Left Anchor
Philosophy, politics, and the left.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 377
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 130 - Rohan Grey on #MintTheCoin
We're talking with Rohan Grey today about a proposal he worked on with Rep. Rashida Tlaib on funding massive cash aid to Americans funded with two $1 trillion platinum coins. We talk about the balanc…
Episode 129 - NOlympics with Anne Orchier
This time we've got a bit of an off-beat interview, talking with Anne Orchier about the effort to stop Los Angeles from hosting the Olympic Games in 2028. It's not directly relevant to the coronaviru…
Episode 128 UNLOCKED - Epidemic Solidarity with Manu Saadia
Once again we're talking coronavirus, with returning guest Manu Saadia. We talk about what is to be learned from the various approaches different countries have taken, how Democrats are bungling the …
Episode 127 - A.C. Grayling on Democracy
Today we've got A.C. Grayling on to talk about his book The Good State, which provides his model of how an ideal democratic system should be set up. It's a bit off the news but we thought it would be…
Episode 125 - The Case Against Joe Biden
Today we do a deep dive into Joe Biden's terrible record in the Senate, and marginally-less terrible record as vice president. Then we turn to electability, and why a Biden nomination would screw up …
Episode 124 PREVIEW - Super Tuesday and Warren Drops Out
In this excerpt we discuss how to help Democratic voters realize that a Biden nomination is the risk it is. Subscribe here to hear the whole thing!
Episode 123 - Interview with PA-175 Candidate Jeff Dempsey
Today we've got Jeff Dempsey, who is running a progressive campaign in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 175th House district -- our first in-person interview and our first with a live audien…
Episode 122 PREVIEW - Nevada Results, the Sanders Coalition, and Pete Buttigieg
Episode 121 - The American Midwest with Phil Christman
Today we take a break from exhausting primary news to have writer and University of Michigan lecturer Phil Christman on to discuss his upcoming book Midwest Futures (you can pre-order here). We discu…
Episode 120 Preview - The Bloomberg Menace
Here we discuss why we won't vote for Michael Bloomberg if he is nominated. Subscribe here to hear the full episode!
Episode 119 - Why It Matters if Bernie Sanders Becomes President
Just Ryan today with a quick pre-New Hampshire episode going through Reed Hundt's excellent book A Crisis Wasted about the presidential transition in 2007-8 and Obama's consequential early decisions …
Episode 118 - Bernie Won Iowa
Ryan is back from vacation so we return with a discussion of the Iowa clusterfuck: How Bernie edged out Pete Buttigieg in the popular vote and tied in pleged delegates, how Biden collapsed, how and w…
Episode 117 PREVIEW - The Socialist Anti-Imperialism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Episode 116 - The Problem with Economics, with Max and Zak Alvarez
Today we have the Brothers Alvarez -- Maximillian and Zak -- of the Working People Podcast on with a crossover episode. We discuss what Zak learned from his time in the University of Chicago economic…
Episode 115 UNLOCKED - The Bernie-Warren Flap
With New Hampshire coming up, we've unlocked our episode on the Bernie-Warren competition.
Episode 114 - Losing the War, by Lee Sandlin
Bit of a different episode today: Ryan reads a very long 1997 essay about the Second World War by the late Lee Sandlin called "Losing the War" (with permission from Nina Sandlin). Though it takes thr…
Episode 113 PREVIEW - The Soleimani Assassination with Derek Davison
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Episode 112 - The True History of FDR and the New Deal, with Eric Rauchway
Today we've got UC Davis Professor of History Eric Rauchway on to talk the history of the New Deal, particularly the transition period in the winter of 1932-33 covered in his book Winter War. We take…
Episode 111 UNLOCKED - Union Organizing with Max Lyons and Nela Hadzic
Today we've got two professional union organizers on to talk about the state of labor organizing in 2019 -- the tactics of the union busters, the hostility of the Trump administration, and the brushf…
Episode 110 Preview - The Corbyn Defeat and Hope in Dark Times
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