Pandemic
01 Apr 2022
Astra interviews Achal Prabhala on the lethal persistence of global vaccine apartheid. Moderna is selfishly refusing to share or even sell (license) its mRNA technology, leaving much of the world unprotected from the pandemic and...
21 Jan 2022
Epidemiologist Justin Feldman makes a comprehensive and devastating critique of Biden’s pandemic response.
20 Mar 2021
Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today’s government-funded vaccines put under private pharma control.
23 Aug 2020
Dan’s recent live event with Yanis Varoufakis on how 2020 revealed that 2008 had changed capitalism forever.
16 Jun 2020
In this episode:
All Cops Are Idiots (featuring Kafui Attoh, you can buy his book here:
ugapress.org/book/9780820354217/rights-in-transit)
11 Jun 2020
Dan interviews returning guests Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the long history behind the crisis of American imperial legitimation that has become so manifest amid the pandemic.
08 Jun 2020
In this episode:
The Corner (featuring
Pablo Alvarado and the
National Day Laborer Organizing Network)
31 May 2020
In this episode:
Zoom Canvas (featuring
Nikil Saval)
23 May 2020
Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today.
16 May 2020
Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science.
01 May 2020
Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn’t that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse.
03 Apr 2020
Dan interviews Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the politics of public health and what we can learn from ACT UP.
30 Mar 2020
Dan interviews New York magazine writer Eric Levitz on the big corporate bailout that gave workers precious little to survive the corona crisis.
27 Mar 2020
Dan interviews Marxist economist Grace Blakeley on coronavirus economics.
20 Mar 2020
Dan interviews Mike Davis about everything we are all suddenly trying to figure out.