Vintage Barbara Ehrenreich Interviews
Fundraiser special: excerpts from 2004, 2005, and 2009 Behind the News interviews with Barbara Ehrenreich, one of the great journalists of our time, who died on September 1.
Behind the News
12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Time: Thursdays
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Chile revisited and the drawbacks of grievance politics
Mario Pino revisits Chilean voters’ rejection of a proposed new constitution, and Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents and author of this article, explores the problems with organizing your politics around grievance.
Chilean political activist Antonia Atria explains why that country’s voters rejected a proposed new constitution, and Juliana Fredman, a public interest lawyer in the Bay Area, analyzes Biden’s student debt relief proposals. photo: Ehud Neuhaus on Unsplash
Behind the News – September 1, 2022
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Mark Fisher and hauntology; a critique of climate austerity
Matt Colquhoun talks about Mark Fisher on the reissue of his essay collection Ghosts of My Life, and Matt Huber, author of this review, criticizes the climate austerity camp.
The politics of Stanford and its infamous alum, Peter Thiel, and the political/economic crisis in Sri Lanka
David Palumbo-Liu on the politics of Stanford University and its infamous alum, Peter Thiel. And the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, analyzed by the writer Indrajit Samarajiva.
Why we need nuclear power, and the ruling class dynamics of the war in Ukraine
Science journalist Leigh Phillips explains why nuclear power has to be part of any serious decarbonization program. And Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, explores Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a bid to consolidate power, and how the ruling classes of … Continued
British politics: Johnson’s caste and Labour’s mush
Two views of British politics: Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. And James Meadway, director of the Progressive Economy Forum, on the dismal politics of the drab leader of the Labour Party, Kier Starmer.
Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the racial wealth gap, 1860–2020, and David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics. Image by Claudio Bianchi from Pixabay
Fundraising special: the latest fronts in the right’s war on public education, and the political economy of Ukraine.
Education journalist Jennifer Berkshire on Peter Hegseth, Christopher Rufo, and the right’s latest fronts in their war on public education. And Peter Korotaev looks at the political economy of Ukraine, before, during, and after the war.