Conflict Fruit: Should You Boycott Avocados From Mexico?

We talk to Ioan Grillo about avocados and the drug war. Ioan Grillo (@ioangrillo), a contributing New York Times Opinion writer, is the author of “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency” and, most recently, “Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America.”

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Brecht: An Introduction

We discuss the life, work and ethics of Bertolt Brecht with Markus Wessendorf.  Markus Wessendorf is a Professor of Theatre and the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is currently the main editor of The Brecht Yearbook.

Stamp from the former East Germany depicting Brecht and a scene from his Life of Galileo

Stamp from the former East Germany depicting Brecht and a scene from his Life of Galileo

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Precarity and Development in India

We speak with Surbhi Kesar about the idea of development as transition. Surbhi Kesar is a PhD Candidate in Economics at South Asian University, New Delhi, and Research Fellow at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.

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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 ApartmentLonerThe 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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