A Correction Podcast

A Correction Podcast episodes:

• 05.06.2024

  Delton Best of: Chen on The Carbon Coin (If you read The Ministry for the Future this episode is for you!)

  Delton Chen is a geo-hydrologist and civil engineer. Delton holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. Delton has 20 years of combined experience in groundwater management, environmental impact assessments, mining, geothermal energy...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Best of: Samuel Hughes on Ugly Buildings, Beautiful Cities and How to Build Better Suburbs

  Samuel Hughes is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Head of Research at the Office for Place within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. His education was primarily at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. At the...

  
• 02.24.2024

  Dennis O. Flynn on The World that Silver Created

  Dennis O. Flynn is the Alexander R. Heron Professor of Economics at the University of the Pacific. He has published since 1978 dozens of essays on global monetary history, fifteen of which have been reproduced in World Silver and Monetary...

  
• 01.20.2024

  Alberto Toscano on Israeli Politics

  Alberto Toscano is Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is also Professor of Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and...

  
• 12.28.2023

  Best of: Paolo Tedesco on How Marx Understood the Middle Ages (and what he may have gotten wrong)

  Paolo Tedesco teaches history at the University of Tübingen. His main research interests include the social and economic history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, comparative agrarian history, the fate of the peasantry across different types of societies,...

  
• 12.03.2023

  Mitty Owens on Cuba, Culture and Character Contra Capitalismo

  Millard "Mitty" Owens is the Co-Director of The People's Solar Energy Fund. Mitty's thirty year public service career includes community development finance, philanthropy, arts and social change, and organizational and leadership development. Career highlights include the Ford Foundation (program officer...

  
• 11.06.2023

  Abraham L. Newman on the Plumbing and Infrastructure of US Empire

  Abraham L. Newman is professor of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. His research focuses on the politics generated by globalization and...

  
• 10.19.2023

  Caroline Cornier on Economic Sovereignty in Africa

  Caroline Cornier has studied Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was a lecturer at the Department of Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel between December 2021 and September 2022...

  
• 10.17.2023

  Best of: Global Social Unrest But No Revolution: Why?

  We discuss why we need two internationales and a World Party with Sahan Savas Karatasli. Sahan Savas Karatasli is a global and macro-historical sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has been extensively studying and writing on the...

  
• 10.04.2023

  Best of: James Robinson on the Origins of the Industrial Revolution

  James Robinson is an economist and political scientist. He is currently the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Robinson has conducted influential research...

  
• 09.25.2023

  Best of: Rajesh Ramachandran on the Use of the Vernacular and the Protestant Reformation

  Rajesh Ramachandran is a postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of economics at Heidelberg University. He completed his doctoral studies in economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. He has have previously held positions at Goethe University, as well...

  
• 09.11.2023

  Best of: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Explained. (I finally understand.)

  We speak with Gerald Epstein about MMT. Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Epstein has written articles on numerous topics including financial...

  
• 08.26.2023

  Margot Luftig Interviews Lev Moscow about Media, Technology and Teaching

  This is a very special episode. Margot was Lev’s student and is now attending Northwestern University. She is the host of the excellent podcast Not An Expert: A Teen's Take On Life, Identity, and Politics. Margot has generously allowed us...

  
• 08.14.2023

  Best of: Peter Hudis on How Rosa Luxemburg Can Help Us Understand Racial Capitalism

  Peter Hudis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College and author of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012) and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto, 2015). He edited The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly...

  
• 07.31.2023

  Best of: Lauren Sandler on Homelessness

  Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is the bestselling This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home, a work narrative nonfiction about a young homeless mother in New...

  
• 07.20.2023

  Best of: Arun Kumar on Philanthrocapitalism

  Arun Kumar is a Lecturer in International Management at the University of York.Previously trained in architecture and development management, he worked for a number of years as an independent researcher and consultant/advisor with leading aid agencies, NGOs, independent research centres,...

  
• 07.01.2023

  Timothy Weaver on Opportunity Zones (and how we can do better)

  Timothy Weaver is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany (SUNY) and author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom. ...

  
• 06.28.2023

  Best of: Fiori Berhane on the Mediterranean Sea as A Nowhere Space

  We talk with Fiori Berhane about migration. Fiori Berhane broadly researches the ways in which African refugees challenge discursive and legal-juridical frameworks that undergird the Central Mediterranean crossing. In particular, she studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee activists engage...

  
• 06.20.2023

  Best of: Aviva Chomsky on Biden's Central American Plan

  Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (April 2021). ...

  
• 06.08.2023

  Best of: Nathan Nunn on The Roots of Global Inequality

  We speak with Nathan Nunn about the historical origins of inequality. Nathan Nunn is Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Nunn’s primary research interests are in political economy, economic history, economic development, cultural economics, and international trade....

  
• 05.25.2023

  Joseph Margulies Has a Plan to Stop Gentrification

  Joseph Margulies is Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University. He was Counsel of Record in Rasul v. Bush (2004), involving detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, and in Geren v. Omar and Munaf v. Geren (2008), involving...

  
• 05.02.2023

  Best Of: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on Racial Capitalism

  This episode was originally released in September 2020.Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He completed his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles. Before that, he completed BAs in Philosophy and Political Science at Indiana...

  
• 04.03.2023

  Aabid Firdausi on the five core questions of political economy

  Aabid Firdausi is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. ...

  
• 03.14.2023

  Pablo Pryluka on Juan Peron and The Legacy of Peronism

  Pablo Pryluka is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. Prior to Princeton, he did his undergraduate studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and earned a master’s in History at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He has received...

  
• 02.22.2023

  Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo on Ghana's Financial Crisis

  Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo is a PhD candidate and junior fellow at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth. He is currently completing his dissertation on the political economy of money and finance in postcolonial Ghana. ...

  
• 02.08.2023

  Lev Moscow and Richard Miller On the Possibilities of ChatGPT and the Future of Education

  Lev has taught International Political Economy at The Beacon School since 2005. He is also the host of A Correction Podcast. This interview is from a recent episode of our sister-podcast: Ethical SchoolsRichard retired after 28 years of teaching history...

  
• 01.09.2023

  Zeyad el Nabolsy on Dependency Theory, Culture and the Philosopher Paulin J. Hountondji

  Zeyad el Nabolsy is an Egyptian PhD student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, working on African philosophy of culture, African Marxism, and the philosophy of science and modern African intellectual history. ...

  
• 12.08.2022

  Alberto Toscano on the 100th Anniversary of the March on Rome and the Meaning of Fascism Today

  Alberto Toscano is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser...

  
• 11.19.2022

  Yusuf Serunkuma on the Election Trap in Africa

  Yusuf Serunkuma is a columnist in Uganda’s newspapers, scholar and a playwright. In 2014, Fountain Publishers published his first play, The Snake Farmers which was received with critical acclaim in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. He is also a scholar and...

  
• 11.05.2022

  Barry Eidlin on the Life and Work of Mike Davis

  Barry Eidlin is an associate professor of sociology at McGill University and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada. ...

  
• 10.20.2022

  David and Jon Moscow on How Food Really Makes it Onto Your Plate

  David Moscow is the creator, executive producer, and host of From Scratch. David made his feature film debut at age thirteen in Big, starring as the young Tom Hanks; soon after, he starred with Christian Bale in Newsies. He has...

  
• 09.28.2022

  Sean T. Byrnes on Bretton Woods, the Group of 77 and the Rise of the New American Right

  Sean T. Byrnes is a writer, teacher, and historian. His work explores issues related to US politics, international relations, and global economic inequality. The author of Disunited Nations: US Foreign Policy, Anti-Americanism, and the Rise of the New Right (LSU,...

  
• 09.14.2022

  Anders Anderson on the Economics of E-Bikes

  Anders Anderson is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Swedish House of Finance. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2004 at the Stockholm School of Economics. He held post-doctoral positions at the...

  
• 08.30.2022

  Rosa Vasilaki on Migration Politics in Greece

  Rosa Vasilaki is an Athens-based sociologist and historian. She holds a PhD in history from Paris’s Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a PhD in sociology from the University of Bristol. ...

  
• 08.09.2022

  Srishti Yadav on the Agrarian Question in India

  Dr. Srishti Yadav is an Instructor for the Economics & Society stream in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. She has a PhD in Economics from The New School in New York. Her dissertation research focuses on...

  
• 07.28.2022

  Gediminas Lesutis on The Politics of Precarity in Mozambique

  Gediminas Lesutis works at the intersection of global politics, human geography, and critical theory. In 2018, he completed a PhD in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. This was followed by a 3.5-year research fellowship in Geography at the...

  
• 07.12.2022

  Teddy Wayne on The Great Man Theory

  Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Great Man Theory (July 12, 2022), Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship...

  
• 06.27.2022

  Elle Hardy on How Pentecostalism Became the Fastest Growing Religion on Earth

  Elle Hardy is an Australian-born journalist usually based between the UK and US. She has reported extensively on stories from the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places. Credits include The Times, GQ, The Guardian, The Outline,...

  
• 06.14.2022

  Timothy Frye on Understanding Russia Through Data (and not Putinology)

  Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University. Professor Frye received a BA in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College, an MIA from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and a...

  
• 06.03.2022

  Andrea Terzi on Central Banking and Inflation

  Andrea Terzi is Professor of Economics at Franklin University Switzerland and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. He has taught at Rutgers University, the Institute for International Studies in Florence, the European College of...

  
• 05.26.2022

  Paolo Tedesco on How Marx Understood the Middle Ages (and what he may have gotten wrong)

  Paolo Tedesco teaches history at the University of Tübingen. His main research interests include the social and economic history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, comparative agrarian history, the fate of the peasantry across different types of societies,...

  
• 05.16.2022

  Fiori S. Berhane on the End of Asylum

  Fiori Berhane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at USC. Fiori Berhane broadly researches the ways in which African refugees challenge discursive and legal-juridical frameworks that undergird the Central Mediterranean crossing. In particular, she studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee...

  
• 05.09.2022

  Alex Ruch on why Democrats and Republicans Buy Different Brands of Jeans (or the Spread of Polarization and Lifestyle Politics)

  Alex Ruch is a Machine Learning Engineer II at Spotify. Previously, he worked as a ML Research Engineer at Graphika, Inc. (featured on Built In!) and was a Sage Fellow PhD at Cornell University in the Departments of Sociology and...

  
• 05.06.2022

  Dr. Jonathan Pugh on Islands, the Anthropocene and Why There Will Still be Islands At the End of the World

  Dr. Jonathan Pugh is Reader in Island Studies, Department of Geography, Newcastle University, UK. He has more than 70 publications and is particularly noted for his work on the ‘relational’ and ‘archipelagic’ turns in island studies, disrupting the figure of...

  
• 04.30.2022

  Tamas Gerőcs on the War in Ukraine and The New "Scramble For Africa"

  Tamas Gerocs is a PhD candidate in sociology at Binghamton University. He is also a research fellow at the Institute of World Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research field is Eastern European semi-peripheries with a special regard...

  
• 04.21.2022

  James Henderson on The Energy Transition

  Dr James Henderson is Director the Energy Transition Research Initiative and is Chairman of the Gas Research Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) from 2016, he has been writing for and working with the Institute since 2010....

  
• 04.17.2022

  Lucia Pradella on Imperialism and Unfree Labor in the Mediterranean

  Lucia Pradella studied Philosophy, Social Sciences and Migration Studies at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She collaborated with the project of historical-critical edition of Marx’s and Engels’s complete works at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy...

  
• 04.03.2022

  James K. Galbraith on the Euro Crisis, Greece and Central Bank Sanctions

  James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. He was executive director of the...

  
• 03.27.2022

  Amelia Winger-Bearskin on the Metaverse, DAOS, Gaming, NFTs and Indigenous Culture

  Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) origin who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our communities and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial...

  
• 03.21.2022

  Samuel Hughes on Ugly Buildings, Beautiful Cities and How to Build Better Suburbs

  Samuel Hughes is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Head of Research at the Office for Place within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. His education was primarily at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. At the...