All Episodes
Left Anchor — 409 episodes
'Christian' Nationalism Is Anti-American - 394 PREVIEW
The Age of Greenspan, with Rick Perlstein - 393
The Downfall of Keir Starmer - 392 PREVIEW
Iran Crisis Update
Can a Progressive Win in Mid-Michigan? - 389 UNLOCKED
AOC for President? - 391 PREVIEW
Donald Trump, Climate Warrior
Can a Progressive Win in Mid-Michigan? - 389 EXCERPT
North Shore Socialism - 388
Dire Strait of Hormuz - 387 PREVIEW
How to Sell a Genocide - 386
Five Years in the Pennsylvania Legislature, with Rick Krajewski - 185
The State of American Socialism in 2026 - 384 PREVIEW
Trump's Iran War - 383 UNLOCKED
Trump's Iran War - 383 EXCERPT
The Epstein Class - 382
The Minneapolis Resistance - 380 UNLOCKED
One Battle After Another - 381 PREVIEW
The Minneapolis Resistance - 380 EXCERPT
Facing Down ICE in Minneapolis
Gangster Imperialism in Venezuela - 378
Holiday Special: Wake Up Dead Man - 377 PREVIEW
The Case for Deliberation - 376
What Zohran Can Learn from the Sewer Socialists - 375 EXCERPT
Why the Thirty Years’ War Matters - 374
Summers, Epstein, and Economics
The 2025 Blue Wave - 372
The Bigoted Anti-Zohran Frenzy - 371 PREVIEW
Life After Cars - 370
The American Farm Crisis - 369 EXCERPT
Better Than Ezra - 368
Nordic Socialism - 367 EXCERPT
Why Christians Should Be Leftists - 366 PREVIEW
The Covid Doctors of Doubt - 365
The Case for Democracy - 364
Greenland Report - 363 EXCERPT
Katie Brennan Beat the New Jersey Machine - 362 EXCERPT
A Turning Point for Gaza? - 361
Transphobia Is Based on Lies - 360
The Worst Law in 175 Years - 359 PREVIEW
Four Futures Revisited - 353 UNLOCKED
How Zohran Did It - 358
Liberal Socialism?? - 357
Israel's War on Iran - 356 PREVIEW
The Kaleckian Moment in 2024 - 355 PREVIEW
Elon Is Out—Or Is He? - 354
Four Futures Revisited - 353 PREVIEW
A New Left Economics? - 352
Silicon Valley Brain Rot - 351 PREVIEW
Empty Shelves Are Coming - 350
Whiskey Pete - 349 PREVIEW
Stonks - 348
Late Star Trek - 347 PREVIEW
Abundance Incoherence - 346
How the Union Movement Can Rebuild - 345 EXCERPT
Trump's Assault on Universities - 344
The Power of Propaganda with Hannah Arendt - 220 UNLOCKED
The Failure of Constitutional Theory - 343
The Biggest Asshole in History PREVIEW
The Tech Oligarch Consent Machine - 341
The Elon Musk Coup - 340 PREVIEW
Trump's First Days - 339
Public vs. Private Virtue - 338 PREVIEW
The Trump Tsunami Approacheth - 337
The Oligarch Class - 324 UNLOCKED
National Lampoon's Left Anchor Holiday Special - 336 PREVIEW
Bidenomics Retrospective - 335
Chaos on the March - 334 PREVIEW
On the Ground in Philly - 333
What Now? - 332 PREVIEW
Welp - 331
What's Downballot in 2024? - 330
Lake Powell Is Doomed - 329 PREVIEW
The 2024 Election Home Stretch - 328
A Year of Butchery in Gaza - 327 PREVIEW
The BS Epidemic - 326
American Political Freaks - 325 PREVIEW
The Flailing Trump Campaign - 322 UNLOCKED
The Oligarch Class - 324 PREVIEW
DNC Recap - 323
The Flailing Trump Campaign - 322 PREVIEW
