Episodes
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“Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood on Zohran Mamdani’s Victory in NYC: What is Its Significance, and What’s Next?”
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....
Was Stanford Firing 23 Lecturers in Creative Writing Really Necessary? A Conversation with Lecturers and Students
Recently, twenty-three lecturers in the highly successful Creative Writing program at Stanford...
Documenting the Fight Against the Palestine Exception: A Conversation with Filmmakers Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth
The Palestine Exception opens as campus encampments increase across the US in protest against...
Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood: What to Make of the Democratic Convention?
Today we speak with journalists and political commentators Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood...
US Immigration and Abolitionist Sanctuary: A Conversation with A. Naomi Paik and Arianna Salgado
Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the...
How Are Settler Colonialism, Imperialism, and Elitism Baked into the US Constitution? Aziz Rana on The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them
Today we speak with legal scholar and historian Aziz Rana about his deep study into the ways the...
Priyamvada Gopal and Françoise Vergès on the Recent Elections in Britain and France
For our snap episode on the snap elections in the UK and France, we're joined by eminent...