by efc8d-admin | Dec 4, 2025 | Feminism, Human Rights, Iran, War
Today I am honored to speak with Nilo Tabrizy, co-author of a remarkable and powerful book, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising. This interview complements another episode I did with her collaborator, Fatemeh Jamalpour. Ms...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 20, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Africa, Congo, Human Rights, Politics and Culture
How have young people in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo invented new forms of radicalism in response to the impact of new flows of foreign investment and the inability of normal national and international politics to serve their needs and interests?...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 12, 2025 | Gender, Politics and Culture, Race
Today I have the honor and the pleasure of speaking with legal scholar Mary Anne Franks, about her book, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. As the title of the book indicates, this is a fearless and iconoclastic critique of the ways that the...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 5, 2025 | Abolition, Law and Violence, Migration and Borders, Race
Today I have the honor of speaking with longtime activist Silky Shah, Executive Director of the Detention Watch Network, about her new, and extremely important book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Shah provides a critical discussion about the...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 18, 2025 | Anti-Zionism, Human Rights, Palestine
Today I am extremely grateful to Ardi Imseis and Chris Gunness for joining me for an urgent discussion of Israel’s accelerated genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. These eminent international human rights scholars discuss Israel’s longstanding...