Democrats in Array - 321
America’s Rotting Presidential System - 320
The Enigma Kamala Harris - 319 PREVIEW
The Early 90s Were Decadent and Depraved - 318
When the President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal - 317 PREVIEW
Solidarity Forever - 311 UNLOCKED
The Right-Wing Recruitment Pipeline II - 316 PREVIEW
The Right-Wing Recruitment Pipeline - 315
The Rampaging Supreme Court - 314
How Merrick Garland Appeased Trump - UNLOCKED
The Legacy of Coal - 313 UNLOCKED
The Fascist Attack on Gaza Protests - 312
Solidarity Forever - 311 PREVIEW
Ernst Bloch's Audacity of Hope - 310
How Merrick Garland Appeased Trump - 309 PREVIEW
The ACLU Stabs Labor in the Back - 308
Orwell on Nationalism - 307 PREVIEW
Who Is Grieved? - 306
Russia and Ukraine Update PREVIEW - 305
The House Republican Pratfall - 304
The Genocide Case Against Israel PREVIEW - 303
Oppenheimer Reconsidered - 302
Trump’s Legal Morass Deepens - 301 PREVIEW
Age of Insecurity UNLOCKED - 294
Children of Men, a Christmas Movie - 300
Nordic Labor, and the US Economic Sentiment Problem - 299
The War on Gaza III - 298
Kissinger Is Dead TEASER - 297
The War on Gaza II UNLOCKED - 292
Corporate Bullshit PREVIEW - 296
The Neoliberal Education Fantasy - 295
Age of Insecurity TEASER - 294
Who Is Mike Johnson? - 293
The War on Gaza II - 292 PREVIEW
The War on Gaza - 291
Damp Labor Autumn - 290
Barbie Reconsidered PREVIEW - 289
Finland’s Cooperative Culture - 288
Liberalism vs. Socialism - 283 UNLOCKED
Lock Him Up - 287
The Art of Loving - 286 PREVIEW
Green Energy in a Red State - 285
Fully Automated Fruit Communism - 284 PREVIEW
Episode 224 UNLOCKED - The Man Question
Episode 283 PREVIEW - Liberalism vs. Socialism
Episode 282 - Putin’s War Goes Sideways
Episode 281 PREVIEW - The Dire State of Gaming Media
Episode 280 - Angry about Capitalism
Episode 279 EXCERPT - The Debt Ceiling Deal
Episode 278 - The Rise of Italian Post-Fascism
Episode 277 UNLOCKED - Trans Rights in Finland
Episode 276 - The Ends of Freedom
Episode 275 PREVIEW - The One Million Dollar Tweet
Episode 274 PREVIEW - Farewell to a Crypto-Nazi Blowhard
Episode 273 - Revolutionary Mathematics
Episode 272 - What’s Going on in Tennessee?
Episode 271 PREVIEW - Authoritarians Having a Bad Time
Episode 270 - America’s Rotting Civic Infrastructure
Episode 269 PREVIEW - The SVB Collapse
Episode 268 - The Education Myth
Episode 267 PREVIEW - The Trans Panic II
Episode 266 UNLOCKED - Tales from the Black Power Movement
Episode 265 - The Trans Panic
Episode 264 PREVIEW - The Biden Antitrust Agenda
Episode 263 - What Is Reproductive Justice? with Felicia Kornbluh
Episode 262 PREVIEW - Marianne Williamson on the Politics of Love
Episode 261 - Casablanca and Inside Llewyn Davis
Episode 236 UNLOCKED - Towards a Better Identity Politics with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Episode 260 PREVIEW - Opening the Mailbag
Episode 170 RERUN - America Is Pottersville
Episode 259 PREVIEW - America’s Lithium Bonanza?
