Check out my latest interview with authors of recent books. I spoke with Christy Thornton of Johns Hopkins University, author of the brand new book Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. She basically asks what happens if we look at the big global financial institutions of the 20th century from […]

Farley, Lemieux, and I do our own Super Bowl Shuffle and talk about the game, the Goff-Stafford trade, what the hell the Texans are doing, as well as take a detour into the ridiculousness of Major League Baseball electing no players to the Hall of Fame.

A few weeks ago Keith Phipps published a list at the Vulture of the 50 Best Westerns of all time. It will not surprise you that this list generated opinions. Erik, myself, and longterm friend of the blog Charles Dainoff digitally sat down to chew over the list, tackling questions such as how legitimate it […]

I had the great pleasure of talking to Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University (quite a title!) about her 2019 book Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War. This will be of great interest to many of you because it is […]

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Greg Weeks, a political scientist at UNC-Charlotte who specializes in Latin American politics, about the relationship between Trump and AMLO. We also ranged into questions of intra-Latin American politics, and of what US-Mexico relations will look like over the next four years or so.

Lemieux, Farley, and I got together for another football podcast, reviewing last week’s divisional games, discussing our predictions for Sunday, and eviscerating the idiocy and racism of football team owners as they hire mediocre white after mediocre white while Eric Bienemy withers on the vine and DeShaun Watson wants out of Houston for being completely […]

Paul, Scott, and myself got together this afternoon to talk about the events of January 6 and of the House of Representative’s very recent vote to impeach President Trump for a second time. We work through some of the strategic decisions that will face both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, including a discussion of […]

For my latest author podcast, I was very happy to talk to Mike Konczal, economist and frequent writer on economic justice issues, about his new book Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand, published just this week by The New Press. The book explores the history […]

Lemieux, Farley, and I ranted and raved about the wild card games and other various NFL happenings in the latest podcast. Going to be a fun weekend of football. We should also note that the number of services through which you can the podcast has expanded. Apparently you can listen at Stitcher! And also at […]

On the latest LGM podcast Chris Koski and I spoke about the early lessons from the 2020 election, including how the parties can model turnout and GOTV operations moving forward. We talk about whether and how polling is broken, and how much changing demographics will affect future outreach. Finally, we take a look at the […]