by efc8d-admin | Apr 25, 2026 | Climate Crisis, Ecology, Empire and Colonialism, Ethics, Palestine, Poetry, Politics and Culture, The Arts
Today I have the immense pleasure of speaking with author Anna Badkhen about her new collection of essays, To See Beyond. Badkhen talks about how her experiences as a veteran war correspondent exposed her to War’s multiple forms of violence, destruction, and carnage,...
by efc8d-admin | Apr 22, 2026 | Capitalism, Democracy, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Culture, Technologies, The Arts
Today I have the immense pleasure of talking with Carissa Véliz, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, about her new book, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future—from Ancient Oracles to AI. Linking this work to her previous book,...
by efc8d-admin | Apr 19, 2026 | Iran, Media, Politics and Culture, War
Today I am deeply honored to welcome back Iranian journalists Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy. Before, they talked about their book, For the Sun After Long Nights: the Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising, today they tell us of conditions in Iran, which since January...
by efc8d-admin | Apr 15, 2026 | Journalism, Media, Palestine, Politics and Culture
Today I am excited to talk with journalist and media critic Adam Johnson about his new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza. Many of us gained an intuitive sense of just how bad the media coverage of the genocide in Gaza and...
by efc8d-admin | Apr 3, 2026 | Abolition, Decarceration, Law and Violence, Organizing
Today I am honored to speak with veteran journalist Victoria Law. She is the author of such books as Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (co-authored with Maya Schenwar),...