Micah speaks with historian Jon Wiener, coauthor with Mike Davis of the book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.
You can buy the book here: https://www.versobooks.<wbr />com/books/3164-set-the-night-<wbr />on-fire
And you can listen to Jon's excellent podcast Nation magazine podcast Start Making Sense here: https://www.<wbr />thenation.com/authors/start-<wbr />making-sense/
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Folge vom 12.10.2020The Vast Majority: The Night Is Still on Fire
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Folge vom 09.10.2020Dig: SCOTUS, Politics, and the LawDan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.Join a Dig book club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-clubSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
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Folge vom 09.10.2020Behind the News: Max Sawicky and Kelly GrotkeHost Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Max Sawicky, author of this report, on the postal service's problems and what could be done about them. Plus, Kelly Grotke on college endowments and selective austerity (janitors lose, portfolio managers win).
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Folge vom 08.10.2020A World to Win: The Crisis Before the Crisis w/ Rob DaviesThis week, Grace talks to Rob Davies, senior figure in the South African Communist Party and former South African Minister for Trade and Industry. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa and the rest of the Continent, the hegemony of the ANC over South African politics, and the challenges of developing an industrial strategy in a highly financialised, highly unequal, semi-perhipheral economy.