2022 Guests
45 – (Dec 27, 2022)
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Pakistani-British intellectual Tariq Ali discusses his unflinching biography of Winston Churchill, stripping away the mythological 'greatest Briton' to reveal a committed imperialist responsible for famines, massacres, and racist policies worldwide.
44 – (Dec 20, 2022)
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Political analyst Stansfield Smith delivers a historical assessment of why the American left has declined since its mid-20th-century peak, examining the combined effects of McCarthyism, union bureaucratization, and ideological fragmentation.
43– (Nov 29, 2022)
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Journalist Andy Campbell discusses his investigative book on the Proud Boys, the neo-fascist street-fighting organization, tracing its origins, ideology, violence, and connections to mainstream right-wing politics and the January 6th attack.
42– (Nov 22, 2022)
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Vietnam veteran and poet W.D. Ehrhart reads and discusses his poetry, confronting the reality of war, the mythology of military service, and the long aftermath of combat, a searing first-hand account of what American militarism costs its participants.
41 – (Nov 15, 2022)
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Historian Adam Hochschild recounts the dark period of American history from 1917 to 1921, when wartime hysteria produced mass repression of dissidents, labor organizers, immigrants, and civil liberties, with haunting parallels to the present.
40 – (Oct 27, 2022)
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Labor journalists Joe Jamison and Roger Keeran discuss their book on the Soviet collapse arguing it resulted not from socialism's inherent failures but from specific political decisions and the rise of a pro-capitalist faction within the party.
39 – (Sep 15, 2022)
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Investigative journalist Kathryn Joyce discusses her Salon series investigating the coordinated right-wing campaign to defund, privatize, and 'reform' public education through charter schools, voucher programs, and culture war tactics.
38 – (Sep 13, 2022)
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Civil rights lawyer Dan Canon argues that the US system of plea bargaining used to resolve over 97% of federal criminal cases has created a permanent underclass of the criminalized, stripping due process rights and entrenching racial and class inequality.
37 – (Aug 26, 2022)
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Human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik discusses the 'Pink Tide, ' the wave of left-wing electoral victories across Latin America, examining its causes, achievements, and the ongoing US efforts to undermine progressive governments in the region.
36 – (Aug 18, 2022)
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Eddie Smith of the Midwestern Marx podcast joins to discuss Michael Parenti's classic book examining the relationship between fascism and capitalism and the failures of the anticommunist left, a foundational text of the Marxist-Leninist tradition.
35 – (Aug 3, 2022)
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Psychiatrist and academic Joanna Moncrieff, whose landmark paper debunked the serotonin theory of depression, discusses how capitalism shapes mental health systems, the pharmaceutical industry's influence, and the crisis of over-medication.
34 – (July 7, 2022)
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Historian Gerald Horne explores the relationship between jazz music and racial capitalism, showing how Black artists created an art form of genius while being systematically exploited, and how the music industry's racism mirrored broader American apartheid.
33 – (July 5, 2022)
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Stephen Gowans argues that capitalism's profit motive, not incompetence, explains the catastrophic failure of Western governments to prevent COVID-19 deaths, tracing how market imperatives overrode public health at every turn.
32 – (June 21, 2022)
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Starbucks worker and organizer Angel Krempa discusses the historic Starbucks unionization wave, how baristas organized against a multi-billion-dollar corporation, the tactics used, and what the campaign means for the broader labor movement revival.
31 - (June 14, 2022)
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Documentary filmmaker Kent Garrett and co-author Jeanne Ellsworth discuss their book recounting the experiences of the 18 Black students who entered Harvard in 1963 and confronted racism within one of America's most elite institutions.
30 - (May 31, 2022)
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Dr. Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt Vonnegut and a practicing pediatrician, reflects on a lifetime in medicine, the joys and frustrations of caring for patients within a broken health care system, and what true medical vocation means.
