Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad cover art

All Episodes

Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad — 100 episodes

#
Title
1

Epstein and The Thrill of Domination

2

The Violent Crimes of Lost, Angry Men

3

Today's Family Structure Extolled and Endangered

4

The State of Women in the U.S. in 2025

5

If Children Are Our Future, Americans Are out of Luck

6

Labors of Love

7

A Different Kind of Power

8

Epstein — A Marriage of Capitalist Corruption and Misogyny

9

Social Reproduction Theory Illuminates the Issues of Our Time

10

Out With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani's Win is for All

11

Social Reproduction Theory: A Tool for Changing U.S. Society

12

How Economic Transformations Impact America's Mental Health

13

Can The Left Deal With America's Mental Health Crisis?

14

Why Some Americans Still Support Trump

15

The Love Lost by the Left

16

How Capitalism Breeds Sociopathic Mental Illness

17

What's In Store For Women Under Trump?

18

What's Love Got to Do With It?

19

Marriage and Capitalism

20

Prolific Rapists Exposed and Prosecuted: Why Do These Men Rape?

21

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Trump and his Supporters

22

Patriarchy and Capitalism: Joint Partners in Sexual Abuse

23

Why Did Trump Win?

24

History of Childhood

25

Whole Societies Can Be In Denial, Ours Certainly Is...

26

A Crime of Domination, Denial of Need & Dis-Connection from Other Human Beings

27

Birth Strike in the USA

28

The Spirit Level of the United States

29

Whither Family-Withered Families

30

Marriage Is No Longer A Rite of Passage in American Adulthood

31

A Revolution in the Family Is Already Happening

32

Trump As Totem

33

Voluntary Childlessness Is A Worldwide Trend. Why?

34

Women's Traditional Labor, Skills and Strengths Are Learned Behaviors

35

The Family - Does It Work? Did It Ever?

36

"The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand?

37

How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America?

38

World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard

39

Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development

40

Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism

41

Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 2 of 2

42

Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 1 of 2

43

Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?

44

What Are Some Life Supports for America's Failing Isolated Nuclear Families?

45

US Empire Falls. Families Fail? Why?

46

Capitalism's Impact on Our Personal Lives

47

BRICS & The End of US Dominance

48

Signs of a Declining Empire

49

All Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception

50

The Impact of Gender Roles - Care Work, Mass Violence & the Way Forward

51

Where do Gender Roles Come From?

52

Inflation & Manufactured Poverty

53

What Are The Personal Costs of Inflation?

54

Ukraine War & Our Coping Mechanisms

55

Waking Up to the Falling American Empire

56

Broken Social Bonds

57

How Disconnection Harms Us

58

Family - A Feminist, Class Analysis

59

Individualism is a Capitalist Deception

60

Adoring the Monarchy

61

System-Driven Loneliness

62

Trauma & Survival Mechanisms

63

United We Win, Divided We Fall

64

Roe v. Wade Overturned - How Did We Get Here?

65

US Militarism & Domestic Terrorism

66

America's Problem With Mass Shootings - An Analysis of Uvalde

67

Connection - The Foundation of Mental Health

68

The Right vs. Gender Freedom

69

Mental Health in a Profit-Driven, Isolated Society

70

The Business of Mental Health

71

Why The Women's Liberation Movement Fractured

72

The Origins of Racism - An Untold History

73

Sex Work - A Marxian Class Analysis

74

Political Right v.s. Abortion Rights

75

How Americans Cope With Falling Living Standards

76

Capitalism and Opioids - A Deadly Combination

77

Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Unity

78

Addiction and Desperation

79

What Can Americans Do To Be Happier?

80

US Workers Strike

81

Americans Face Mass Evictions

82

Why Does the US Lead the World in Rape?

83

Capitalism & Patriarchy - Cuomo, Cosby, Weinstein & Epstein

84

The Labor History We Need to Celebrate - The One We Never Hear About

85

Why Are 9.2 Million US Jobs Open?

86

Cruel Optimism

87

Why Has Britney Spears' Pain Riveted America?

88

Class Transformation in the Household

89

What is Class?

90

Identity Politics - Class Politics

91

Violence - A Shield for Emotional Vulnerability

92

Children in the US Today

93

The American Family

94

The Socialist Feminist Way To Beat the NRA and Militarism

95

Capitalism's Connection to America's Mass Shootings

96

Should Andrew Cuomo be Impeached?

97

Caring: The Crucial Infrastructure of Human Life

98

Shelter As a Human Right

99

Healthy Food- A Basic Need for Human Survival

100

Water is a Human Right