Episode 258 - The Crypto Shill Brigade
Episode 257 PREVIEW - Alaska, Iran, and Freight Rail
Episode 256 - Capital’s Terrorists
Episode 255 PREVIEW - The 2022 Midterms
Episode 243 UNLOCKED - Stealing America Back from the Right with Jamelle Bouie
Episode 254 PREVIEW - Ukraine, the Midterms, and Brazil
Episode 253 - The British Marxist Historians
Episode 252 PREVIEW: Pining for the Fjords
Episode 251 - UBI and a Socialist Work Ethic
Episode 250 PREVIEW - DeSantis, the Queen, and Omicron Boosters
Episode 249 - The State of the War in Ukraine
Episode 248 EXCERPT - Lessons from American Labor History
Episode 247 - Working in a Pandemic
Episode 246 PREVIEW - Dark Brandon Rises
Episode 245 - Saving American Democracy through the States
Episode 244 - The Inflation Reduction Act
How Are You Going to Pay for That? Introduction: The Case Against Saving Scolds
Episode 243 EXCERPT: Stealing America Back from the Right with Jamelle Bouie
Episode 242 - Lessons from Legislating with Nikil Saval
Episode 241 - The Ethics of Socialism with William Clare Roberts
Episode 240 PREVIEW - The January 6 Hearings
Episode 239 - The State of American Socialism with David Duhalde
Episode 238 PREVIEW - American School Financing Is a Disaster
Episode 59 RERUN - The Case for Student Debt Cancellation
Episode 237 - The Politics of Time
Episode 236 PREVIEW - Towards a Better Identity Politics with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Episode 235 - Speech in the Academy
Episode 234 - Shortages and Inflation with David Dayen
Episode 209 UNLOCKED - On Popularism, with Alex Pareene
Episode 233 - The Politics and Culture of Video Games
Episode 232 UNLOCKED - The Amazon Union Struggle
Episode 232 PREVIEW - The Union Struggle at Amazon
Episode 231 - Minneapolis Justice Reform with Mary Moriarty
Episode 230 PREVIEW - Jeff Bezos, Welfare Queen
Episode 229 - The Broken American Legal System, with Sparky Abraham
Episode 228 - The Hapless Merrick Garland, with Jeff Hauser
Episode 63 REVENGEANCE: Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas
Episode 227 - Lessons from Putin’s War on Ukraine, with John Ganz
Episode 226 - Giorgio Agamben’s Antivax Ravings
Episode 225 EXCERPT: Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine, with David Klion
Episode 224 PREVIEW - Normal World Much?? with Phil Christman
Episode 223 - The Economy Is Wilding Out, with Rob Larson
Episode 222 PREVIEW: How Are You Going to Pay for That, Part II
Episode 89 RERUN - Brian Fallon on Stomping out BigLaw Corruption
Episode 221 - How Are You Going to Pay for That?
Episode 220 PREVIEW - The Power of Propaganda with Hannah Arendt
Episode 219 - One Year After the Trump Putsch
Episode 218 PREVIEW - Rest in Power bell hooks
Episode 170 UNLOCKED: America Is Pottersville
Episode 217 PREVIEW - Fake Populism and the Right‘s New Hitler Apologia
Episode 216 PREVIEW - Omicron of Solace
Episode 215 - Carceral Con with Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg
Episode 214 PREVIEW - The Davos Climate Cuddle Puddle with Kate Aronoff
Episode 213 - Seeing Like an Activist with Erin Pineda
Episode 212 PREVIEW - The Grim Legacy of 2008 with David Sirota
Episode 211 PREVIEW - Democrats in Disarray with David Dayen
Episode 210 - The American Gulag, with Ashley Lucas
Episode 209 PREVIEW - On Popularism with Alex Pareene
Episode 207 - Making Monsters with David Livingstone Smith
Episode 206 PREVIEW - The Facebook Faceplant and the Sinema Syndrome
