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About Bruce Wark
NBN Episodes hosted by Bruce:
October 28, 2020
Democracy Without Journalism?
"Few freedoms in the United States are as cherished as freedom of the press." So begins Chapter One of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the …
October 31, 2017
As I Saw It
Marvin Scott's new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter's Intrepid Journey (Beaufort Books, 2017) tells 26 stories of memorable people and events that the ve…
August 16, 2017
Pop Culture Goes to War
Two professors from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada have published a book about how American popular culture reinforces militarism i…
June 27, 2017
The Voice of America
Mitchell Stephens's new book, The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism (St. Martins Press, 2017), could be des…
June 15, 2016
The Servant State
Two Canadian political science professors contend that the grotesque inequities of the capitalist system feed hatred, nourish misogyny, promote chroni…
February 24, 2016
This Changes Everything
The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionar…
August 13, 2015
The Nation
The Nation magazine turned 150 this year, a striking achievement for a publication that is firmly on the left of the political spectrum. It was founde…
June 20, 2015
Ithaca Diaries
Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll. That's the stereotypical view of the 1960s. But in her memoir, Ithaca Diaries, Coming of Age in the 1960s (Cambridge Comm…
June 2, 2015
The Almanac
Helen Keller, Franz Kafka and Silent Cal Coolidge appear in this week's Almanac, a blog to celebrate the 150thanniversary of The Nation, America's old…
May 22, 2015
The Almanac
When Star Wars opened in 1977, Robert Hatch, film reviewer for The Nation magazine, wrote that it "belongs in the sub-basement, or interstellar comic-…
May 18, 2015
The Almanac
The Nation magazine, a beacon of the cultural and political left, is celebrating 150 years of publishing. As part of its celebration, it's publishing …
May 10, 2015
The Almanac
The Nation magazine is one of America's most distinguished journalistic enterprises featuring the writing and work of such notable people as Calvin Tr…
April 27, 2015
American Conspiracy Theories
"Conspiracy theories are neither the vile excrescence of puny minds nor the telltale symptom of a sick society. They are the ineradicable stuff of pol…
April 15, 2015
The Almanac
The Nation magazine is one of America's most distinguished journalistic enterprises featuring the writing and work of such notable people as Albert Ei…
March 10, 2015
What I Learned About Politics
Political debate in western democracies such as in Canada, the U.S. and Britain has become empty theatre, full of rhetorical flourishes with little me…
February 9, 2015
The Making of Global Capitalism
Two Canadian socialist thinkers have published a new book on the successes and failures, the crises, contradictions and conflicts in present-day capit…
November 17, 2014
Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion (Second Edition)
It's been 100 years since the start of the First World War, a conflict that cost millions of lives. In his recently revised book, Propaganda and the E…
October 6, 2014
Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good
The Canadian author and scholar, Heather Menzies, has written a book about the journey she took to the highlands of Scotland in search of her ancestra…
September 22, 2014
Constructing Neoliberalism
The new book, Constructing Neoliberalism: Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies (University of Toronto Press, 2013) shows how politica…
September 11, 2014
Equal As Citizens
"We are not half a dozen provinces. We are one great Dominion," Canada's first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald proudly declared. More than a century…
August 19, 2014
Origins
In his new book of poems, Origins (Palimpsest Press, 2012), the Canadian writer Darryl Whetter uses metaphor to excavate the links between pre-histori…
August 5, 2014
The Living Beach
The acclaimed Canadian author Silver Donald Cameron writes that the idea for his newly reissued book, The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics where…
April 16, 2012
The Morning After
What would a Presidential campaign be without a good dose of reproductive politics? To be sure, many of us are surprised to see contraception, and not…