Episodes
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Fighting Academic Cowardice and Activating Fearlessness: Speaking with Roderick Ferguson
Today I am delighted to talk with Roderick Ferguson about his provocative and much-needed intervention, “An Interruption in Our Cowardice.” Initially driven by his deep disappointment in some Black intellectuals’ compliance and even assistance with reactionary...
From Indefensible Spaces, Police, and the Struggle for Housing, to the Case of Abolitionist Housing: A Conversation with Rahim Kurwa
Today I talk with Rahim Kurwa about a powerful study of housing rights and police repression in...
The Final Phases of Genocide: What Global Civil Society Must Do. A Conversation with International Jurists Lara Elborno, Penny Green & Richard Falk
On May 15, international legal experts Lara Elborno, Richard Falk, and Penny Green joined me to...
What’s Left?—Addressing the Disaster of Capitalism with Malcolm Harris
Today we welcome Malcolm Harris back to the show. Previously he talked with us about his mammoth...
Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons–A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu
Ever since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has...
War-Making as Worldmaking: A Discussion with Samar Al-Bulushi on Kenya and the Workings of Blackness, Place, and International Politics
Today we talk with Samar Al-Bulushi about her rich and complex work on Kenya, which, across...
ICE’s “Photo-Op” Military Attack on MacArthur Park and Community Pushback: Talking with Journalist Mel Buer
Last week, over 100 agents from nine federal agencies stormed a bucolic public park in Los...