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Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)

We are not what we think we are. Our self-image as natural individuated subjects is determined behind our backs: historically by political forces, cognitively by the language we use, and neurologically by sub-personal mechanisms, as revealed by scien... more

7 Nov 2025 • 59 min

Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)

While decolonization liberated territories, it left the root causes of historical injustice unaddressed. Governance change did not address past wrongs and transferred injustice through political and financial architectures.

In Calibrating Colonial C... more

4 Nov 2025 • 52 min

James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024)

How do comics cross boarders? In Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame James Scorer, a Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester, considers the rise of a distinctively Latin American comi... more

4 Nov 2025 • 41 min

brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)

Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing” as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates policing? In this clear and comprehensive account of why and how the police—the linchpin of capitalism... more

4 Nov 2025 • 1 hr

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Dr. Joshua Castellino

Professor of International and Comparative Law at Brunel University of London

Brunel University of London

Episode: Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)

Dr. Rebecca van Laer

Author and ex-academic with a PhD from Brown; her prior book was a novella that blends prose and poetry.

Bloomsbury

Episode: Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Natasha Piano

Assistant Professor of Political Studies at UCLA and Co-editor of Florentine Political Writing from Petrarch to Machiavelli

UCLA

Episode: Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Dr. Aria Fani

Assistant professor and director of Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Washington

University of Washington

Episode: Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dr. Gavin Flood

Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Episode: Gavin Flood, "The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra" (Routledge, 2024)

Elif Kalaycioglu

Assistant Professor of Political Science

University of Alabama

Episode: Elif Kalaycioglu, "The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Dr. Valerie Tiberius

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

Episode: What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters

Massimo Modonesi

Professor and chair of the Political and Social Sciences Faculty at the Autonomous National University in Mexico, author of various political theory and history works in Latin America.

Autonomous National University of Mexico

Episode: Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)

Maria Vignau

Research assistant under Modonesi, teaches and works on her PhD at the University of Washington.

University of Washington

Episode: Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)

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Absolutely engaging and informative discussion between Slobodian and Stern and the kind of format change that will set the pod apart. Hope you decide to continue in this direction.
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carterfrancis
United States5 months ago
Insightful research about capitalism + whack picks
Hit or miss episodes. The episodes hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher recently are the best, with researchers who apply pretty diverse methodologies to building our understanding of history of labor, science / philosophy, finance, and institutions under capitalism and imperialism. Other episodes are wild, typical virtue-signaling masturbatory culture-war-fetishizing types of content that don’t seem to understand what capitalism is or that we operate within it. Gotta pick the ones worth listening to.
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Switch inpressionalist
United States7 months ago
Extremely disappointing. I thought this was a rigorous leftist podcast.
I used to listen to this podcast regularly, but I will no longer be doing so. The episode with genocide apologist Susie Linfield was offensive, racist, unserious and smug. The usual Zionist qualities. Susie poses as a leftist, but is anything but. She attacks the real left in patronizing fashion, without any substantive critique of her own, positioning herself as an expert in the Middle East and “Terrorism” while ignoring or dismissing the real experts in the field. The host coddles her rac... more
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vc jrr gr gh
United States2 years ago
Important topics to be understood
I really appreciate the work of this podcast on exploring topics from the academic perspective in areas of philosophy, political science, sociology and many areas usually underexplored in an intelectual way. One fascinating topic in many episodes of the podcast is the understanding of colonialist ideologies in western societies and what many people are doing to create a more equal and fair society. The work of these researches is amazing.
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Palunargar
United States2 years ago
Wide ranging, valuable scholarship
I’m thankful for these young, inspired, articulate people, sharing ideas to improve our world
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brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)

Q: How does your analysis of class as a social relationship inform this analysis of policing?

Brian argues that police are not workers but a hyper-repressive form of the managerial class tasked with repressing other working-class people, explaining that this social relationship defines their antagonistic nature.

brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)

Q: Can you talk about how you came to that title, and what it is you're proposing with it?

Brian explains that the title evokes the starkly unequal world we live in and highlights the need to end policing as a central task for building a new world founded on safety, democracy, and equality.

Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)

Q: What are the conditions under which we can think about alienation?

Mattin proposes playful forms of estrangement to deal with structural alienation, suggesting a method for collectivizing unease.

Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)

Q: What was your role in this performance experience for me?

Mattin describes how his performance aims to make social dissonance resonate and puts forward the concept of collectivizing this dissonance.

Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)

Q: So one option you suggest in the book is the idea of an international crime of unjust enrichment. Do we have this already? If not, what could this look like and why might it help?

Unjust enrichment is a way to reclaim wealth that was taken unethically during colonial times, primarily from private corporations and individuals who benefited disproportionately.

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