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.
Peter Goodman, author of Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, discusses the plutocrats and their pretensions. And Vijay Prashad, director of The Tricontinental, outlines a plan to save the world, essentially from Davos Man.
Erin Thompson, author of Smashing Statues, talks about the politics of public art. And John Huntington, author of Far-Right Vanguard, recounts the history of the far-Right and its often close relations with the “respectable” Right. photo: Pixabay
What’s behind the demonization of Russia, China, and a preposterously inflated North Korea? Is Russia about to invade Ukraine, or China about to invade Taiwan, or North Korea about to lob nuclear missiles at LA? Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation fills us in on the Russia angle, and veteran journalist … Continued
Economist William “Sandy” Darity, co-author of From Here to Equality, makes the case for reparations for black Americans. photo: Pixabay
Ben Burgis, author of a new book on Christopher Hitchens, on how he still matters and why. And Patrick Blanchfield, author of this article, on how Freud’s concept of the death drive explains so much.
Political scientist Clyde Barrow explains how Texas, a complex, diverse, urbanized state, is run by a bunch of white guys who think they’re cowboys (rebroadcast of a September interview). And Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica explains why very rich people pay almost nothing in taxes.
On this fund-drive special, Sam Adler-Bell, author of this article from the New Republic, joins Behind the News to discuss the ‘New Right,’ a youthful crop of ill-liberal counter-revolutionaries who wouldn’t mind junking democracy and replacing it with a theocracy. photo: Pixabay
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel discuss their book Inflamed, on the social and ecological causes of disease. Plus a generous helping of fundraising.
Two election observers from the Progressive International, Matt Kierkegaard and David Adler, report on Honduras and Chile, which have been choosing new presidents. And Sarah Lustbader, a public defender in NYC, explores why trials (like Kyle Rittenhouse’s) can’t bear the political weight we expect of them. Photo credit: Nick Youngson on Wikimedia
Sociologist Alex Vitale, just out with a second edition of The End of Policing, on how we can replace cops with more humane substitutes. And economist Barry Eichengreen, co-author of In Defense on Public Debt, talks about the history and purpose of government borrowing.
