Family Policing Punishes Poor Families and Protects White Supremacy / Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and s...
13 Sep 20221h 36min
SCOTUS v. Democracy / Steve Fraser
Historian Steve Fraser talks about his Tom Dispatch article "The Trump Supreme Court is Nothing New," about how the Supreme Court has over time been used to kneecap the democrat process in the U.S., a...
12 Sep 202246min
The Supreme Court - Guardrail against Excessive Democracy / Steve Fraser
Steve Fraser talks about his Tom Dispatch article "The Trump Supreme Court is Nothing New." Chuck complains about the hell of a week he's had. Seb presents another Past inside the Present, in which he...
12 Sep 20221h 25min
Naturally Noxious: Misplaced Faith in Appalachian Natural Gas Industry / Sean O'Leary
Chuck Mertz talks with Sean O'Leary about his writing for the Ohio River Valley Institute on the impact of the natural gas industry on Appalachian Americans. Also including this week's Hangover Cure, ...
6 Sep 20221h 19min
The History of Personhood in the Abortion Debate / Brianna Muir
Brianna Muir wrote the Sapiens article, "An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ...
31 Aug 20221h 27min
Leaving the Ivy League / William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz is a writer and former professor of English at Yale University. William discusses his article "Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering)" published August 17th 2022 on Quillete....
30 Aug 20221h 13min
Flooding in Eastern Kentucky / Tarence Ray
We have on Tarence Ray from the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast to discuss the devastating effects of recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky and how the government response affected the poor and workin...
29 Aug 20221h 22min
How Bad is Inflation? / Dean Baker
The return of economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research. Dean is on to discuss his most recent writing, including, “Structuring the Economy to Give Money to the ...
24 Aug 20221h 8min
