Today we speak with acclaimed author and activist, and San Francisco legend, Chris Carlsson about his new novel, When Shells Crumble. It begins in December 2024, when the US Supreme Court nullifies the popular vote in the Presidential election and awards the...
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Race, Violence, and For-Profit Prison: A Conversation with Robin Bernstein
Today we speak with Harvard professor Robin Bernstein about her new book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit. While researching a book to develop her earlier interests in race and childhood, Bernstein came across the case...
Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Today we talk with the prolific and wide-ranging scholar Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, just out from the University of Chicago Press. The book shows the emergence and conjuncture of...
How Uber et al. is Redefining Work in the Worst Way Possible: Veena Dubal Explains Algorithmic Violence
How have companies like Uber and Lyft, Instacart and DoorDash and others, changed the nature of work from bad to horrific? Veena Dubal joins me to explain how such companies have exported globally a technique of algorithmic wage discrimination that pays workers based...
We Need a Culture of Care: A Conversation with author, journalist, essayist and critic Liza Featherstone
Liza is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. In this podcast, Featherstone explains the structural challenges Democrats must overcome in order to meet the needs of ordinary people who are hurting—we discuss...
Academic Strikers Form Solidarity Across the Atlantic
Interviews with organizers, strikers, and faculty participating in the University of California strike, and their counterparts at the University and College Union strike in the UK give us critical background information on both, talk with us from the front lines, and...
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