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Citizenship in the Ancient Roman Empire
Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego...
Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights
Guest: Scot Danforth is the Jack H. and Paula A. Hassinger Chair in Education and Professor of Disability Studies at Chapman University. He...
A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America
Guest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, for...
Ilan Pappe on the Future of Israel and Palestine
Guest: Ilan Pappé is a professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK and the director of the university’s European Centre for P...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Guest: Deborah G. Plant is an African American and Africana Studies Independent Scholar, Writer, and Literary Critic specializing in the lif...
Analysis of the Current Political Landscape with John Nichols
Guest: John Nichols is the executive editor of The Nation magazine. He previously served as the magazine’s national affairs correspondent an...
Geomythology, Folklore, & the Environment
Guest: Adrienne Mayor is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University. She is the author of many books,...
David Henry Thoreau: the Man Who Lived in Season
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of He...
The Legendary Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
Guest: Jeff Chang is an award-winning journalist and author who has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts and music. He is the...
Richard Wolff on What the Government Shutdown Means
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the...
Robert Reich: His Life and Political Journey
Guest: Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three pr...
The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Guest: George Monbiot is an author, journalist, and environmental campaigner. His books include Feral, Heat, Regenesis, and his latest, Invi...
Empire of AI with Karen Hao
Guest: Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications incl...
Martin Niemöller: Then They Came For Me
Guest: Matthew D. Hockenos is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Professor in 20th- Century History at Skidmore College. He is the author of A...
A History of Fascism and the Fightback
Guest: Mark Bray is a historian of Modern Europe History and human rights at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books including...
FCC Censorship and Free Speech at UC Berkeley
I. First Amendment in Question, Censorship and the Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension. Guest: Craig Aaron is the president and co-CEO of Free Press a...
The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Crackdown on the Left
Guest: Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor at Rutgers University, a columnist for Jacobin magazine, the host of the YouTube show and podcas...
Jeff Chang on the Legendary Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America.
Guest: Jeff Chang is an award-winning journalist and author who has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts and music. He is the...
The Power of Adrienne Rich
Guest: Hilary Holladay is a biographer, novelist, poet, and scholar of modern and contemporary American literature. She is a former director...