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Booked #2: Wonder Woman and the History of Feminism

Timothy Shenk ▪ March 3, 2015

Tim Shenk talks with historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore about Wonder Woman and the lost history of feminism.

China’s Dream Parks

Nic Cavell ▪ Winter 2015

Since 1989, thousands of theme parks have been built across China, in an uncanny reflection of the country’s economic liberalization.

The Calling

Evan Kindley ▪ Winter 2015

If being an academic today is a profession, it’s one that is, for the vast majority, almost bereft of professionalism’s worldly benefits.

The Rojava Spirit Spreads

Adam Barnett ▪ February 25, 2015

Can the Kurdish experiment in radical democracy stem Turkey’s authoritarian turn?

Women and Islamic Militancy

Rafia Zakaria ▪ Winter 2015

Is it possible that ISIS appeals to some Muslim women not because they are fooled by it, but because its political vision seems to offer solutions to some of their problems?

Followed by a debate.

Belabored Podcast #71: Building Care, with Ai-jen Poo

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 20, 2015

Belabored talked with Ai-jen Poo talk about her new book, The Age of Dignity, her work organizing domestic workers, how care work is undervalued, and how racism and sexism contributed to the crisis in caring labor.

Executive Justice?

Mae Ngai and Daniel Kanstroom ▪ Spring 2015

Both law and history are on Obama’s side when it comes to executive action on immigration.

Moral Minority

Maxine Phillips ▪ Winter 2015

Whither the U.S. Protestant left?

How Immigrant Activists Changed L.A.

Manuel Pastor ▪ Winter 2015

Since the 1990s, immigrant and labor activists in Los Angeles have worked together to build a powerful progressive movement.

Fantasies of Federalism

Samuel Moyn ▪ Winter 2015

Why did the nation-state model win out, when the alternatives were supposedly so compelling?

Belabored Podcast #70: Striking Oil, with Steve Garey

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 6, 2015

U.S. oil workers are are on strike, in the largest walkout since 1980. Belabored talked with Steve Garey, president of United Steelworkers local 12-591 in Mount Vernon, WA, about worker safety, the decision to strike, and what’s at stake.

The People’s Flag is Palest Pink

Tim Barker ▪ Winter 2015

The popular 2014 film Pride neatly dramatizes how queer–labor solidarity during the miners’ strike pushed back against Margaret Thatcher’s combination of social conservatism and market nihilism.