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False Dawn

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Khadijah Queen on July 31, 2020

The constant surprise of COVID-19 Read More

We Shall Not Be Moved

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Audrea Lim on July 28, 2020

Community land trusts and the promise of more equitably grown food Read More

Bogland

Host Violet Lucca, Guest William Atkins on July 3, 2020

Peat, bogs, and the Irish imaginary Read More

This Is Not a Test

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Barrett Swanson on June 18, 2020

Man-made disasters: the benefits and limitations of emergency preparedness Read More

Grand Designs

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Ian Volner on June 10, 2020

Better living through affordable housing Read More

Tests of Time

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Christopher Beha on May 22, 2020

Making a magazine during a pandemic Read More

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Thomas Frank on May 15, 2020

Government of the people? Thomas Frank on the history of populism and anti-populism Read More

Constant Delighted Astonishment

by Geoffrey O’Brien, Host Violet Lucca, on May 8, 2020

Everybody loves a clown, so why don’t you? On Jacques Tati Read More

Dream State

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Yi-Ling Liu on April 30, 2020

Mask on: pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong return to the streets Read More

The Money Question

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Christopher W. Shaw on April 17, 2020

Peeling back the layers of the Federal Reserve—and thinking through potential reforms Read More

Dreams of Stone

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Ishion Hutchinson on April 9, 2020

Transcendent moments of memory, authorship, heritage, and religion among the churches of Lalibela Read More

Good Guys with Guns

Host Violet Lucca, Guest James Pogue on April 2, 2020

Rethinking America’s not-so-complicated relationship with guns Read More

The Old Normal

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Andrew J. Bacevich on March 13, 2020

Into the morass: a historical view of America’s disastrous foreign policy

Vicious Cycles

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Greg Jackson on February 19, 2020

No news isn’t an option: a consideration of the function and meaning of the news media

Selective Hearing

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Hugh Eakin on February 12, 2020

Towards a critical understanding of podcasts

“My Gang Is Jesus”

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Alex Cuadros on January 30, 2020

Believe it or not: the simultaneous rise of gang membership and evangelical Christianity in Rio de Janeiro

Trumpism After Trump

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Thomas Meaney on January 16, 2020

More than four more years? A look at the philosophy and die-hard adherents of National Conservatism

Oceans Apart

by Violet Lucca, Guest Tommy Trenchard on January 9, 2020

The Comoro Islands are a microcosm of the global climate crisis to come

Click Here to Kill

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Brian Merchant on December 31, 2019

Hiring a hitman online isn’t just speculative fiction

Body Language

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on December 24, 2019

More than the right word: on telling a genderqueer narrative

More Than Thankful

by Rhonda Y. Williams, Lana Dee Povitz, Monica M. White, on November 27, 2019

Farm to table: the history of food activism in the United States

Men at Work

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Barrett Swanson on November 20, 2019

Beyond a primal scream: the problems with trying to solve the problem of toxic masculinity

Impeachment and the Mueller Report

by Harper’s Magazine, on November 13, 2019

A panel of legal experts, lawmakers, and historians attempt to decode the enigmatic (or just unsatisfying) investigation, and discuss impeachment

Left of Europe

Host Violet Lucca, Ashley Smith, Guest Cat Boyd, James Foley, David Renton, Richard Seymour on November 6, 2019

Untangling the Brexit question with a panel of activists and leftists from around the United Kingdom

To Serve Is to Rule

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Doug Henwood on October 30, 2019

The not-so-good ol’ days: considering the WASP supremacy

The K–12 Takeover

by Harper’s Magazine, on October 23, 2019

The tipping point: how charters and the Trump Administration are failing children

Conditions of Impeachment

by Harper’s Magazine, on October 9, 2019

As part of a forum on the Constitution, five lawmakers and legal scholars consider probable cause for using the Fourteenth Amendment

Good Bad Bad Good

by Harper’s Magazine, on October 2, 2019

Tube time: taking apart the Golden Age of TV

The Wood Chipper

by Harper’s Magazine, on September 24, 2019

The inner workings of the N.F.L. Scouting Combine and the uncertain future of the game

Common Ground

by Harper’s Magazine, on September 13, 2019

Feet of clay: on the troublesome uses of archeology, past and present

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