Radicals in Conversation Podcast
1) Can a River Take Us to Court? Exploring the Rights of Nature
With Jessica den Outer. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be owned and exploited, for human gain. In recent decades, the tenor of conversation may have shifted towa...Show More
2) Did Ancient Pirates Invent Democracy?: Exploring Radical Antiquity
With Christopher Zeichmann. In his new book, Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings, Christopher Zeichmann takes us on a unique journey in search of anarch...Show More
3) Why Liberal Abundance is Bullsh*t
With Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell. Capitalism has created a world of bullsh*t abundance and artificial scarcity, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we d...Show More
4) Radical Friendship: Reimagining the World and Fighting the Far Right
With Laura C. Forster and Joel White. What draws people into political movements? And what sustains us, in the face of defeat, infiltration and state repression? For the authors of Friends in Common:...Show More
5) Empire, Slavery, and Reparations
With Paul Lashmar and Luke Daniels. In this episode we talk about the new book Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery, and the growing internationa...Show More
6) Fascist Yoga!
With Stewart Home. Legend of counterculture, Stewart Home, joins us on the podcast to talk about his new book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness. S...Show More
7) The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy
With Alana Lentin. In this episode we discuss the ways in which racial capitalism reproduces itself. Beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and moral panics, Alana Lentin shows how, from Aust...Show More
8) Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants
The USA locks up more migrants in its immigration detention facilities than any other country in the world. Already operating over capacity, the Trump administration has ramped up its campaign of immi...Show More
9) Democratic Living in Times of Fascism
With H. L. T. Quan and Dylan Rodríguez. This is the final installment of our three-part mini series, 'Beyond the Ballot Box', which explores some of the major political currents in US politics today. ...Show More
10) Tenant Unions Fighting the Housing Crisis
With Jacob Stringer. We are joined on the show by Jacob Stringer, a housing and social movements researcher and organiser, and the author of Renters Unite: How Tenant Unions Are Fighting the Housing C...Show More