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NBN Episodes hosted by Bruce:

Victor Pickard, "Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society" (Oxford UP, 2020)

October 28, 2020

Democracy Without Journalism?

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 …

Marvin Scott, "As I Saw It: A Reporter's Intrepid Journey" (Beaufort Books, 2017)

October 31, 2017

As I Saw It

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 ve…

Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, "Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror" (Lexington Books, 2010)

August 16, 2017

Pop Culture Goes to War

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 i…

Mitchell Stephens, "The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism" (St. Martin's, 2017)

June 27, 2017

The Voice of America

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 des…

Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman, "The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada" (Fernwood, 2015)

June 15, 2016

The Servant State

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 chroni…

Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate" (Simon and Schuster, 2014)

February 24, 2016

This Changes Everything

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 revolutionar…

D. D. Guttenplan, "The Nation: A Biography" (The Nation Co., 2015)

August 13, 2015

The Nation

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 founde…

Anita M. Harris, "Ithaca Diaries: Coming of Age in the 1960s" (Cambridge Common Press, 2014)

June 20, 2015

Ithaca Diaries

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 Comm…

Richard Kreitner, "The Almanac: 150 Years of The Nation (5)"

June 2, 2015

The Almanac

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 old…

Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac (4)

May 22, 2015

The Almanac

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-…

Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac (3)

May 18, 2015

The Almanac

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 …

Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac (2)

May 10, 2015

The Almanac

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 Tr…

Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, "American Conspiracy Theories" (Oxford UP, 2014)

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 pol…

Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac

April 15, 2015

The Almanac

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 Ei…

Graham Steele, "What I Learned About Politics" (Nimbus, 2014)

March 10, 2015

What I Learned About Politics

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 me…

Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch, "The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire" (Verso, 2013)

February 9, 2015

The Making of Global Capitalism

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 capit…

Randal Marlin, "Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion" (Broadview Press, 2013)

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 E…

Heather Menzies, "Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good: A Memoir and Manifesto" (New Society Publishers, 2014)

October 6, 2014

Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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 ancestra…

Jonathan Swarts, "Constructing Neoliberalism: Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies" (U Toronto Press, 2013)

September 22, 2014

Constructing Neoliberalism

Jonathan Swarts
Hosted by Bruce Wark

The new book, Constructing Neoliberalism: Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies (University of Toronto Press, 2013) shows how politica…

Richard Starr, "Equal As Citizens: The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea" (Formac, 2014)

September 11, 2014

Equal As Citizens

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…

Darryl Whetter, "Origins" (Palimpsest Press, 2012)

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-histori…

Silver Donald Cameron, "The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics where the Land Meets the Sea" (Red Deer Press, 2014)

August 5, 2014

The Living Beach

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…

Heather Munro Prescott, "The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2011)

April 16, 2012

The Morning After

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…