Episode 205 - The Fascism Question, Part II
Episode 172 UNLOCKED - The Trump Putsch
Episode 204 PREVIEW - America‘s 20-Year War Bender
Episode 203 - Socialism and Nature
Episode 202 EXCERPT - The Afghanistan Withdrawal with Lyta Gold
Episode 201 PREVIEW - Caught in the Gears of Capitalism with Nate Holdren
Episode 200 - Beholding Humanity with Brad Evans
Episode 199 PREVIEW - Climate Politics and Hungary Discourse
Episode 198 - The Jersey Machine with Imani Oakley
Episode 197 PREVIEW - Climate Hell Is Here
Episode 194 UNLOCKED - Critical Race Theory, Real and Imagined
Episode 196 - PREVIEW - The Coconut Revolution with Manu Saadia
Episode 195 - Waiting on the Thunder with Matt Karp
Episode 194 PREVIEW - Critical Race Theory, Real and Imagined
Episode 187 UNLOCKED - Thomas Paine with Harvey Kaye
Episode 193 PREVIEW - Thomas Piketty and Theories of Justice
Episode 189 UNLOCKED - The Legacy of the New Deal, with Eric Rauchway
Episode 192 PREVIEW - Disability History with Chelsea Chamberlain
Episode 191 - Remaking the World with Astra Taylor
Episode 190 PREVIEW - Glenn Greenwald's Right Turn
Episode 183 UNLOCKED - The Semiconductor Situation
Episode 189 PREVIEW - The Legacy of the New Deal, with Eric Rauchway
Episode 188 - Collective Dedication, with Pete Davis
Episode 187 PREVIEW - Thomas Paine with Harvey Kaye
Episode 186 - The Fight for Homeless Justice in Austin, with Chris Harris
Episode 184 - Jersey Shore Marxism, with Gabriel Raeburn
Episode 182 - The Movements of 2020 with David Kaib
Episode 181 PREVIEW - The Year from Hell
Episode 180 - The Felt Blanket of M4A, with Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson
Episode 179 PREVIEW - The Austerity Debate and Gramsci's War of Position
Episode 178 - Messing with Texas, featuring Kate Aronoff
Episode 177 - The Fascism Question, with John Ganz
Episode 176 UNLOCKED - The Revolution Will not Be Monetized, with Doug Henwood
Episode 176 PREVIEW - Doug Henwood on GAMESTONK
Episode 175 - America's Tradition of Egalitarian Freedom, with Mike Konczal
Episode 174 PREVIEW - The New Government
Episode 117 UNLOCKED - The Socialist Anti-Imperialism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Episode 173 - The Organizer Ben Fletcher, with Peter Cole
Episode 172 PREVIEW: The Trump Putsch
Episode 171 - Socialist Freedom
Episode 170 PREVIEW - America Is Pottersville
Episode 168 UNLOCKED - The Worst Excerpts from the Obama Memoir
Episode 167 - The Work of Politics with Steven Klein
Episode 166 PREVIEW - How Social Security Created the Senior Vote, with Jeff Spross
Episode 165 - Dehumanization with David Livingstone Smith
Episode 164 - The Post-Trump Future with Osita Nwanevu
Episode 163 PREVIEW - Bye Bye to the LOSER Donald Trump
Episode 162 PREVIEW - Greenwald Drama and Election Stakes
Episode 161 - The Fratelli Tutti Encyclical, with Matthew Sitman
Episode 160 PREVIEW - Life, Death, and Democratic Socialism, Part II
Episode 159 - Oil and the American Empire with Robert Vitalis
Left Anchor 158 PREVIEW 2: The Trump-Biden Debate
Episode 158 PREVIEW 1: Trump's Got the Covid
Episode 157 - Imperial Rollback with Daniel Bessner
Episode 156 PREVIEW - RIP RBG
Episode 155 - Socialism vs. Antitrust with Marshall Steinbaum
Episode 149 UNLOCKED - The Four Freedoms with Harvey J. Kaye
Episode 153 - Healing Politics with Abdul El-Sayed
Episode 152 - The Thought of MLK with Meena Krishnamurthy
Episode 151 PREVIEW: Did Kamala Harris Have to Be Tough on Crime?
