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Recent Episodes

Gaza with Aya Alghazzawi & Issam Adwan

Posted May 18, 2021 • 01:02:22

Two voices from Gaza. The first of two episodes on Palestine this week with teacher and BDS activist Aya Alghazzawi and journalist Issam Adwan, project...

Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley

Posted May 15, 2021 • 02:15:20

Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Please support this podcast...

“Cancel Culture” w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield

Posted May 9, 2021 • 02:06:19

What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse...

Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

Posted April 30, 2021 • 02:06:02

Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary...

Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz

Posted April 24, 2021 • 02:12:36

US empire in the Philippines, Filipino migration, labor organizing in the fields, and the nativist campaign for Asian exclusion. Dan interviews Rick...