Safe for Democracy

Well, my face isn’t totally unstuffed-up yet, but I think the nasal quality has dropped out enough to record, and I want my shows to hit the top of the week again. Check out our Patreon! Talk to me on Twitter! This is the Isaiah Berlin essay And this right here is the last chapter … Continue reading SFD Short—Maintenance →

I’m sick, basically, and my voice is gross. Show’ll be out as soon as I can speak again.

We’re talking about capitalism, and specifically the ways in which unrestrained, industrialized, late-stage capitalism like ours works to destroy, reconstitute and commodify widely-available goods, usually in such a way as to create a population that is so repressable, the state and its corporate partners don’t even need to repress it. Big ask for one show. … Continue reading SFD Short—Land and Food and Capitalism →

I have a whole new show all written up but between family stuff and, well, more family stuff, I haven’t been able to find a time to actually record and edit it here in Tennessee. Tomorrow, though, I’m on a plane, and I’ll be into Guadalajara and back to my desk by 5am EST on … Continue reading SFD Short—Trickledown →

It’s pretty straightforward on this one; October’s news show on Corruption just in time for December. Enjoy folks. Patreon people, appreciate the patience while I’m on my monthlong, sabbatical-type trip to see my folks in the US. I don’t do a lot of heavy quotes in this one, but I do lean very heavily on … Continue reading SFD Short—Corruption →

Hey Everybody— The folks on Patreon have voted the news shows into wider circulation, so they’ll be coming out either regularly or when we have a blank Monday to fill. That should make it easier for anybody who wasn’t into listening on Patreon (and who really wants, no sarcasm, to leave their podcast app to … Continue reading NAFTA →

Hey folks, This show’s coming to you on a Tuesday just because of that new job I mentioned and because Thanksgiving happened on a Sunday this year in Mexico. What I’d like to talk to you about now, though, is what’s going to happen to SFD over the next month or so. No big or … Continue reading Saving the State Department—A Conversation with Rob Morris →

We’re covering a pretty long period in this one, from half or most of the way through the war with Iraq all the way up to the present, although it’s a pretty quick hustle from Khomeini’s death in 1989 to today. The two major players during this period, if not in Hashemi’s case always from … Continue reading Iran IX: The End →

Hey folks— It’s explained in the show, but the tortured titling here comes from that I promised the last Iran show this week, and in what’s to me the most important sense, I delivered. It’s written, recorded, edited, all that. It’s just not up on the site. WordPress and my podcasting plugin don’t play too … Continue reading Iran VIII Part One: The War →

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