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Manufacturing Dissent since 1996
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Nov 8, 2021 • 1h 18min
Climate and conflict in Darfur / Jérôme Tubiana
Journalist Jérôme Tubiana on his article "Land of Thirst" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/land-of-thirst-tubiana

Nov 3, 2021 • 1h 38min
Border walls and the climate crisis / Nick Buxton
The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen judges a costume contest.
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/global-climate-wall

Nov 1, 2021 • 1h 19min
Inside the Amazon warehouse / Alessandro Delfanti
Alessandro Delfanti on his book "The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon" from Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342177/the-warehouse/

Oct 27, 2021 • 1h 30min
Inflation politics / Rob Larson
Economist Rob Larson on his Current Affairs article "How Serious is the Inflation Situation?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen decodes a MAGA secret.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/10/how-serious-is-the-inflation-situation

Oct 26, 2021 • 1h 15min
On poppers and queer utopia / Adam Zmith
Writer Adam Zmith on his book "Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures" from Repeater Books.
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/deep-sniff-a-history-of-poppers-and-queer-futures/

Oct 25, 2021 • 1h 20min
Free people of color in the Antebellum South / Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Historian Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. on his book "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" from University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664392/beyond-slaverys-shadow/

Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 29min
Black humanity, Black worldlessness / Panashe Chigumadzi
Writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen looks back at some predictions.
https://africasacountry.com/2021/10/the-cry-of-black-worldlessness

Oct 19, 2021 • 1h 15min
On fatigue / Emily K. Abel
Historian Emily K. Abel on her book "Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue" from University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663340/sick-and-tired/

Oct 13, 2021 • 1h 21min
Bodily autonomy and abortion justice / Judith Levine
Judith Levine on her article "Abortion is a Public Good" for Boston Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen agrees that the Big Coin should drop.
https://bostonreview.net/law-justice-gender-sexuality/judith-levine-abortion-public-good

Oct 12, 2021 • 1h 17min
On dynastic wealth in America / Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins on the IPS report "Silver spoon oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality."
https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-wealth-dynasties-2021/