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Darts & Letters
August 10, 2022
The Colonial Lens
Analyzing Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Colonialism in Academia
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Gordon Katic
Scholars want to decolonize everything, and universities say they are doing the hard work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But is anything really being done, or is it all for …
Politics & Polemics
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Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
Politics & Polemics
August 10, 2022
Paths of Dissent
Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen
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Caleb Zakarin
Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and retired army officer Danny A. Sjursen, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2022) collects provocative …
Darts & Letters
August 9, 2022
Letters from Herzl
Settler Colonialism at work in Palestine
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Gordon Katic
Today’s episode originally aired in May of 2021, while violence was erupting all along the Gaza Strip. Israeli airstrikes had left over 200 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis dead. It …
Critical Theory
August 8, 2022
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice
Nasar Meer
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Dave O'Brien
Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of …
Darts & Letters
August 8, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob
The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
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Gordon Katic
This week, we’re showcasing some of our favourite past episodes of Darts and Letters themed around “Activism & Academia”. Today’s episode originally aired a little earlier this summer. In the …
Politics & Polemics
August 3, 2022
Goliath
The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
Matt Stoller
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Caleb Zakarin
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time …
Darts & Letters
August 3, 2022
The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed
The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers
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Gordon Katic
It was billed as “the biggest event in the history of the terminally online.” A debate: socialism vs. capitalism. On your left side, the esteemed Marxist economist Richard Wolff. On …
Darts & Letters
August 2, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes
Toward a Democratic Internet
Ben Tarnoff
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Gordon Katic
Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does one company …
Gender Studies
July 29, 2022
Sex Is as Sex Does
Governing Transgender Identity
Paisley Currah
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Sohini Chatterjee
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find …
African American Studies
July 29, 2022
Insurrection
Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
Hawa Allan
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Brittney Edmonds
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became …
Darts & Letters
July 29, 2022
The Science Wars
Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
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Gordon Katic
Welcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited …
Political Science
July 28, 2022
Ugly Freedoms
Elisabeth R. Anker
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Lilly Goren
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could neither be taken nor granted, a sacred concept upon …
Anthropology
July 27, 2022
After The Apocalypse
Finding Hope in Organizing
Monika Kostera
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Joan Matamoros
Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. Monika Kostera's book After The Apocalypse: Finding Hope in Organizing (John Hunt, 2020) takes the apocalypse as …
Historical Materialism
July 27, 2022
Automation and Autonomy
Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry
James Steinhoff
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Reuben Niewenhuis
Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial …
Darts & Letters
July 27, 2022
Koch Block My Campus
How Big Money Corrupts Academia
James Turk
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Gordon Katic
Why is so much right-wing money being funnelled at such a furious pace into universities across the US? Libertarian-minded billionaires like the Kochs and their partners have funded scholars and …
Education
July 27, 2022
Safe Enough Spaces
A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
Michael S. Roth
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Caleb Zakarin
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out …
Darts & Letters
July 26, 2022
The Grift of Meritocracy
All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
Catherine Liu
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Gordon Katic
Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do to get ahead or to …
The Future of Higher Education
July 22, 2022
The Real World of College
What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner
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Galina Limorenko
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,00 …
Film
July 20, 2022
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg
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Galina Limorenko
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg's edited volume Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (MIT Press, 2022) offers intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction film- and videomaking by and about women …
Darts & Letters
July 19, 2022
Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania
American Politics and Pro Wrestling
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Gordon Katic
Darts and Letters is a show about the politics of ideas, and this week we’re searching for progressive politics in strange places… such as pro-wrestling.There have been 37 Wrestlemanias. That’s …
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