Dec 2024
Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China (from 2021)
Noam Chomsky and Yascha Mounk discuss America and the world, past and present.
Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for many decades been one of the most prominent critics of U.S. foreign policy.
In a conversation from ... Show More
55m 8s
Apr 2024
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford UP, 2024). An expert in constitutional law, Pozen argues that the drug war has been an unmitigated disaster, in terms of ... Show More
58m 55s
Mar 2023
#400 - "Trump Indicted (And It Feels So Good)"
* Well, it feels good to various MSNBC hosts, late-night comedians, and resistance types* We don’t *know* how it feels* Because no one wants to admit that we *don’t know* very much* It’s all about race, actually* That NPR interview with Al Sharpton * The opposite of Alan Dershowi ... Show More
1h 34m
Feb 2024
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a racial system of social control of urban minority populations, an extension of the federal war on black street crime and the foundation for the "new Jim Crow" of mass incarceration as ... Show More
59m 36s
Oct 2024
Kick Israel Out Of The UN Pronto! | Working-Class Stiffs Won’t Get Stiffed Again In US Elections
On this Moats, George Galloway gives his take after the sudden death of former SNP leader Alex Salmond, 'Salmond was a friend of mine'. Israeli beachniks fighting to take other people’s, Kick Israel out of the UN pronto. Working-class stiffs won’t get stiffed again. Waltz v Vance ... Show More
1h 13m
May 21
[BEST OF] The Noam Chomsky Interview: Fragility of US Power w/ Vijay Prashad
ORIGINALLY RELEASED Aug 19, 2022 In this landmark episode, we sit down with the legendary Noam Chomsky and renowned historian Vijay Prashad to discuss their insightful new book, The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power. Exploring the aftermath of ... Show More
1h 57m
Aug 2024
Racism Rears its Ugly Head ... Again
Just as soon as Kamala Harris' presidential campaign began nearly four weeks ago, so too did the ugly, age-old racist attacks, with Donald Trump questioning his rival's race in a sit-down interview with Black journalists. Bianna speaks with Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Har ... Show More
1h 1m
Oct 2023
Sam Harris X Eric Weinstein: Israel-Palestine
Sam and Eric join us to discuss current events and debate the wider issues at play.
Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. A central voice in the New Atheism movement, he is a well-known critic of religious ideology. Eric Weinstein is a mathematical p ... Show More
2h 1m
Feb 2024
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his new book Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America’s Drug War, with Oxford University Press. George has been teaching and writing in the realms of evidence, prosecuti ... Show More
1h 3m