Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home, talks about this history of the white power movement from the Vietnam War through the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. Today’s Proud Boys have a long history, as she shows.
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.
Economist Max Sawicky explains why the postal service is in such trouble, and what could be done to save it. And securities analyst Kelly Grotke looks at the financial crisis in higher education—dining hall workers being laid off while the portfolio managers running the endowment make billions. Thanks to Ethan Hoover for sharing their work on … Continued
Frederik de Boer talks about his new book, The Cult of Smart, which is about reversing the dominance of academic stardom in determining “success.” And Matthew Snyder talks about creating a community land trust in the Inland Empire.
The Jakarta method, and schooling in a pandemic
Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method, on the US-sponsored strategy of mass murder during the Cold War • Kyle Beckham, lecturer in education at the University of San Francisco, on schooling during the pandemic Rebroadcast of a show that first ran in May
Historian and law professor weighs the evidence for Trump’s “fascism” and finds it wanting—and not that relevant politically. And economist and sociologist Juliet Schor, author of After the Gig (University of California Press), talks about the sharing economy, and how it could be done better. Photo: Thanks to Dan Gold for sharing their work on … Continued
Mike German, former FBI agent and now Brennan Institute fellow, explores the far right, and the relationship of the cops to it. And Hadas Thier provides an intro to Marx’s economics.
• Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade, on the role of shipping in the development of capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula • Kayla Popuchet on what’s been going on in Belarus
Hosted by Doug Henwood. A re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism. Guest: Christian Parenti is associate professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY), a contributing editor to The Nation, and the author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, Tropic of Chaos, and his latest Radical … Continued
Part 1: The number of years of life lost to cop violence and of structural racism in the U.S. Guest: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is a sociologist and demographer at the University of Minnesota. Part 2: The Collapse of American Farming Guest: Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones where he writes the … Continued
Behind the News – August 6, 2020
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.