Adorno in America

We speak with Willi Goetschel about Theodor Adorno’s work and how his time in the U.S. shaped his thinking. Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His research includes Jewish thought, German Enlightenment and idealism, critical theory, and social and political theory.

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On Black Marxism, Racial Capitalism and World Systems Theory

We speak with Yousuf Al-Bulushi about the work of Cedric Robinson. Yousuf Al-Bulushi, global and international studies assistant professor at UC Irvine, is a political geographer who focuses on Africa. His research looks at urban space, comparative global movements, and the political economy of globalization within the African landscape.

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The Economics of Creating a Television Show

We speak with David Moscow about the economics of the TV industry. David Moscow is an actor, director, producer and activist. He is best known for Big, Newsies and Just Married. He is the co-creator and star of the new television show From Scratch.

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The EU Foreign Policy Shift: From Soft Power to Muscular Militarism

We speak with Hanna Muehlenhoff about how and why the EU is normalizing militarism. Hanna Muehlenhoff is Lecturer in European Policy and European Integration at the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).

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Teddy Wayne on class, NYC in the 1990s and his new novel Apartment

We talk with Teddy Wayne about his new novel Apartment. Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A regular contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently adapting Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine into series for HBO and MGM Television. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Kate Greathead, and their children.

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On Life in Freetown Christiania

We talk with Tom Smith about Freetown Christiania and the importance of nowtopias. Tom Smith is a postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and is an editor at the Dark Mountain Project.

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What Are 'Smart Cities'?

We speak with Natasha Tusikov about ‘Smart Cities’. Dr. Tusikov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation, and she is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-investigator on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant “Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century” (2016-2020). She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2018-2020) assessing data governance in smart cities with a focus on the proposed smart city development in Toronto.

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Monopoly Power: The Greatest Threat to Democracy?

Jonathan talks with Matt Stoller about the dangers of concentrated corporate power. Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.

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On the 2020 presidential election in Taiwan, protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power

We speak with Brian Hioe about the recent Taiwanese presidential election, the protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power in the region. Brian Hioe is a founding editor of New Bloom. New Bloom is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific. New Bloom was founded by a group of students and activists after the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan.

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Global Social Unrest But No Revolution: Why?

We discuss why we need two internationales and a World Party with Sahan Savas Karatasli. Sahan Savas Karatasli is a global and macro-historical sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has been extensively studying and writing on the evolution of historical capitalism, global inequality, social movements, nationalism and labor in the capitalist world economy.

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