A Correction Podcast

This week we speak with Luke Savage about Beto O’Rourke. Luke Savage is a Staff Writer at Jacobin Magazine. He writes about Canadian and international politics, religion, labor issues, philosophy, and the history of the democratic left. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Canadaland, Maisonneuve, the New Statesman, The Tyee, Current Affairs, and others. He also co-hosts a weekly podcast about current events agitprop cinema.

If you missed our episode on Biden you can find it here: First as tragedy, then as farce: Joe Biden in 2020?

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We talk with Elena Herminia Guzman about the increase in racial profiling of people of Haitian-descent in the Dominican Republic. Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Indigenous Boricua filmmaker, educator, and anthropologist from New York City. Her work broadly looks at issues of representation in the African/Black Diaspora. Her artistic work and research also extend to Haiti and the Dominican Republic where she conducted fieldwork and has a series of visual projects with a focus on narrative performance such as Carnival and the Lenten festivals of Rara. She is a co-founder of Ethnocine Collective, a feminist filmmaking collective that is committed to a feminist and decolonial lens that pushes the boundaries of non-fiction film. 

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We talk with Tom Perrin about how to find meaning in college through “vocational education.” Tom Perrin is Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost at Huntingdon College. His book, The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction, was published in 2015, and his work has also appeared in American Literature, NOVEL, and the Times Literary Supplement.

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We speak with LAUREN KAORI GURLEY about the strikes in Matamoros. Since January, 50,000 workers have gone off the job and the prospects for the labor movement are the best in a generation. We talk about what has led to this moment and what we might expect going forward. Lauren Kaori Gurley is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. She previously served as web editor at the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). Her reporting on labor, immigration, poverty, and the U.S.-Mexico border has been published in CityLab, In These Times, NPR's Latino USA, The American Prospect, and ProPublica.

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We speak with Lyle Jeremy Rubin about AIPAC, empire, and Ilhan Omar. In the early 2000s, Lyle Jeremy Rubin was an intern at AIPAC and was on the board as a campus representative. He is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Rochester and is writing his dissertation on the reception of the political economist Adam Smith’s thought in the United States.

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We speak with Rebecca Boger about Disaster Capitalism in Barbuda. Professor Boger has a background in geospatial technologies, marine science, and science education. At Brooklyn College, she teaches geospatial technologies and works with anthropologists and archaeologists in Barbuda on socio-ecological resilience research, community based mapping, and environmental modeling.

Satellite images of Antigua and Barbuda from August 21, 2017, and September 8, 2017, illustrating the damage caused by Hurricane Irma to Barbuda

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We talk with Gerald Horne about his book, “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean.” Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry.

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We talk with Dan La Botz about the state of the Democratic Socialists of America two years after the “Bernie Bump.” Dan La Botz is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico.

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We called Arthur MacEwan to find out the answer. Professor MacEwan taught at UMass Boston from 1975 to 2008 and is now professor emeritus in the Department of Economics. His range of courses included those on economic development, macroeconomics, the economics of education, Latin America, economic history and Marxist economics.

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We talk with Monica Prasad about taxes in Sweden. Sweden has lower poverty rates, less inequality and higher mobility than the U.S. How do they do it? The answer is not what you expect. Monica Prasad is a professor of sociology and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and is the author, most recently, of “Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution.”

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