Episodes by Category
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EP85: Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination (ft. Elif Genc, Payton McDonald, Max Haiven, & Alex Khasnabish)
Listen nowThere’s a story you can tell about the post-Occupy left gravitating towards a more state-oriented kind of politics. However, this misses strong autonomous and anarchist-inflected social movements. In this episode, we examine the theory and practice of anti-statist organizing, including the Kurds within the area formerly known as Rojava.
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EP84: Big Psychedelic (ft. Erika Dyke and David Nickles)
Listen nowPsychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — personal revelation, cosmic oneness, spiritual enlightenment, whatever people have called it — and make it just another commodity? We look at the deep rifts in and around psychedelic medicine, as different camps vie for the future of these drugs.
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Summer Production Update
Listen nowYou may have noticed we’re publishing less frequently this summer. The team is taking some time off and going through a bit of a transition.
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EP83: The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (ft. Raj Patel, Joel Bakan, and more)
Listen nowThe WEF is yet another example of the scrambled ideologues of our moment. Conservatives condemn the WEF, and news organizations like Rebel cover it doggedly; at the same time, left-leaning NGOs speak there, and progressive news organizations say little. On this episode, we examine the shifting politics around our global financial elites.
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EP82: The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
Listen nowWhat’s safer than baby powder? Parents have been using it for over 100 years to powder their baby’s bottoms, and they’ve found one brand especially trustworthy: Johnson & Johnson. Yet, numerous studies have revealed the presence of trace amounts of asbestos in this talc-based powder.