Earlier this week, there was a massive explosion at a shipping port in Beirut, leaving an estimated 150 dead, 80 missing, 5,000 injured, and 300,000 homeless. “To say we’re going through a catastrophe would be an understatement,” says Rania Masri, a university lecturer and political activist living in Beirut. Today, she joins us to put […]
The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
Historian Susan Reverby recently published a new book, Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman, which offers a complex portrait of a doctor who was radicalized in the 1960s and joined a clandestine struggle for change, was imprisoned for nearly a decade, battled cancer several times over, and ended his life of […]
“People Fight Where They Are”: Riots Now and Through Time
Today on the show, Allen spends the hour putting the summer’s street protests in historical context by looking at the political valence of riots over time with Joshua Clover, author of Riot. Strike. Riot. Among other things, they talk about reclaiming the word “riot” as a response to state violence, the difference between strikes (the […]
What We Did In Bed: A Horizontal History
We think of our beds, and our bedrooms, as the most intimate, personal part of our house. The bedroom is the room that is closed off if we have guests in our house, and inviting someone into your bedroom has certain… connotations. But it hasn’t always been thus. Throughout human history, beds were often more […]
The Intertwined Histories of Policing, Private Property, and Capitalis...
Abolishing the police requires abolishing capitalism, argues historian Peter Linebaugh. Today, he joins Allen on the program to discuss the origins of policing as an institution in the eighteenth century; the relationship between policing, private property, and wealth; and the intertwined histories of racial capitalism and state violence. Peter Linebaugh is a historian who has […]
A Virus in the Social Body with David McNally
Today on the show, Allen hosts a wide-ranging conversation with historian David McNally about the interlocking crises of the pandemic, economic recession, and racial injustice; the “social virus” being revealed by the pandemic; and the violence of money and the capitalist global order. David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the […]
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