Behind the News – May 15, 2025
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Behind the News
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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Behind the News – May 8, 2025
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Behind the News – May 1, 2025
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Behind the News – April 24, 2025
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Hayek’s bastards: the second, cruder generation of neoliberals
Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards, talks about the IQ- and race-obsessed goldbugs of second generation neoliberalism
Financiers and universities, approaches to the climate crisis
Charlie Eaton and Alina Gibadulina on the increasing prominence of hedge fund and private equity titans on elite university boards (paper here) • Malcolm Harris, author of What’s Left, on a trio of political approaches to the climate crisis
Tariff extravaganza: the UAW’s view, a critical view
Jason Wade of the UAW explains the union’s endorsement of Trump’s auto tariffs • Sam Gindin, author of this article and former long-time adviser to what used to be known as the Canadian Autoworkers Union, on what issues the tariff controversy obscures
Trump and the courts, class and politics, hipster nihilism
Samuel Moyn on Trump and the courts • Chris Maisano, author of this article, on class and politics • Evgenia Kovda on hipster nihilism (article here)
Professional class liberalism
Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer, editors of Mastery and Drift, on professional class liberalism • a brief reprise of a 2019 interview with Gabriel Winant on the PMC
Marx’s ethics, and what did the BLM protests do to police budgets?
Vanessa Wills, author of Marx’s Ethical Vision, on the morality behind Marxian “science” • Mathis Ebbinghaus on the effects of the summer 2020 anti-cop protests on police budgets (paper here)