Ranked #1
Melinda Cooper on Neoliberal Family Values
Melinda Cooper on Neoliberal Family Values
We often think of neoliberalism as operating at odds with the traditional family. Our guest, Melinda Cooper, shows why n... Read more
6 Feb 2018
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40mins
Ranked #2
Marcia Chatelain on McDonalds and Black America
Marcia Chatelain on McDonalds and Black America
We’ve all heard the statistics regarding Americans and fast food. According to the National Health and Nutrition Survey,... Read more
1 May 2020
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29mins
Ranked #3
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation
Few social justice struggles have captivated recent political history like the broad Black Lives Matter movement. From t... Read more
1 Apr 2016
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45mins
Ranked #4
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Predatory Inclusion
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Predatory Inclusion
Often, analyses of the intersections between race and capitalism consider how capitalism harms dispossessed communities ... Read more
10 Jan 2020
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40mins
Ranked #5
Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality
Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality
Who owns the U.S. public debt? Why is it such an important commodity in global capitalism? Why does public debt provoke ... Read more
1 Sep 2016
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41mins
Ranked #6
Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking
Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking
Students in U.S. history surveys come away from their lessons on World War I with one conflict fresh in their minds: How... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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53mins
Ranked #7
Sarah Nicolazzo on 18th Century Vagrancy
Sarah Nicolazzo on 18th Century Vagrancy
Sarah Nicolazzo discusses how studying literature can shed light on the history of capitalism – and how the 18th century... Read more
2 Jul 2014
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54mins
Ranked #8
N.D.B. Connolly on Race and Real Estate in Miami
N.D.B. Connolly on Race and Real Estate in Miami
N.D.B. Connolly discusses how examining the ownership of real estate in Miami changes our perspective on the history of ... Read more
3 Sep 2014
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #9
Deb Cowen on the Deadly Life of Logistics
Deb Cowen on the Deadly Life of Logistics
Our guest today tells us that the seemingly straightforward field of logistics lies at the heart of contemporary globali... Read more
1 May 2015
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33mins
Ranked #10
Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent
Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent
In April, the high volume leak of the Panama Papers revealed an often unseen world of money and power. The leak of 11.5... Read more
3 Jan 2017
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54mins
Ranked #11
Geoff Mann on the Keynesian Sensibility in a World of Ecological and Economic Inequality
Geoff Mann on the Keynesian Sensibility in a World of Ecological and Economic Inequality
The name John Maynard Keynes is an important one in the history of economic thought. Keynes’s ideas became popular betwe... Read more
1 May 2017
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53mins
Ranked #12
Sherene Seikaly on Economic Thought in British Mandate Palestine
Sherene Seikaly on Economic Thought in British Mandate Palestine
Historian Sherene Seikaly uncovered a group of elitePalestinian men in 1930s and 1940s who articulated a nationaleconomi... Read more
2 May 2016
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34mins
Ranked #13
Suzanna Reiss on Drug Control, Coca-Cola, and Pharmaceuticals
Suzanna Reiss on Drug Control, Coca-Cola, and Pharmaceuticals
Today’s guest discusses the history of the coca leaf and the U.S. drug control regime. Amongst other topics, we discuss ... Read more
1 Jul 2015
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41mins
Ranked #14
Christy Chapin on the Centrality of Insurance Companies to American Health Care
Christy Chapin on the Centrality of Insurance Companies to American Health Care
Why is health care in the United States so expensive? Why does the United States find it so difficult to provide quality... Read more
2 Dec 2016
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45mins
Ranked #15
Nancy MacLean on the Radical Right and James Buchanan
Nancy MacLean on the Radical Right and James Buchanan
In Nancy MacLean’s new book—Democracy in Chains—she unveils a long history of efforts by right-wing officials and intell... Read more
4 Jul 2017
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #16
Sujani Reddy on Nursing and Empire
Sujani Reddy on Nursing and Empire
The history of nursing is inextricable from the history of capitalism and imperialism. Our guest today, Sujani Reddy, he... Read more
2 Jun 2016
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47mins
Ranked #17
Malcolm Harris on Millennials and the Economy That Made Them
Malcolm Harris on Millennials and the Economy That Made Them
Tired of reading endless clickbait articles about which industry millennials are killing today? Our guest Malcolm Harris... Read more
4 Apr 2018
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37mins
Ranked #18
Thomas Palley on the Fed and Shared Prosperity
Thomas Palley on the Fed and Shared Prosperity
Ever wonder what the Fed does and why? How are interest rates connected to how hard it is for you to find a job? We chat... Read more
1 Mar 2015
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32mins
Ranked #19
Daniel Amsterdam on the Business Campaign to Expand Government Spending
Daniel Amsterdam on the Business Campaign to Expand Government Spending
2 Aug 2016
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41mins
Ranked #20
David Huyssen on Progressive Era Cross-Class Encounters
David Huyssen on Progressive Era Cross-Class Encounters
David Huyssen discusses how examining encounters between the wealthy and the working class in Progressive Era New York C... Read more
1 Aug 2014
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31mins