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Recent Episodes

Colonialism in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla

Posted November 15, 2019 • 01:34:10

Maria hit Puerto Rico as austerity dismantled its social and material infrastructure. But as Yarimar Bonilla explains, these years also taught Puerto...

Socializing Ownership with Mathew Lawrence

Posted November 8, 2019 • 01:59:53

Mathew Lawrence, founder and director of the left-wing UK think tank Common Wealth, explains why ownership must be socialized, what that might look...

Settler-Colonial Revolutionaries with Joshua Simon

Posted November 1, 2019 • 02:08:10

The divide between Latin American and the United States was not always so evident. Across the hemisphere, creoles—the descendants of European settlers,...

Worldmaking after Empire with Adom Getachew

Posted October 27, 2019 • 01:58:32

Adom Getachew explains how anticolonial leaders from across the black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also end empire by constructing...

Hindu Nationalism with Achin Vanaik

Posted October 18, 2019 • 02:07:40

Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in India. There, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, continues in power under Prime Minister Narendra...