by efc8d-admin | Nov 20, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Educational Liberation, Fascism, Labor, Organizing, Recovering Radical Histories
Today I have the immense honor and privilege to speak with Ellen Schrecker, who has been referred to as “the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians.” Well known for her classic studies of McCarthyism, today Schrecker explains how much worse Trump’s regime is than...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 17, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Labor, Poetry, Politics and Culture, Race, The Arts
Today I am delighted to talk with Eunsong Kim about her stunning book, The Politics of Collecting: Race & the Aestheticization of Property. It is remarkable in its theoretical conceptualization, argument, and archival work. Kim argues that the beginnings of elite...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 14, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Empire and Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Poetry, Politics and Culture, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am deeply honored to spend time with poet, activist, and scholar Jamaica Osorio. Shortly after October 7, 2023, she began to write a series of astonishing poems about the war in Gaza and the genocide. Osorio graces us with readings of some of those poems, and...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 7, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Organizing, Politics and Culture
In February, a New York assemblyman little known outside New York City was polling at 1% in his bid for mayor of NYC. This Tuesday, he became mayor-elect, after running a remarkable and inspiring campaign that drew 100,000 volunteers to knock on two million doors....
by efc8d-admin | Nov 6, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Organizing, Politics and Culture
Today I have the pleasure of talking with Dean Spade about his new book, Love in a Fucked-up World: how to build relationships, hook up, and raise hell together. This book builds on all of Dean’s previous books, and shares their commitment to finding ways to build...
