Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad Podcast
1) Epstein and The Thrill of Domination
This week on Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad discusses how the saga of the release of the Epstein files is producing a "falling out among the thieves" in the current administration and the pol...Show More
2) The Violent Crimes of Lost, Angry Men
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores how rape and mass murder become some men's reactions to their reduced status as providers for dependent women and children. Men who ...Show More
3) Today's Family Structure Extolled and Endangered
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores the repressed history of the family structure we know today. It explores the forces that laud the family unit, and those that endang...Show More
4) The State of Women in the U.S. in 2025
Women in the U.S. are under political, economic, social, and reproductive siege. The rights we fought for, like abortion rights, are now fully available in only nine states. The Trump regime has attac...Show More
5) If Children Are Our Future, Americans Are out of Luck
The UN’s latest assessment of children in the developed world puts children in the U.S. at the bottom in intellectual achievement, physical health, mental health, and basic well-being. America’s child...Show More
6) Labors of Love
Women labor intensively and extensively to create and maintain human life. Women's labor in Creating and raising children, establishing order and cleanliness, providing emotional care for our families...Show More
7) A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern was the Socialist Labor Party Prime Minister of New Zealand for 8 years. She led with a politics of empathy, delivering her nation from COVID with just 25 deaths. In a horrific white na...Show More
8) Epstein — A Marriage of Capitalist Corruption and Misogyny
Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in New York in 2019, was also accused of sexually assaulting underage gi...Show More
9) Social Reproduction Theory Illuminates the Issues of Our Time
There has been an extensive study of workers and the commodities they produce. When it comes to who produces those workers, or who produces people, gives birth to them, raises them, and socializes the...Show More
10) Out With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani’s Win is for All
Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in the Democratic primary for New York City’s mayor has shaken up the old establishment and is becoming a symbol of progress and real, meaningful change for younger gen...Show More