Spring Break Reading List

We thought it might be fun to put together a Spring Break reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our nightstands now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them! Feel free to write in with suggestions for Summer Break.

Non-fiction

The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

Reappraisals by Tony Judt

Fiction

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

All That Man Is by David Szalay

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

On Settler Colonialism

We talk with Gerald Horne about his book, “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean.” Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry.

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Making Sense of the DSA

We talk with Dan La Botz about the state of the Democratic Socialists of America two years after the “Bernie Bump.” Dan La Botz is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico.

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To what extent does U.S. prosperity depend on exploitation?

We called Arthur MacEwan to find out the answer. Professor MacEwan taught at UMass Boston from 1975 to 2008 and is now professor emeritus in the Department of Economics. His range of courses included those on economic development, macroeconomics, the economics of education, Latin America, economic history and Marxist economics.

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How the Swedes Do It

We talk with Monica Prasad about taxes in Sweden. Sweden has lower poverty rates, less inequality and higher mobility than the U.S. How do they do it? The answer is not what you expect. Monica Prasad is a professor of sociology and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and is the author, most recently, of “Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution.”

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The Causes and Implications of Regional Economic Disparities

We speak with Gerald Friedman about the growing economic gap between the poorer states in the U.S. and the wealthier coastal regions. Gerald Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Professor Friedman has research interests in the areas of economic history, specifically 19th- and 20th-century France and the US; political economies; and the economics of healthcare. He has drafted financing plans for single-payer healthcare systems, and has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

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Two events in NYC this week!

We speak with Garon Scott of the NYC DSA Racial Justice Working Group about two important events happening this week. On March 7th, the Elected Civilian Review Board Campaign will have a speaker at the police-accountability-focused Charter forum at City Council Chambers, and hopes to pack the chambers with at least 100 campaign supporters. On March 9th, the campaign against school suspensions will hold a public delivery of petition signatures on the steps of City Hall. Listen to the show for more details!

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The Weaponization of Anti-Semitism

We speak with Dr. Stephen R. Shalom about the weaponization of anti-semitism against supporters of BDS and critics of Israel. Steve Shalom teaches political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey, where he is director of the Middle East Studies minor. He's a member of the editorial board of the journal New Politics and works with the northern NJ chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. He has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and on the Middle East.

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Why the Democrats will win in 2020

We speak with Rachel Bitecofer on why the Democrats will win the 2020 election, whether Bernie is a good candidate, and the implications of a polarized America. Rachel Bitecofer (@RachelBitecofer), a political-science professor at the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, in Virginia, is the author of “The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election.” Professor Bitecofer successfully predicted the outcome of the 2018 mid-term elections months before 538 and other experts. We were introduced to her work when we read David Leonhardt’s column here and you can find her most recent NYT Op-Ed here.

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Operation Ajax

We speak with Bridey Heing about the CIA’s first coup. Bridey Heing is a writer and critic based in Washington, DC. Her writing on literature, culture, and politics has been published by The Economist, the Times Literary Supplement, and Pacific Standard, among others.

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