We speak with Alisa Sopova about the hardships people face in the war zone of eastern Ukraine. Alisa Sopova is an independent journalist from Ukraine.
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The Political Economy of Land Conservation
We speak with Prakash Kashwan about the best ways to protect nature (and why more land conservation might not be the answer). Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut who has studied the politics of wildlife and biodiversity conservation for over a decade and a half.
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The Public Option: Why Stop At Health Care?
We speak with Ganesh Sitaraman about why we need public options for everything. Ganesh Sitaraman is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School. He is the co-author of “The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity and Promote Equality.
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Vox: The New Far Right Force in Spain
We discuss Spanish politics with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a professor at Fordham University. He has written extensively, both in academic contexts and in the press, on the current social and political conjuncture in Spain, and on political forces including Podemos and the Municipalist Confluences. A Spaniard living in the US for more than ten years now, Vicente has also been active in building connections and mutual understanding between these forces and their counterparts in North America.
Understanding Turkish Power
We discuss Turkey’s assertive foreign policy with Gönenç Uysal. Gönenç Uysal is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. Professor Uysal pursued a PhD in War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the interaction between and among capitalism, class, state, modernity, religion, war, and military affairs. She tweets @gonencuysal.
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Fall Reading List!
We thought it would be fun to put together a Back to School reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our nightstands right now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them!
Fiction
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Severance by Ling Ma
Non-Fiction
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
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Agroecology and African Agricultural Innovation
We speak with Chris Conz about resisting the capitalist agricultural development model. Chris Conz teaches African history at Tufts University.
On Reparations
We speak with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad about reparations. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is chief of equity and inclusion at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and co-author of the report, “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide.”
Back to School Week! Are Asian-Americans being held back?
We speak with Andrew Lam about Asian-Americans and college admissions. Andrew Lam is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, and the author of “Saving Sight” and “Two Sons of China.”
