A Correction Podcast

From time to time we like to ask our friends about their jobs. This week we talk to Ethan, a professional poker player. Donate todayA note from Lev:I have been hosting podcast episodes since 2016 and have conducted more than 175 interviews with economists, scholars, and journalists on political economy topics. I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.  The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.  I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor. Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)Best, Lev

Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is the bestselling This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home, a work narrative nonfiction about a young homeless mother in New York. It was named a Notable book of 2020 by the New York Times. Lauren is the author of two previous books, the bestselling One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One and Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement.  Lauren's essays and features have appeared in dozens of publications including Time, The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, New York Magazine, and Elle.  She has been on staff at Salon and at NPR, where she worked on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and the Cultural Desk. In addition to her journalism, Lauren has lead the OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowships at Yale, Columbia, UVA, and Dartmouth, and has taught in the graduate journalism program at NYU, where she has also been Visiting Scholar. She was a regular commentator for the BBC and has been interviewed nationally and internationally on many networks including CNN, PBS, CBS, NBC, and throughout public radio. Support the podcast A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS

Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism. His work approaches capitalism as an expansive social order—not confined to the market alone but rather structurally composed of multiple, heterogeneous spheres. He focuses on the relationship between economic production and formal employment on the one hand, and the social reproduction and governance of the population on the other. Broadly, he is interested in transformations in the social division of labor and the making and management of social difference through this process. Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash Please consider making a donation. We would like to hire an editor this year.

Samuel Miller McDonald is an editor at The Trouble and Epilogue, a doctoral researcher at University of Oxford, and graduate of the Yale School of the Environment and College of the Atlantic. His writing has appeared in Current Affairs, The New Republic, and The Guardian, among other publications. He is working on a book called PROGRESS about the history and future of progress, for William Collins and St. Martin's Press. Photo by Patrick Federi on Unsplash Check out our new section: Ask An Economist (Key Terms in About 5 Minutes)Subscribe to our newsletter today

Gerhard Toews is the RNG Assistant Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. He is also research affiliate at Oxcarre, University of Oxford, where he defended his DPhil, and the LEO, Orléans University. Political prisoners eating lunch in the Intalag coal mine. Check out our new section: Ask An Economist (Key Terms in About 5 Minutes)Subscribe to our newsletter today

Jorge E. Cuéllar is Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Check out our new section: Ask An Economist (Key Terms in About 5 Minutes)Subscribe to our newsletter today

George Turner is the director of TaxWatch. He is an investigative journalist and one of the founders of Finance Uncovered, an investigative reporting and training organization. As a journalist he has led multiple investigations that have appeared on front pages across the world.George first became interested in tax policy when he wrote a paper for the think tank Centre Forum in 2013, which revealed how the UK’s private equity owned water companies structured their finances to minimize corporation tax payments. Before becoming an investigative journalist George was head of the Westminster office of the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Check out our new section: Ask An Economist (Key Terms in About 5 Minutes)Subscribe to our newsletter today

Levi Boxell is a PhD candidate in Economics at Stanford University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research focuses on focus on media, polarization, and conflict. His other work can be found on his personal webpage. Subscribe to our newsletter today

Firoze Manji, is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University. He is Kenyan with more than 40 years’ experience in international development, health and human rights, and is the publisher of Daraja Press. He is Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press. He has previously worked as Africa Programme Director for Amnesty International, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK), and Regional Representative for Health Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa for the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi. He has published widely on health, human rights, development and politics. He is co-editor, with Sokari Ekine, of African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions and co-editor with Bill Fletcher Jr, of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. He is a member of the editorial review board of Global Critical Caribbean Thought and member of the editorial board of Nokoko, journal of the Institute of African Studies. He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of London, and BDS from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Subscribe to our newsletter today

Loren Balhorn works as a Lead Editor at Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation. He also edits the German and US editions of Jacobin Magazine and serves as a board member of the Historical Materialism Book Series. Subscribe to our newsletter today A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS