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Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
July 2, 2009 Leo Panitch, author of this cover story inForeign Policy, on why the bourgeoisie is interested in Marx (and, of course, why they should be) * Jackson Lears, author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920, on American regeneration (mainly through violence) after the Civil War
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June 25, 2009 Alyssa Katz, author of Our Lot, on the homeownership fetish and the housing bubble/bust * Liza Featherstone (author of this article, and, it should be disclosed, wife/beloved of the host) and Adolph Reed on the burdens of college tuition and how the problem can be solved by making it free
June 18, 2009 Dan Fleshler, author of Transforming America's Israel Lobby, on the exaggerated power of the lobby and what can be done about it * Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University on the Iranian election and its aftermath
June 11, 2009 Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News, on Mexican drug gangs on both sides of the border * Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market, on the loopy notion of market efficiency and its toxic political effects
June 6, 2009 (KPFA version) Steffie Woolhandler on the (very high) contribution of medical costs to personal bankruptcy (article here) * Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart, on Christian free enterprise and the Behemoth of Bentonville
May 30, 2009 (KPFA only) Daniel Geary, author Radical Ambition, on the life and thought of C. Wright Mills * Claudia Goldin on the labor market penalty suffered by women who have a kid
May 23, 2009 (KPFA only) Vijay Prashad of Trinity College on the Indian elections * David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law School on how bankruptcy (rather than trillion dollar checks) could be used to deal with the financial crisis
April 30, 2009 Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It, on life and labor in precarious times * Michael Yates, author of Why Unions Matter, just out in a second edition, on just that topic
April 23, 2009 William Robinson, UCSB sociology prof under attack by the Zionist lobby, on his case (more, with links, here) * Richard Seymour, keeper of the Lenin's Tomb blog and author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, on the U.S. left, and imperialism under Obama * Paul Mason, author of Meltdown, on The Crisis
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