by efc8d-admin | Aug 4, 2025 | Capitalism, Politics and Culture, Race
Today I talk with Rahim Kurwa about a powerful study of housing rights and police repression in Southern California. Tapping into a vast historical archive as well as oral histories with residents of Antelope Valley, California, Rahim traces the complex relationship...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Environment and Biosphere
Today we welcome Malcolm Harris back to the show. Previously he talked with us about his mammoth study, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. This time we are looking not at a history of Capitalism and the World, but our possible futures...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 23, 2025 | Abolition, Capitalism, Technologies
Ever since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has proven to be more urgent and insightful. Today I talk with author Wendy Liu about how developments like AI and LLM, further erosions of intellectual property, and...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 20, 2025 | Africa, Politics and Culture
Today we talk with Samar Al-Bulushi about her rich and complex work on Kenya, which, across multiple scales of time and place, discovers how the War on Terror both tapped into colonial ideologies of the past and present-day political calculations at the intersection...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 1, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Politics and Culture
In today’s episode we speak with Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood about Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the recent primary for in New York mayor’s race. We first learn more about this 33-year-old socialist, and remarkable campaign he and his team put together to...
