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Dec 14, 2021 • 1h 21min
Social control in early 20th century Chicago / Martin Billheimer
Writer Martin Billheimer on his book "Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age" from Feral House.
https://feralhouse.com/mother-chicago/
Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 24min
On school surveillance / Chelsea Barabas
Chelsea Barabas on her article "Hall Monitors" for Real Life, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen rings down the curtain on 2021.
https://reallifemag.com/hall-monitors/
Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 21min
When conservation swallows Black farmland / Tony Briscoe
Journalist Tony Briscoe on his ProPublica article "Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them."
https://www.propublica.org/article/conservationists-see-rare-nature-sanctuaries-black-farmers-see-a-legacy-bought-out-from-under-them
Dec 7, 2021 • 1h 18min
Toxic air and America's sacrifice zones / Ava Kofman
Journalist Ava Kofman on the ProPublica report "Poison in the Air," co-written with Lylla Younes, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, with additional reporting by Maya Miller and photography by Kathleen Flynn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air
Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 30min
Coups and counterrevolutions in Sudan / Magdi el-Gizouli
Magdi el-Gizouli on his article "Counterrevolution in Sudan" for Spectre Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen has a theory about drunk cave people.
https://spectrejournal.com/counterrevolution-in-sudan/
Dec 1, 2021 • 1h 21min
Growing food and getting free / C.E.
Farmer c.e. on her article "Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State" for The New Inquiry.
https://thenewinquiry.com/farming-in-the-shadow-of-the-shadow-state/
Nov 30, 2021 • 1h 27min
The futilitarian condition / Neil Vallelly
Neil Vallelly on his book "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" from MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism
Nov 23, 2021 • 1h 35min
The path of the East African crude oil pipeline / Alex Tumuhimbise + Emily Holden
Journalists Alex Tumuhimbise and Emily Holden on the article "No power to stop it’: optimism turns to frustration over east Africa pipeline" for The Guardian, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks, "aside from the way things are, what do we really have to complain about?"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/no-power-to-stop-it-optimism-turns-to-frustration-over-east-africa-pipeline
Nov 23, 2021 • 1h 16min
Black and native lives in US history / Kyle T. Mays
Historian Kyle T. Mays on his book "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" from Beacon Press.
http://www.beacon.org/An-Afro-Indigenous-History-of-the-United-States-P1731.aspx
Nov 16, 2021 • 1h 21min
Wisconsin's BLM under surveillance | Isiah Holmes
Journalist Isiah Holmes on his article "How Kenosha PD and the FBI received Wisconsin’s BLM protester list" for the Wisconsin Examiner.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/11/10/how-kenosha-pd-and-the-fbi-received-wisconsins-blm-protester-list/
