Ranked #1
Ep Five: Neoliberalism
Ep Five: Neoliberalism
Andrew and Ray consider the relationship between liberalism and neoliberalism.
1 Jan 2018
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49mins
Ranked #2
Ep Twenty Three: A Counter-Hegemonic Foreign Policy
Ep Twenty Three: A Counter-Hegemonic Foreign Policy
Historian Daniel Bessner joins Andrew and Ray for a discussion of American foreign policy. What would a leftist foreign ... Read more
1 Feb 2019
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57mins
Ranked #3
Ep Thirty-Five: Sweden's Response to Covid19
Ep Thirty-Five: Sweden's Response to Covid19
Professor Gina Gustavsson from the Department of Government at Uppsala University speaks with Ray and Andrew about Swede... Read more
19 May 2020
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42mins
Ranked #4
Ep Thirteen: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Post-racialism, & Class
Ep Thirteen: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Post-racialism, & Class
Using an article by Touré F. Reed as a springboard, Ray and Andrew discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barack Obama, and the polit... Read more
1 May 2018
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47mins
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Ep Twenty Two: Why Niebuhr, Ray?
Ep Twenty Two: Why Niebuhr, Ray?
In this episode, Ray explains the intellectual appeal of Reinhold Niebuhr. Andrew remains skeptical. For this episode we... Read more
18 Jan 2019
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47mins
Ranked #6
Ep Twenty-Eight: Sunkara on Socialism
Ep Twenty-Eight: Sunkara on Socialism
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin Magazine, comes on the show to discuss his new book The Socialist Manifesto: The Cas... Read more
20 Oct 2019
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59mins
Ranked #7
Ep Eighteen: The Working Class, the American Dream
Ep Eighteen: The Working Class, the American Dream
Jefferson Cowie comes on the show to discuss the working class, patriotism, and the state of leftist politics. Ray and A... Read more
15 Oct 2018
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48mins
Ranked #8
Ep Twenty-Nine: Of Corbyn and Elections
Ep Twenty-Nine: Of Corbyn and Elections
Andrew and Ray talk Corbyn, Trump, Bernie, and our political moment. They also provide a short briefing on the annual U-... Read more
10 Jan 2020
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56mins
Ranked #9
Ep Three: The Wal-Mart Effect on Higher Education
Ep Three: The Wal-Mart Effect on Higher Education
Andrew and Ray draw from Bethany Moreton's book To Serve God and Wal-Mart as they consider the relationship between neol... Read more
1 Dec 2017
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37mins
Ranked #10
Ep Fourteen: The Politics of Sports
Ep Fourteen: The Politics of Sports
How did sports get so political? Ray and Andrew discuss the NFL, NBA, NCAA and the ways in which American sports are sha... Read more
17 May 2018
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50mins
Ranked #11
Ep Twelve: Marx vs Lincoln!
Ep Twelve: Marx vs Lincoln!
Ray and Andrew battle it out over the films The Young Karl Marx (2017) and Lincoln (2012). Read A. O. Scott's review of... Read more
15 Apr 2018
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42mins
Ranked #12
Ep Twenty-Seven: Extinction or Nostalgia for Academe?
Ep Twenty-Seven: Extinction or Nostalgia for Academe?
Andrew and Ray discuss 'quit lit,' the humanities, and the state of higher ed. When was the golden era for training and ... Read more
1 Sep 2019
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50mins
Ranked #13
Ep Eight: Neoliberalism (part two)
Ep Eight: Neoliberalism (part two)
Andrew and Ray return to the topic of neoliberalism. What does the term mean and how has that meaning changed? What is i... Read more
15 Feb 2018
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43mins
Ranked #14
Ep Thirty-Three: Long Live Bernie Sanders!
Ep Thirty-Three: Long Live Bernie Sanders!
Andrew and Ray discuss Super Tuesday and the future of Bernie's movement.
9 Mar 2020
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50mins
Ranked #15
Ep Ten: Zinn and the Art of History
Ep Ten: Zinn and the Art of History
On this episode of Trotsky & the Wild Orchids our hosts, Andrew and Ray, talk about Howard Zinn's A People's History... Read more
15 Mar 2018
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38mins
Ranked #16
Ep Seventeen: The New Socialism
Ep Seventeen: The New Socialism
Andrew and Ray discuss millennials, student debt, and the New Socialism. See "I Came of Age During the 2008 Financial Cr... Read more
1 Oct 2018
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52mins
Ranked #17
Ep Thirty-Four: Rona
Ep Thirty-Four: Rona
Ray and Andrew discuss our covid19 moment. What are the political implications of this pandemic? How do we understand th... Read more
16 Apr 2020
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1hr
Ranked #18
Ep Eleven: Free Speech Freakout
Ep Eleven: Free Speech Freakout
Is the college campus closed to free speech? Ray and Andrew offer a sober discussion of the free speech controversy that... Read more
1 Apr 2018
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40mins
Ranked #19
EP Twenty: RIP Leo Ribuffo, Historian Extraordinaire
EP Twenty: RIP Leo Ribuffo, Historian Extraordinaire
A special episode of T&TWO, Andrew and Ray discuss the work of recently deceased historian (and Andrew's dissertatio... Read more
10 Dec 2018
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #20
Ep Twenty-Six: GoT, Avengers
Ep Twenty-Six: GoT, Avengers
Andrew, Ray, and Daniel discuss Game of Thrones and Avengers: End Game. Did GoT decline as in the last few seasons? And ... Read more
24 May 2019
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46mins