Episode 150 - Monopolized America with David Dayen
Episode 149 PREVIEW - The Four Freedoms with Harvey Kaye
Episode 148 - Randian Moochers with Tobi Olowe
Episode 147 PREVIEW - Life, Death, and Democratic Socialism
Episode 146 -American City Government with Bill Humphrey
Episode 145 PREVIEW - The Coronavirus Resurgence and Democratic Primaries
Episode 144 - Primarying Bad Democrats with Arati Kreibich
Episode 142 - The Power of Protests and The End of Policing: Part II, with David Kaib
Episode 141 PREVIEW - The Power of Protests and The End of Policing: Part I
Episode 140 - Breaking into the Democratic Machine with Nikil Saval
Episode 139 - The Keynesian Movement with Zach Carter
Episode 138 UNLOCKED - The Coronavirus Death March with David Dayen
Episode 138 PREVIEW: The Coronavirus Death March with David Dayen
Episode 137 - Political Religion with Jack Jenkins
Episode 136 Preview: Why Bernie Lost, Part II
Episode 135 - Why Bernie Lost with David Sirota
Episode 134 - UBI vs. Job Guarantee with Jeff Spross
Episode 133 - The Radical FDR with Harvey Kaye
Episode 132 - Tara Isabella Burton & Strange Rites
Episode 131 PREVIEW - The Coronavirus General Strike
Episode 130 - Rohan Grey on #MintTheCoin
Episode 129 - NOlympics with Anne Orchier
Episode 128 UNLOCKED - Epidemic Solidarity with Manu Saadia
Episode 127 - A.C. Grayling on Democracy
Episode 125 - The Case Against Joe Biden
Episode 124 PREVIEW - Super Tuesday and Warren Drops Out
Episode 123 - Interview with PA-175 Candidate Jeff Dempsey
Episode 122 PREVIEW - Nevada Results, the Sanders Coalition, and Pete Buttigieg
Episode 121 - The American Midwest with Phil Christman
Episode 120 Preview - The Bloomberg Menace
Episode 119 - Why It Matters if Bernie Sanders Becomes President
Episode 118 - Bernie Won Iowa
Episode 117 PREVIEW - The Socialist Anti-Imperialism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Episode 116 - The Problem with Economics, with Max and Zak Alvarez
Episode 115 UNLOCKED - The Bernie-Warren Flap
Episode 114 - Losing the War, by Lee Sandlin
Episode 113 PREVIEW - The Soleimani Assassination with Derek Davison
Episode 112 - The True History of FDR and the New Deal, with Eric Rauchway
Episode 111 UNLOCKED - Union Organizing with Max Lyons and Nela Hadzic
Episode 110 Preview - The Corbyn Defeat and Hope in Dark Times
Episode 109 - Nicole Fabricant on the Bolivian Situation
Episode 108 UNLOCKED - Ezra Levin on Political Organizing
Episode 107 - The Baldwin-Buckley Debate
Episode 106 Preview - Overworked America
Episode 105 - Matt Karp on the Antislavery Movement and Bernie vs. Warren
Episode 104 Preview - Jeff Spross on the Warren Medicare-for-All Financing Flap
Episode 103 - Interview with Texas-25 Candidate Heidi Sloan
Episode 102 Preview - Emma Caterine on Credit and Utopian Science Fiction
Episode 101 - Harvey Kaye on the Promise of America
Episode 100 Preview - Manu Saadia on Piketty's Capital and Ideology, Part II
Episode 99 - Jedediah Purdy on the Crumbling American Commonwealth
Episode 98 Preview: Manu Saadia on Piketty's Capital and Ideology
Episode 97a Preview: An Exploration of the Little Colorado River Gorge
Episode 97 - David Dayen on Presidential Power
Episode 96 Preview: Hannah Arendt on Republican Cheating
Episode 95 - Liza Featherstone on the 2020 Primary
Episode 94 UNLOCKED - Dissolving the Blob with David Klion
Episode 93 - Jamaal Green on Slavery and Capitalism
Episode 92 Preview: L'Affaire Bretbug
Episode 91 - Interview with John Thornton Jr., Socialist Southern Pastor
Episode 90 Preview: The Bernie-Warren Criminal Justice Reform Agenda
Episode 89 - Brian Fallon on Stomping out BigLaw Corruption
Episode 88 - Chris Hooks on the The Texas Legislature Shitshow
Episode 87 UNLOCKED - Adam Gaffney on Medicare for All
Episode 86 - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the Arctic's Open Borders Island
Episode 84 - Being a Socialist Judge with Franklin Bynum and Bryan LaVergne
Episode 83 Preview: Rob Larson on BS Economics
Episode 82 - The Liar Josh Hawley
