Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman
K. Sabeel Rahman talks about his new book Democracy against Domination, and why liberals need to recover a language of economic power.
Winter 2026
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Kinetic Joy
In Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, a young woman explores her racial identity through a love of dance—and finds a different kind of history, one that is barely written down.
On Blueness: A Conversation with Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett talks about writing poetry after Ferguson.
Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State
Elizabeth Hinton discusses her new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.
Booked: Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
In her new book, Our Sister Republics, Caitlin Fitz exhumes a forgotten moment in the history of the Americas, a time when residents of the newly formed United States came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
Ripped from the Headlines
Hollywood has always had a strong appetite for fact yet a curiously lax attitude in adhering to it. The typical biopic, for example, focused on celebrated figures, from Abraham Lincoln to Cole Porter, and tended to be sloppy and selective, …
Booked: How the 1970s Energy Crisis Changed American Politics
An interview with historian Meg Jacobs about her new book, Panic at the Pump.
Booked: Is It Time to Retire the Term “Revolution”?
An interview with historian David A. Bell about his new book on the French Revolution.
Belabored Podcast #99: Because of Sex, with Gillian Thomas
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act made it illegal for employers to discriminate “because of sex.” We talk with Gillian Thomas, author of a new book on the history of the Supreme Court’s rulings on that little phrase, which have shaped the experiences of millions of working people.
Booked: The Living Dead
An interview with Thomas Laqueur about his book The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains.
A Tour of the American Left
An interview with Daniel Oppenheimer about his new book Exit Right, a survey of the twentieth-century American left, seen through the eyes of six men who left it behind and turned to the right.
Booked: A Global History of Time
An interview with historian Vanessa Ogle about her new book The Global Transformation of Time.
Booked: What Is the Anthropocene?
Jedediah Purdy explains why there is no more “nature” independent of human activity—and what that means for our politics.
Reorganizing Labor
Only a mass movement by union members and sympathetic workers will transform organized labor into the bold agent of change it once was.
Who Runs the Fed?
The Federal Reserve model undermines economic well-being by concentrating power—and therefore wealth and income—in fewer and fewer hands.
