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Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 20min
Prison reform, carceral expansion / Kay Whitlock + Nancy A. Heitzeg
Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg on their book "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343474/carceral-con

Oct 6, 2021 • 1h 27min
Inside the Pandora Papers / Michael Hudson
Journalist Michael Hudson on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists's massive Pandora Papers investigation, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen identifies a heinous example of "Missing White Woman Syndrome Derangement Syndrome."
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 15min
The state and the autonomous zone / Stellan Vinthagen
Sociologist Stellan Vinthagen on his article "The ZAD: between utopian radicalism and negotiated pragmatism," co-written with Fareen Parvez for ROAR Magazine.
https://roarmag.org/essays/zad-radicalism-pragmatism/

Oct 4, 2021 • 1h 24min
Pandemic food system politics in North Africa / Sylvia Kay + Hamza Hamouchene
Sylvia Kay and Hamza Hamouchene on the report "Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis: The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa" for Transnational Institute.
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/towards-a-just-recovery-from-the-covid-19-crisis

Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 23min
The financialized university disaster / Kelly Grotke
Kelly Grotke on her article "The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen must look back on a piece of theater he never saw.
https://prospect.org/education/failure-of-financialized-higher-ed/

Sep 21, 2021 • 1h 15min
Brutality, capitalism, revenge / Max Haiven
Writer Max Haiven on his book "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts" from Pluto Press.
http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/

Sep 20, 2021 • 1h 20min
Pearls for empire / Molly A. Warsh
Historian Molly A. Warsh on her book "American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700" from UNC Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469666259/american-baroque/

Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 17min
Yukon salmon collapse / Zachariah Hughes
Journalist Zachariah Hughes on his three-part series "The Last Wild Kings: A World Without Salmon?" for Anchorage Daily News and the Pulitzer Center.
https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/last-wild-kings-world-without-salmon

Sep 14, 2021 • 1h 18min
Faith and work on the slaughterhouse floor / Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Kristy Nabhan-Warren on her book "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" from UNC Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663494/meatpacking-america/

Sep 13, 2021 • 1h 21min
Neoliberal jihad / Suzanne Schneider
Historian Suzanne Schneider on her book "The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism" from Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2565-suzanne-schneider