A time-tunnel trip back to January: Jodi Dean on Trump and American fascism, and Quinn Slobodian, co-author of this article, on Querdenken, the eclectic German anti-mask movement that joins hippies and petty capitalists

(vacation-induced rebroadcast of a show that first ran in January)

photo: Jon Tyson via Unsplash

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Mia Jankowicz of the London office of Business Insider reports on Sherri Tenpenny, the antivaxxer who claimed before the Ohio legislature that covid shots make you magnetic. And business and economic historian Sanford Jacoby, author of Labor in the Age of Finance, looks back on labor’s alliance with Wall Street in mounting the shareholder revolution.

photo: Joshua Hoehne via Unsplash

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Sean Jacobs and Will Shoki of Africa Is a Country explain why South Africans rioted last month and what’s happened to the African National Congress over the decades. And the political economist Max Krahé, author of this report, explains why market mechanisms aren’t up to the climate crisis and some kind of central planning is necessary.

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A fundraiser, featuring Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, authors of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, an examination of how environmental ruin and social tension makes people sick.

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Robert Fatton, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, discusses the July 7 assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the president of Haiti, under extremely murky circumstances, and the long history that led up to it. Plus fundraising.

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