A memorial to Leo Panitch
A tribute to Leo Panitch, who died on December 19: excerpts from 2012 and 2018 interviews.
Behind the News
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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Why Republican judges voted against Trump, and a look at a brutal “release” house for prisoners
The conservative legal commentator Walter Olson explains why all those Republican judges, including those on the Supreme Court, voted against Trump’s ridiculous lawsuits to overturn the election. And journalist Lindsay Beyerstein looks at Passages, a brutal “release” house for women prisoners in Montana.
Guests: Rodrigo Nunes is a lecturer in modern and contemporary philosophy at the Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio). He is the author of Organisation of the Organisationless. Rodrigo Nunes latest article Are We in Denial About Denial? can be found here. Photo by Bruna Araujo, São Paulo, Brasil on Usplash
Two historians: Thomas Sugrue, editor of a symposium on the Public Books website, on the coronacrisis and its impact on cities, and Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, on the role of a crude masculinity in evangelical Christianity. photo: Pedro Lastra
Behind the News – November 26, 2020
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, on the state of the education reform movement as Trump and DeVos leave: it’s now mostly about right-wing moves in the states to dismantle public education and to subsidize profit-making and religious schools. And Kate Sykes of DSA and an activist with People First Portland, on … Continued
Biden’s foreign policy, and then female desire
Andrew Bacevich on what Biden’s foreign policy might look like, and Alyson Spurgas on female desire
The historian Vijay Prashad and the political scientist Jodi Dean offer analyses of the longer-term meaning of the election—what Trump means, where he came from, where he might go, and how we might do better than these dismal choices.
Sex offender registries and the Chilean plebscite
NYC public defender Kat Pecore on the profound injustice of sex offender registries and Antonia Atria, a socialist and student activist in Chile, on that country’s vote to rewrite its Pinochet-era constitution.
Tech workers and Obama’s grim legacy
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors of Voices from the Valley, on what workers in the tech industry say about their jobs, and Paul Street, author of Hollow Resistance, on the grim post-presidency of Barack Obama.