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 | Aug 23, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Educational Liberation, Politics and Culture, Race, Recovering Radical Histories
Today it’s my honor to speak with Danica Savonick about her marvelous book entitled Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College. This is a riveting and deeply inspiring story of...
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...
