In 1981, a group of conservatives met and formed a coalition they called the Council for National Policy whose membership was secret. Since then, the Council has exerted enormous influence on American politics and the information wars up to the present day. For this episode, Esty speaks with journalist Anne Nelson about her new book, […]
Holiday Special: 2019 Highlight Reel
For today’s special end-of-year holiday edition, we present some highlights from interviews we’ve hosted this year featuring short segments from our entire lineup, Monday through Friday. We start the hour with Monday host Patty Peltekos, who earlier this year interviewed tech journalist Kashmir Hill about her research for the award-winning piece “The House that Spied […]
Split Show: Uranium Mining and Medical Cannabis
“We have to start looking at water as a living entity, a living being, and put it on the endangered species list forever,” says activist and Lakota member Carla Rae Marshall. For today’s first segment, we hear her firsthand account of the tribal protests against uranium mining in South Dakota. For the rest of the […]
Looking at Global Politics with Leo Panitch
In celebration of WORT’s 44th birthday, we spend the hour with friend of the show and political scientist Leo Panitch to get his take on Brexit and class politics in England, Zionism, the labor movement, and more. He also previews his article “Class Politics, Socialist Policies, Capitalist Constraints” from the forthcoming issue of The Socialist […]
Conversations about Wild Horses and Black Software
The BLM wants to get rid of wild horses on public land, and American Wild Horse Campaign is suing them. For the first part of the show, Esty talks with Suzanne Roy about the rounding up the horses. Suzanne is the executive director of AWHC. In the second half of the show, we talk with […]
The Political and Cultural Power of Comedy with Hari Kondabolu
They say laughter is the best medicine—and if that’s true, stand-up comic Hari Kondabolu is here to heal a sick society. Today, he joins Esty in the studio for a wide-ranging conversation about the political and cultural significance of comedy. They talk about when it’s okay to joke about sensitive topics, what it means to […]
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