Can Anarchism Work?

In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock inspector to the Coast Guard to the president failed them.See omnystudio.com/listen ... Show More

The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

We all love to tour our generation's superiority, but who decides where the split occurs and what to name it? And is this even a thing or just an arbitrary division?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anarchism and why its political ideas became synonymous with chaos and disorder. Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that “Anarchy is order”. Speaking in 1840, he was the first self-proclaimed ... Show More

Dernière séance de l’Université populaire de la société d’histoire de 1848, mercredi 7 juin de 18h30 à 20h30 à la mairie du XVIIIe arrondissement de Paris. Avec Sidonie Verhaeghe, maitresse de conférences en science politique, auteure de Vive Louise Michel ! Célébrité et postérit ... Show More

Andrew joins us to talk about what an anarchist society would actually look like and how it would functionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Was Nehruvian Policy responsible for India-China War? On Episode 90, Hamsini Hariharan answers a question about the personal beliefs of leaders and larger repercussions. Please Note: The New Episode of States of Anarchy will release on Thursday instead of Tuesday.Read More:1) Neh ... Show More

What would you do if the government collapsed? Over the last eight years, the men and women of North-East Syria have had a chance to answer that question for themselves. Using the political theories of an American anarchist and a Kurdish terrorist, they've built a feminist oasis ... Show More

What is causation? Is the universe determined and predictable? And where does that leave humanity, with its notions of free will and moral responsibility? And how does this affect our role as revolutionaries? Want to learn more about philosophy? Pre-order your copy of Alan Woods' ... Show More

<p>What if you could put troublesome citizens into time out for a decade? That's what ancient Athenians did through the practice of ostracism. This vote, which wasn't the same thing as a trial, resulted in a surprisingly progressive ten-year exile for the ostracized. In today's e ... Show More

<p>How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/25/archives/the-chomsky-problem-chomsky.html"> called</a> him “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More than 40 years later, Chomsk ... Show More