On this week’s show Aaron Bastani is joined by David Graeber author of ‘Debt: the First 5,000 Years’ as they discuss debt embedding it within the context of the Great Recession.

Speaker(s): Professor David Graeber | The proliferation of useless forms of employment in the professional-managerial sector has placed enormous pressure on the caring professions, leading to a major social conflagration. David Graeber (@davidgraeber) is Professor of Anthropology at the LSE and auth

Speaker(s): Dr David Graeber, Professor Craig Calhoun | From the earliest meetings for Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber felt that something was different from previous demonstrations. What was it about this particular movement that worked this time? And what can we now do to make our world more dem

Rabbi David Wolpe and Dr. Gabor Maté discuss the far-reaching impacts of the violence perpetrated on October 7th. On January 23, Rahel Bayar moderated "How Do We Get to Peace," a virtual discussion between Rabbi Wolpe and Dr. Maté that focused on the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza. Watch the full di

Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex ‘unicorns’ to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. This is Žižek’s attempt to elucidate the major political issues of the day from a truly radical left position. Institute for the Radical Imagination New York, USA