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.
David Adler of the Progressive International on an impending debt crisis, with an emphasis on the role of the IMF (Guardian article here). And Sudip Bhattacharya on the Asian American population: its diversity, its unity, its politics.
Donna Murch, author of Assata Taught Me, on black radical politics from the Panthers through the Movement for Black Lives. And Kyle Shybunko, author of this piece, on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, a hero to many on the American right. photo: Pixabay
• Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around ending cash bail in New York State) • Historian James Chappel, author of this article, on postliberalism, notably the reactionary Catholic law prof Adrian Vermeule (a contributing editor of the … Continued
Vijay Prashad, journalist and historian, on the reconfigurations of global power prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and environmental economist and activist Charlie Komanoff, author of this Nation article, on why it’s a bad idea to shut nuclear power plants only to have them replaced by burning more fossil fuels.
Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute, author of this policy brief on the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia’s brutal war on that country. And Natalia Petrzela, author of this column, on how we went from Muscle Beach to gender neutral cosmetics products.
Richard Seymour, author of this article, on the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine • Emily Drabinski on the war against libraries • Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the fiction of the Cold War. photo: Alfons Morales via Unsplash
Historian Lily Geismer, author of Left Behind, on the market-friendly New Democrats, from the 1970s into the 1990s and beyond. And Barry Eichengreen discusses the role of the dollar and threats to its pre-eminence. photo: Joshua Sukoff via Unsplash
Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket. photo: Myriam Zilles via Unsplash
Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute on what provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what motivates Putin, and where it might all go. Plus, fundraising.
Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money, on the damage done by over a decade of hyper-easy monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, and Lea Ypi, a political philsopher and author of Free, on growing up in the last days of Communist Albania and the early days of its neoliberal successor.
