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
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.
Prisoners, cash bail, and postliberalism
• 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
Global reconfigurations prompted by the invasion of Ukraine, and why we shouldn’t shut nuclear power plants
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.
The war in Yemen, and changing standards of beauty for cishet men.
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
Fundraising special: the Ukrainian cauldron: where it came from, where it might go.
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.
Fundraiser special: the perversions of free Fed money and growing up in communist Albania
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.
Toronto-based activist and organizer John Clarke on the politics and personnel behind the Ottawa convoy, Dave Zirin on racism in the NFL (and Brian Flores’s lawsuit over it), and Justine Medina on working at Amazon and trying to unionize it. photo: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0