Episodios

  • Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ Ilias Alami

    Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ Ilias Alami
    Nov 30 2025
    Subscribe now to listen to the full episode and get access to all of our Sunday bonuses. Danny and Derek speak to Ilias Alami, assistant professor of political economy at Cambridge, about the global shift from neoliberalism to new forms of state capitalism. They discuss the rebalancing of economic power toward East Asia; sovereign wealth funds, policy banks, and state-owned enterprises; and the role of states in industrial strategy, technology, and supply chains. They also touch on China, AI, and the overlap between economic rivalry and geopolitical confrontation. Check out the book Ilias co-authored, The Spectre of State Capitalism.
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    9 m
  • Chinese Prestige: The Making of the PRC w/ Yidi Wu

    Chinese Prestige: The Making of the PRC w/ Yidi Wu
    Nov 28 2025
    Instead of a news roundup, we are releasing the second episode of our new miniseries ⁠Chinese Prestige⁠. Annual subscribers already have access, while everyone else can get the 8 episodes for $5 for two weeks only. This conversation examines China’s early post-Korean War period and the political and social campaigns that defined the new PRC. The group discusses land reform, the Three-anti and Five-anti campaigns, Soviet-style economic planning centered on heavy industry, and the technocratic overhaul of higher education. They also explore China’s deteriorating relationship with the United States, shifting ties with the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death, early signs of the Sino-Soviet split, and Mao’s tightening control. Theme music by Jake Aron, based on the song “The East is Red.”
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    51 m
  • Hyperfixed - Third Eye Blind

    Hyperfixed - Third Eye Blind
    Nov 27 2025
    Danny speaks with Alex Goldman about his new podcast ⁠Hyperfixed⁠, in which he works to get to the bottom of listeners’ complex problems, or at least enough of an explanation that they’re ok with the annoyance. We have then provided the full episode of “Third Eye Blind,” where one Mitchell finds out he's missing something almost everyone else has, and he wants to know -- who would I be if I had it? If you like what you hear, why not support Alex and ⁠join Hyperfixed⁠? Otherwise, have a great holiday, and keep your eyes peeled for the second episode of ⁠Chinese Prestige⁠ on the AP feed tomorrow!
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    42 m
  • Chinese Prestige: From May Fourth to Mao w/ Yidi Wu

    Chinese Prestige: From May Fourth to Mao w/ Yidi Wu
    Nov 25 2025
    In lieu of a typical Tuesday episode this week, we are releasing the first episode of our new miniseries Chinese Prestige. Annual subscribers already have access, while everyone else can get the 8 episodes for a whopping $5 for two weeks only. Enjoy! In this first episode of Chinese Prestige, Yidi, Danny, and Derek trace the origins of the Chinese Communist Party from the May Fourth Movement to the civil war with the Nationalists. They explore the party’s strategic shift from cities to the countryside, the role of land reform and mass mobilization, the impact of the Japanese invasion and World War II, and the rise of Mao Zedong. The episode follows the party through its victory in 1949, the founding of the People’s Republic of China, early state-building, and China’s entry into the Korean War. The group concludes in 1953 with the launch of the first five-year plan and its push for rapid industrial development. Theme music by Jake Aron, based on the song “The East is Red.”
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    56 m
  • Special - Radio War Nerd in Print! w/ Mark Ames

    Special - Radio War Nerd in Print! w/ Mark Ames
    Nov 24 2025
    Mark Ames of Radio War Nerd is on the program to tell us a little about the new book penned by his partner in podcast crime, John Dolan, titled They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War.
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    20 m
  • Bonus - Liberal Zionism After Gaza w/ David Klion (Preview)

    Bonus - Liberal Zionism After Gaza w/ David Klion (Preview)
    Nov 23 2025
    Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all of our bonus Danny and Derek speak with writer and editor David Klion about the collapse of the liberal Zionist project and how the moral and political implication of the Gaza genocide have reshaped American Jewish identity. They discuss how October 7 and Israel’s assault on Gaza forced a reckoning among liberals who once believed in the two-state promise; the fracturing of institutional life and why so many public figures have avoided accountability; the generational realignment in American Judaism; legacy news organizations managing and obscuring this shift; x and also Barry Weiss’s rise to CBS and what it tells us about the future of American media. Read David’s piece in The Nation, “To Those Who Have Just Awakened to the Horrors in Gaza.”
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    11 m
  • What Was Sarah Hurwitz Thinking? w/ Emily Tamkin (Preview)

    What Was Sarah Hurwitz Thinking? w/ Emily Tamkin (Preview)
    Nov 22 2025
    Subscribe now to listen to the full episode. Danny and Derek are joined by the writer ⁠Emily Tamkin⁠ to discuss Sarah Hurwitz’s comments on the Holocaust, education, and the Jewish people.
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    6 m
  • News - MBS White House Visit, US Pushes New Ukraine Deal, UN Votes on Gaza

    News - MBS White House Visit, US Pushes New Ukraine Deal, UN Votes on Gaza
    Nov 21 2025
    Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny and Derek are praying for Kim Kardashian to pass the bar. In this week’s news: Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia visits the White House (1:56); the U.S. pushes a new Ukraine peace deal (8:58); Israel continues killing people in Gaza (12:30), Palestinians’ shelters are failing in heavy rain (13:57), the UN votes on Trump’s Gaza plan (15:22), and Palestinians seeking relief are put on flights to South Africa, raising ethnic cleansing concerns (18:11); Israel continues to bomb and move borders in Lebanon and Syria (21:50); the U.S. and South Korea agree on a nuclear submarine deal (25:21); an attack on a church in Nigeria draws international attention (27:46); the DRC and M23 sign a new peace framework (29:53); an elections update for Chile (31:17) and Ecuador (33:03); Trump reopens a backchannel to Venezuela (34:47); and an update on Operation Southern Spear (38:14).
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    44 m