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Apr 18, 2022 • 49min
STAFF PICKS: Jodi Dean / The left and party politics.
Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book "Crowds and Party" from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]
Apr 14, 2022 • 1h 20min
STAFF PICKS: Trevor Griffey / Financialization and the future of college teaching
Sebastian replays Chuck's interview with historian Trevor Griffey on his article "A New Deal for College Teachers and Teaching" written with Mia McIver for the American Association of University Professors website, and in an ALL NEW Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen introduces The Other White Pride: Calcium. [Griffey interview first broadcast May 4, 2021]
https://www.aaup.org/article/new-deal-college-teachers-and-teaching
Apr 13, 2022 • 1h 13min
STAFF PICKS: Gary Brecher + Mark Ames / Syria's war + Rich creeps
Dan replays interviews with Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) and Mark Ames. [First broadcast Oct 20 2012 and April 30 2011]
Apr 12, 2022 • 59min
STAFF PICKS: Cassie Thornton / Peer-to-peer feminist care.
Lindsey replays artist Cassie Thornton explores the revolutionary potential of The Hologram - a peer-to-peer system of care between people as equals in an unequal society. [First broadcast August 4, 2020]
Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 8min
STAFF PICKS: Adofo Minka / Prison uprisings and self emancipation.
Chuck returns! Plus Producer Alex replays Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and across the United States [First broadcast April 29, 2021]
Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 32min
Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier
Writer and Activist Hadas Thier talks to Chuck about her Dollars & Sense Article "Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us." Jeff Dorchen sees a phantom. Or was it a famine? Everyone wrestles with how to pronounce "paczki."
http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2022/0122thier.html
Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 17min
On cannabis corporatization / Mary Jane Gibson
Writer Mary Jane Gibson on her article "Inside California's Cannabis Crisis" for Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/california-weed-cannabis-crisis-emerald-triangle-1302545/
Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 15min
Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo
Immigration lawyer Daniel Melo on his article "The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies" for Black Agenda Report.
https://blackagendareport.com/capitalist-imperative-driving-cruel-and-bipartisan-us-migration-policies
Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 24min
Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes
Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege.
https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/
Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 16min
On prison education / Daniel Fernandez
Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article "The Classroom and the Cell" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez
