Left Anchor
Philosophy, politics, and the left.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 377
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 90 Preview: The Bernie-Warren Criminal Justice Reform Agenda
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Episode 89 - Brian Fallon on Stomping out BigLaw Corruption
Today former press secretary for Hillary Clinton and spokesman for Chuck Schumer Brian Fallon jumps into the Left Anchor lion's den to advocate for his proposal for all 2020 Dem candidates to promise…
Episode 88 - Chris Hooks on the The Texas Legislature Shitshow
Something is happening in the Texas legislature's Republican delegation ... but what it is ain't exactly clear. We bring on Chris Hooks to talk about his Texas Monthly article explaining how the stat…
Episode 87 UNLOCKED - Adam Gaffney on Medicare for All
Adam Gaffney is the president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a doctor at the Harvard Medical School. He talks to us about the prospects for Medicare for All, whether moderate Democra…
Episode 86 - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the Arctic's Open Borders Island
Svalbard is a huge island about halfway between the north coast of Norway and the North Pole, which has the unusual characteristic of being accessible to anyone in the world without a visa (with some…
Episode 84 - Being a Socialist Judge with Franklin Bynum and Bryan LaVergne
Harris County (home of Houston, Texas) recently entered into a consent decree to overhaul the cash bail process in its courts -- which among other things makes it much harder to lock up poor people f…
Episode 83 Preview: Rob Larson on BS Economics
In this excerpt, we've got Professor Rob Larson on the podcast to talk about his new book Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom.
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Episode 82 - The Liar Josh Hawley
This time we have some actual breaking news on the podcast! After discussing the Pelosi/Squad dispute (TNR article here) and the Mueller testimony today (NR article here), we turn to Senator Josh Haw…
UNLOCKED: (Episode 58): Ilhan Omar and the Patriotism Question
For the free episode this week, we are UNLOCKING a bonus episode from back in April on Ilhan Omar and Patriotism. We are doing this for unfortunately timely reasons, in light of Trump's bigoted, xen…
Episode 80 Preview: Chris Arnade on American Poverty, Part II
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Episode 79 - Chris Arnade on American Poverty
This time we've got Jeff Spross filling in as guest host to chat with Chris Arnade, author of Dignity, a Studs Terkel-style ethnography of American poverty. We talk about what inspired him to leave W…
Episode 78 preview - Robert Manduca on 1940s Business Propaganda
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Episode 77 - David Sessions on Milquetoast Liberalism
This time we've got David Sessions on to talk about the extraordinarily weak tea contained in Adam Gopnik's new book A Thousand Small Sanities. Are liberals responsible for all the good things that h…
Episode 76 UNLOCKED - Maximillian Alvarez on the Politics of Higher Ed
Max Alvarez joins us again to talk about his experience navigating the treacherous waters of higher education this time. We discuss how he came to end up in graduate school, how the logic of markets …
Episode 75 - Carl Beijer on the Global Green New Deal
For once we've got a timely episode! Today we're talking with Carl Beijer, whose People's Policy Project paper on the international financing of climate change policy came out today. Tackling this pr…
Episode 74 Preview - The Neocons
Here we discuss a section of Jeane Kirkpatrick's famous essay on why America should support right-wing dictatorships. Subscribe now to hear the full episode!
Episode 73 - Greg Grandin on the American Frontier
This time we've got historian Greg Grandin on to talk about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, about the history of the American frontier, …
Episode 72 - Elizabeth Warren Policypalooza Preview
In this excerpt we talk about some strengths and blind spots in Warren's foreign policy ideas. Subscribe here to hear the full episode!
Episode 71 - Astra Taylor on Democracy
We bring on Astra Taylor to talk about her twinned book and documentary on democracy (What Is Democracy and Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone). We discuss the theory and pract…
Episode 70 Preview - Karl vs. Karl
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