)Extractivism" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
44 mins; September 22, 2022
Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)
59 mins; September 20, 2022
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
32 mins; September 19, 2022
Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
41 mins; September 19, 2022
Mohamed Abdou, "Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances" (Pluto Press, 2022)
74 hours 16 mins; September 16, 2022
Neferti X. M. Tadiar, "Remaindered Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 37 mins; September 15, 2022
Amber M. Trotter, "Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory" (Lexington Books, 2020)
60 hours 59 mins; September 14, 2022
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
84 hours 31 mins; September 12, 2022
Pew Research Center: Analyzing the Evangelical Right
96 hours 15 mins; September 09, 2022
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