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NBN Episodes hosted by Bruce:
Journalism
October 28, 2020
Democracy Without Journalism?
Confronting the Misinformation Society
Victor Pickard
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
"Few freedoms in the United States are as cherished as freedom of the press." So begins Chapter One of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society (Oxford University Press, 2020) …
Journalism
October 31, 2017
As I Saw It
A Reporter's Intrepid Journey
Marvin Scott
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 veteran TV journalist gathered during …
Journalism
August 16, 2017
Pop Culture Goes to War
Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror
Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
Two professors from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada have published a book about how American popular culture reinforces militarism in the United States. In Pop Culture Goes to …
Journalism
June 27, 2017
The Voice of America
Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism
Mitchell Stephens
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
Mitchell Stephens's new book, The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism (St. Martins Press, 2017), could be described, in part, as an entertaining book …
Journalism
June 15, 2016
The Servant State
Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada
Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
Two Canadian political science professors contend that the grotesque inequities of the capitalist system feed hatred, nourish misogyny, promote chronic dispossession and wreak havoc on the environment. In their new …
Journalism
February 24, 2016
This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionary implications of climate change. In her new book …
Journalism
August 13, 2015
The Nation
A Biography
D. D. Guttenplan
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 founded in 1865 just months …
Journalism
June 20, 2015
Ithaca Diaries
Coming of Age in the 1960s
Anita M. Harris
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 Common Press, 2014), journalist …
Journalism
June 2, 2015
The Almanac
150 Years of the Nation (5)
Richard Kreitner, ed.
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 oldest magazine. Nation archivist Richard Kreitner is …
Journalism
May 22, 2015
The Almanac
150 Years of The Nation (4)
Richard Kreitner, ed.
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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-strip school of science fiction, Terry and …
Journalism
May 18, 2015
The Almanac
150 Years of The Nation (3)
Richard Kreitner, ed.
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 a daily blog called The Almanac …
Journalism
May 10, 2015
The Almanac
150 Years of The Nation (2)
Richard Kreitner, ed.
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
The Nation magazine is one of America's most distinguished journalistic enterprises featuring the writing and work of such notable people as Calvin Trillin, Noam Chomsky, Jessica Mitford, James Baldwin and …
Journalism
April 27, 2015
American Conspiracy Theories
Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
"Conspiracy theories are neither the vile excrescence of puny minds nor the telltale symptom of a sick society. They are the ineradicable stuff of politics."That's a quotation from American Conspiracy …
Journalism
April 15, 2015
The Almanac
150 Years of The Nation
Richard Kreitner, ed.
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
The Nation magazine is one of America's most distinguished journalistic enterprises featuring the writing and work of such notable people as Albert Einstein, Emma Goldman, Molly Ivins, I.F. Stone and …
Politics & Polemics
March 10, 2015
What I Learned About Politics
Inside the Rise-and Collapse-of Nova Scotia's NDP Government
Graham Steele
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
Political debate in western democracies such as in Canada, the U.S. and Britain has become empty theatre, full of rhetorical flourishes with little meaning for citizens, according to a new …
World Affairs
February 9, 2015
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Political Economy of American Empire
Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
Two Canadian socialist thinkers have published a new book on the successes and failures, the crises, contradictions and conflicts in present-day capitalism. In The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political …
Journalism
November 17, 2014
Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion (Second Edition)
Randal Marlin
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 Ethics of Persuasion …
Journalism
October 6, 2014
Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good
A Memoir and Manifesto
Heather Menzies
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 ancestral roots. In Reclaiming the …
Journalism
September 22, 2014
Constructing Neoliberalism
Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies
Jonathan Swarts
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
The new book, Constructing Neoliberalism: Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies (University of Toronto Press, 2013) shows how political elites in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada successfully introduced radically new …
Journalism
September 11, 2014
Equal As Citizens
The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea
Richard Starr
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
"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 later, Canada has 10 provinces …
Literature
August 19, 2014
Origins
Darryl Whetter
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
In his new book of poems, Origins (Palimpsest Press, 2012), the Canadian writer Darryl Whetter uses metaphor to excavate the links between pre-historic life, extinction, evolution and modern-day sex. In …
Journalism
August 5, 2014
The Living Beach
Life, Death and Politics where the Land Meets the Sea
Silver Donald Cameron
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
The acclaimed Canadian author Silver Donald Cameron writes that the idea for his newly reissued book, The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics where the Land Meets the Sea (Red …
Gender Studies
April 16, 2012
The Morning After
A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
Heather Munro Prescott
Hosted by
Bruce Wark
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 just abortion, called into …
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