William Morris’s designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman’s insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. (Encore presentation.) Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, … Continued


On today’s show: 0:08 – Ari Berman (@AriBerman), senior reporter for Mother Jones and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America joins us to discuss the Freedom to Vote Act which was blocked by Senate Republicans. 0:34 – Sam Brodey (@sambrodey), congressional reporter for the Daily Beast joins … Continued


A Box of Toys

A Box of Toys #79 More Needle-drop

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Some more needledrop!  This stack of vinyl is mostly new EDM, but there are also some really quirky post-punk/industrial reissues at play.  Music from the XPQ? Mysterious DJ contingent out of Berlin, Peder Mannerfelt, Bogdan Razynski, Celia Hollander, Squarepusher and more…