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Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 15min
Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo
Immigration lawyer Daniel Melo on his article "The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies" for Black Agenda Report.
https://blackagendareport.com/capitalist-imperative-driving-cruel-and-bipartisan-us-migration-policies

Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 24min
Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes
Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege.
https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/

Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 16min
On prison education / Daniel Fernandez
Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article "The Classroom and the Cell" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez

Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 25min
Race and space in America / Elijah Anderson
Sociologist Elijah Anderson on his book "Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo119245209.html

Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 24min
Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr
Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 21min
Maritime insurers and the US founding / Hannah Farber
Historian Hannah Farber on her book "Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding" from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663630/underwriters-of-the-united-states/

Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 9min
Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson
Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist.
https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/

Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 25min
The state, the unhoused and performative productivity / Deyanira Nevárez Martínez
Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war.
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/

Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 22min
Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne Curry
Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize

Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 18min
Neoliberalism and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally / Catherine McNicol Stock
Historian Catherine McNicol Stock on her article “Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism" for OSU Origins.
https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/read/south-dakota-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-neoliberalism


