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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

The Black Axe

by Harper’s Magazine, on August 28, 2019

Everywhere and nowhere: tracing the evolution of a notorious Nigerian fraternity

The Family

by Harper’s Magazine, on August 15, 2019

Brought into the light: Jeff Sharlet and Jesse Moss discuss the secretive, Washington-based religious organization that is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries

The Call of the Drums

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Jacob Mikanowski on August 8, 2019

Where the barbarians are: the Hungarian right’s obsession with a false history

The Last Frontier

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Ted Conover on July 31, 2019

Range life: the not entirely romantic existence of homesteaders in the San Luis Valley

A Play with No End

by Harper’s Magazine, on July 25, 2019

Force majeure: What the American left could learn from the Gilets Jaunes

The Hardest Music and the Softest Animals

by Harper’s Magazine, on July 12, 2019

Nell Zink discusses her latest novel, zines, and musical reverberation

“Just Keep Going North”

by Harper’s Magazine, on July 3, 2019

Theories on the frontier: the process, politics, and ethics that arise while covering the U.S.-Mexico border

Stonewall at Fifty

by Harper’s Magazine, on June 26, 2019

Three writers and activists consider the meanings of Pride

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Harper’s Magazine, on June 5, 2019

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

The Abortion Bans

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Rachel Nolan, Madeleine Schwartz, Brigitte Amiri on May 23, 2019

A discussion about the recent spate of legislation that seems to threaten a woman’s right to choose

Downstream

by Harper’s Magazine, on May 15, 2019

Rag-and-bone: the resale of items trashed in the United States and shipped to Haiti says a lot about history, politics, and drugs

Humanitarian Wars?

by Harper’s Magazine, on May 7, 2019

Olive branch as a club: a former president of Doctors Without Borders outlines how the justifications for war have evolved

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