Left Anchor
Philosophy, politics, and the left.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 377
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 41 - (Part I): Interview with @AOC Green New Deal Adviser Robert Hockett @rch371
This time we talk about the Green New Deal with Robert Hockett, a Cornell law professor and policy adviser of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We discuss the basic objectives of aggressive climate policy, t…
Episode 40 preview - The Butcher Elliot Abrams
Here's a preview of our latest episode -- available now on Patreon!
Episode 39 - Interview with @ProfPeterCole on Dockworker Unions
This time we bring on Peter Cole, a historian at Western Illinois University, to talk about his new book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. We discuss the f…
Episode 37 - W.E.B. Du Bois and Reconstruction
For the second episode in our Black History Month series, we look at W.E.B. Du Bois, and especially his groundbreaking history of Reconstruction.
Episode 35 - #HandsOffVenezuela - Interview with @PatrickIber
This time we bring on Patrick Iber, a historian specializing in Latin America. We discuss the dismal internal situation in Venezuela, Trump's proposed imperialist aggression, and how the American lef…
Episode 33 - MLK Day Special: Interview with @dolladollabille on the Wages of Whiteness and Kamala Harris
This time we have on Vanessa Bee, a writer, editor, and podcaster for Current Affairs. We discuss the contrasting perspectives of the nature of white privilege with Martin Luther King, Jr and James B…
Episode 32 preview - Henry George and Populism
Here's a quick excerpt of our latest bonus episode, available right now on Patreon!
Episode 31 - Interview with @DanteAtkins
This time we talk to longtime Democratic Party activist, political writer, and current congressional staffer Dante Atkins. We discuss the evolution of the party's internal thinking, how it actually f…
Episode 29 - Imperial Accounting, the Theory of Labor Aristocracy, and AOC's Tax Extravaganza
In this episode we discuss how profitable America's imperial machinery really is for the average American schlub (using import statistics from the Federal Reserve and the Census, h/t Matt Bruenig), r…
Episode 27 — Judith Butler and the Yellow Vests
In our holiday special, we delve into Judith Butler's Adorno Prize Lecture from September 11, 2012 entitled "Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?" as a framework for better understanding the signi…
Episode 25 - WASP Unbound with @jeffspross
In this episode, we bring back world champion guest Jeff Spross to discuss Ross Douthat's argument against meritocracy, Bernard Yack's review of Bernard Manin's book The Principles of Representative …
Episode 23 - Interview with @ThePlumLineGS
This time we interview the Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent, who has a new book out called An Uncivil War. We discuss how to save American democracy, the fecklessness of Democratic Party elites…
Episode 21a: Patreon Announcement
Folks have been asking about this, and here it is: patreon.com/leftanchor.
We'll be publishing two episodes per week, one for patrons and one for free. If you feel like that's worth $5 a month, or wa…
Episode 21 - Interview with Brad Evans ( @HistofViolence ), Part II: Fascism
In the second part of our interview with University of Bath philosopher Brad Evans (don't miss part I!) we discuss the characteristics and functions of fascism, and how it may or may not apply to cur…
Episode 20 - Interview with Brad Evans ( @HistofViolence ) Part I: Political Violence & Neoliberalism
This is the first of a two-part interview of Brad Evans, a philosopher and critical theorist who specializes in violence at the University of Bath. We discuss the politics and the spectacle of violen…
Episode 19 - Is Democratic Socialism TOO Democratic or Not Democratic Enough?
In this episode from the archive, we discuss dueling takes on whether the rise of democratic socialism in DSA and elsewhere is Taking Democracy Too Far (from friend of the pod Conor Friedersdorf) or …
Episode 18 - Interview with @franklinbynum
Today we have a very special episode! It's entirely dedicated to an interview with Franklin Bynum, the Judge-elect of Harris County Criminal Court #8, a Houston DSA member who walloped his Republican…
Episode 17 - Kant, Jonathan Haidt, & Feckless Liberalism
In this episode, we discuss Immanuel Kant's views about the Enlightenment, how they have come down to us today in a bastardized form with Jonathan Haidt's atrocious book The Righteous Mind, and the o…
Episode 16 - Immigration, Open Borders, & Rights, feat @jeffspross
This time we bring back Jeff Spross to talk about immigration, why conservatives and capitalists whip up anti-immigrant paranoia, the value of open borders as a policy and as a utopian demand, and cl…