UNLOCKED: (Episode 58): Ilhan Omar and the Patriotism Question
Episode 80 Preview: Chris Arnade on American Poverty, Part II
Episode 79 - Chris Arnade on American Poverty
Episode 78 preview - Robert Manduca on 1940s Business Propaganda
Episode 77 - David Sessions on Milquetoast Liberalism
Episode 76 UNLOCKED - Maximillian Alvarez on the Politics of Higher Ed
Episode 75 - Carl Beijer on the Global Green New Deal
Episode 74 Preview - The Neocons
Episode 73 - Greg Grandin on the American Frontier
Episode 72 - Elizabeth Warren Policypalooza Preview
Episode 71 - Astra Taylor on Democracy
Episode 70 Preview - Karl vs. Karl
Episode 69 - Natasha Lennard on Violence and Anti-Fascism
Episode 68 Preview - EU Elections and Politico's (((Bernie Sanders))) Article
Episode 67 - Bernie Policypalooza
Episode 66 Preview: Jeff Spross on the Job Guarantee
Episode 65 - Jeff Spross on MMT
Episode 63 - Corey Robin on Freedom and Clarence Thomas
Episode 61 - Interview with Manu Saadia ( @trekonomics) on Macron and the Yellow Vests
Episode 59 - Interview with @Econ_Marshall on Elizabeth Warren's Free College Proposal
Episode 58 Preview: Ilhan Omar and the Patriotism Question
Episode 57 - Interview with @EmmaCaterineDSA on Criminal Punishment Reform
Episode 55 - American Labor History with @yeselson
Episode 53 - Adorno on the Psychology of Fascism
Episode 52 UNLOCKED - Polkapalooza with @maximillian_alv and @ambientGillian
Episode 51 - Interview with @mehdirhasan on Mueller and White Nationalist Terrorism
Episode 50 Preview - Frantz Fanon on Political Violence
Episode 49 - Billionaire Boondoggles with @Pat_Garofalo
Episode 47 - Gothic Marxism with @TheLitCritGuy
Episode 45 - Varieties of Left Ideology and You Might be a Neoliberal If ...
Episode 43 - Interview with @DavidKaib on MLK and Iris Marion Young
UNLOCKED: Episode 42 - Interview with @AOC Adviser @rch371, Part II
Episode 41 - (Part I): Interview with @AOC Green New Deal Adviser Robert Hockett @rch371
Episode 40 preview - The Butcher Elliot Abrams
Episode 39 - Interview with @ProfPeterCole on Dockworker Unions
Episode 37 - W.E.B. Du Bois and Reconstruction
Episode 35 - #HandsOffVenezuela - Interview with @PatrickIber
Episode 34 Preview - "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" & Trump-Russia Update
Episode 33 - MLK Day Special: Interview with @dolladollabille on the Wages of Whiteness and Kamala Harris
Episode 32 preview - Henry George and Populism
Episode 31 - Interview with @DanteAtkins
Episode 29 - Imperial Accounting, the Theory of Labor Aristocracy, and AOC's Tax Extravaganza
Episode 27 — Judith Butler and the Yellow Vests
Episode 25 - WASP Unbound with @jeffspross
Episode 23 - Interview with @ThePlumLineGS
Episode 21a: Patreon Announcement
Episode 21 - Interview with Brad Evans ( @HistofViolence ), Part II: Fascism
Episode 20 - Interview with Brad Evans ( @HistofViolence ) Part I: Political Violence & Neoliberalism
Episode 19 - Is Democratic Socialism TOO Democratic or Not Democratic Enough?
Episode 18 - Interview with @franklinbynum
Episode 17 - Kant, Jonathan Haidt, & Feckless Liberalism
Episode 16 - Immigration, Open Borders, & Rights, feat @jeffspross
Episode 15 - 2018 Midterms
Episode 14 - Anand Giridharadas on Big Philanthropy & Antonio Gramsci
Episode 13 - Karl Polanyi
Episode 12 - Fascist Violence, David Hume, & Judith Butler
Episode 11 - Leftist Foreign Policy & Francis Fukuyama
Episode 10 - Fascism & Capitalism
Episode 9 - Champagne Ecosocialism & Jon Chait Join DSA, feat @jeffspross
Episode 8 - How Should the Left Think about the Judiciary? Feat. Bajeera McCorkle
Episode 7 - Saudi Arabia & Machiavelli
Episode 6 - #MeToo, Hierarchy, & Inequality
Episode 5 - Kavanaugh, Kennedy, & Aristotle
Episode 4a - Housekeeping
Episode 4 - Russia, Hobbes, and Locke
Episode 3 - Jon Chait, socialist semiotics, and political demographics
Episode 2 - New York state primaries, Hurricane Florence, and climate change
Episode 1 - Steven Pinker & Rousseau
Episode 0 - Introduction