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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content.Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode for some background!Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in t...
· 59 min 8 sec
In anticipation for our two-part conversation on the Sino-Soviet split, we're reposting the episode we did laying the groundwork.Danny and Derek welcome Jeremy Friedman, Marvin Bower associate profess...
· 44 min 32 sec
Subscribe now for the full episode!Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Ben Fogel, head of publishing at the Alameda Institute and contributing editor at Jacobin, to chat about South Africa. Th...
· 10 min 1 sec
Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all breaking news specials.Danny sits down with Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic to talk about yesterday's ruling that Columbia organizer Mahmoud Khalil may b...
· 5 min 2 sec
We reluctantly approved Derek’s vacation time, but the news marches on, so Danny welcomes back to the show Alex Jordan of the Quincy Institute to help bring you headlines from around the world. They f...
· 1 hr 4 min 56 sec
Danny and Derek welcome to the show Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, for a wide-ranging discussion on this moment in politics. They delve into the radicalization...
· 54 min 52 sec
Danny and Derek welcome to the show Andy Liu, professor of history at Villanova, for a discussion on Trump, Xi, their respective histories, and the current trade situation between the US and China. Th...
· 9 min 59 sec
Danny and Derek welcome to the show Vivek Chibber, editor of Catalyst and host of the Confronting Capitalism podcast, to talk about the widespread tariffs Trump announced this week, what it would mean...
· 5 min 51 sec
This week on the news roundup: the US and Iran are making moves risking escalation to a conflict (0:43); Israel rejects another Gaza ceasefire as it plans to carve up the Strip (7:28); the IDF resumes...
· 41 min 17 sec
Yoni Appelbaum, a deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, joins the program to talk about his book Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. They discuss...
· 1 hr 6 min 26 sec
Aziz Rana, J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College, is back on the program to talk about the 20th and 21st century constitutional order leading to the curre...
· 9 min 27 sec
This week in the world: the IDF seizes more territory in Gaza (1:01) and the Israeli government forms a “voluntary emigration bureau” (5:19), while protests against Hamas break out in the Strip (7:53)...
· 40 min 35 sec
Hugh Wilford, professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, is on the program for the first of two episodes on his book The CIA: An Imperial History. In this first part, they explor...
· 1 hr 1 min 1 sec
Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Mark Ames, co-host of Radio War Nerd, to talk about where things stand in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. They discuss Trump and Putin's relationship, the stat...
· 6 min 19 sec
In this week’s news: Israelis break the Gaza ceasefire (0:33); Trump resumes America’s war on Yemen’s Ansar Allah/Houthis (6:09); clashes break out on the border of Syria and Lebanon (10:15); a presid...
· 38 min 44 sec
Danny and Derek speak with Chicago-based historian and writer Charlotte Rosen about the end of so-called “Resistance history”, a particular strain of liberal historiography that emerged during the fir...
· 1 hr 5 min 14 sec