Claire Denis's transgressive masterpiece TROUBLE EVERY DAY (2001).
Leigh Cowart also joins to discuss masochism.
On the New Cold War with China—and more.
Evangelical Christianity is on trial in GOD'S NOT DEAD 2 (2016).
Teamsters from TDU discuss the historic contract fight.
Plus: Peter Turchin on why the US is heading for a smashup.
A prime relic of mid-2000s libertarian culture.
A short history of the modern Japanese left.
Plus: Edwin Ackerman on AMLO.
On the new book, A Spectre, Haunting.
When Tarantino went against the 2019-era cultural grain.
Plus Anatol Lieven on Prigozhin’s aborted uprising.
On the socialist imagination of a renowned artist and designer.
The anti-Communist kitsch of TETRIS (2023).
Plus: Jane Chung on the cult of homeownership.
From the Pentagon Papers to current geopolitics.
The mundane dystopia concealed beneath AI hype.
A quest to tackle every political comedy reaches THE CAMPAIGN (2012).
A rebroadcast from 2019.
Part two on petrocapitalism and the world system.