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Degrowth & Its Critics #4 – Kōhei Saitō
Kōhei Saitō is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. His book, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, was published in 2020, with the first English edition appearing in 2024. In it, Saitō draws primarily on Marx’s later work … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #3 – Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel is Professor of Political Science & Public Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His 2020 book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, provides a succinct history of capitalism, an account of its impacts on … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #2 – Jason W. Moore et al
Jason W. Moore is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton, where he coordinates the World-Ecology Research Collective. His 2016 volume, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, features essays on how the climate crisis ought to be … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #1 – McNeill and Engelke
John R. McNeill is Distinguished University Professor of History and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Peter Engelke is Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Snowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In their 2014 book, The Great Acceleration: A History of … Continue reading
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The Enchantments of Trumpism
Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University. His book, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, argues that capitalist imperatives have superseded those of Christianity over time. The following was presented as part … Continue reading
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The Devil You Think You Know
Whitney Phillips is Associate Professor of Information Politics and Media Ethics at the University of Oregon, and Mark Brockway is Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. Their book, The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, … Continue reading
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Imagined Communities
Edward Bellamy was an American socialist author, activist, and journalist who wrote six novels in the second half of the nineteenth century. His most famous work, Looking Backward 2000-1887, inspired the formation of “Nationalist Clubs” throughout the country, each dedicated … Continue reading
Paradise & Pragmatism
Chris Jennings is an historian and writer living in Northern California. His book, Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, documents the experiences of five distinct and but related attempts at American communism around the middle of the nineteenth century. … Continue reading
End Time and Time Again
Dorian Lynskey is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs from Billie Holiday to Green Day and The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984. His latest, Everything Must Go: The Stories We … Continue reading
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Started on the Margin Now We’re Here
Matthew Dallek is Professor of Political Management at George Washington University. In his most recent book, he identifies the John Birch Society as the vanguard of an insurgent right-wing extremism in American politics. Known for their early embrace of conspiracy … Continue reading
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Nostalgia for a Tragic Past
Steven Hahn is Professor of History at New York University. His previous books, The Roots of Southern Populism, A Nation Under Our Feet, and A Nation Without Borders, have won many prestigious awards. In his latest, Hahn shows how American … Continue reading
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The Sexual Revelation
Benjamin E. Park is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. His books, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier and American Zion, provide a comprehensive view of Mormonism from … Continue reading
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Conservatives or Radicals or Something Else Entirely
Nicole Hemmer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She and I discussed her first book back in 2016. Her second book, Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s, resituates the Republican Party’s sharp rightward … Continue reading
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From Color Line to Colorblind
J. Russell Hawkins is Professor of History at Indiana Wesleyan University. Jesse Curtis is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University. Each is the author of a newish book about white evangelicals and colorblind rhetoric in the second half of … Continue reading
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Conservative Christians and Climate Change
Neall W. Pogue is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Robin Globus Veldman is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. James Morton Turner is Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College, … Continue reading
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