History and Politics

My conversation with Naty T. Smith the co-host of the Money on the Left podcasts about the Constitutional Referendum in Chile. We talk on the causes of the defeat of the proposal for a new constitution which would have replaced the one from the Pinochet era from the origins of the new Constitutional Convention and the controversies it followed to day of the final vote.

My conversation with Brianna Coyle a former activist at the Libertarian Party. We talk about the takeover of the Libertarian Party by the Mises Caucus and why this right-turn could mean for the party regarding elections as well as the paths for former members leaving the party.

Conversation with Nassreddin Taibi from Europe Elects about European Politics. We talk about the political reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine as well as how Europe is facing challenges like immigration and climate change.

I talked with Natalie Smith an American based in Chile and co-host of the Superstructure Podcast. We talk about Chilean politics from the social explosion in 2019, Chile under lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Constitutional Convention and the general elections at the end of this year that likely would put the insurgent leftist Gabriel Boric against the far-right José Kast.

My conversation with Alex Bare an International Relations graduate and Fulbright in Colombia to talk about the protests in Colombia. We talk particularly about the role of indigenous people, Afro-Colombian community, feminist activists, the LGBTQ movement as well as student organizations and unions in the massive protests. We talk about the role of the tax reform, the COVID-19 crisis, police brutality, the complexities of the peace process and the proximity of the presidential election are related to the difficulty to end of the protests.

My conversation with the Polish economist Karol Karpinski. We talked about developmental policies in Bangladesh, the role of the English language in international education and football as a global sport.

My conversation with Peruvian journalist Kenneth Sánchez about the presidential election in Peru. We talk briefly about the first round of the election that had an open field with 18 candidates to then center on the second round of the election with Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori in the context of Peru being one hardest hit countries by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conversation with Frank Miroslav a writer at C4SS and The Plausible Possible as well as the host of the podcast All Power to the Imagination. We talk about radical scientists, crypto-currencies and nuclear power.

Conversation with Alex McHugh a writer and coordinator at C4SS. We talk about the intersection of religion and radical politics from Islamophobia being disguised as Secularism, Jewish Anarchism, the relationship between queer identity and spirituality and the possibility of multi-confessional alliances against authoritarianism everywhere. Note: In the moment of conversation when Alex mentions that there are 6 genders referenced in Torah he intended to say that is referenced in the Talmud.

Conversation with Matheus Calderón a cultural critic and curator of Comité de Lectura. We talk about how the protests that bring down the coup in Peru have been influencing political panorama and why protests continue in different parts of the country while also reflecting about the connection between the informal economy and Peruvian identity.

Conversation with Elena McGrath an Assistant Professor of History at Union College. We talk about the rise, fall and rise again of the MAS as well as the role played by Evo Morales and what role could Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca play in the future. We also talk about indigenous resistance, feminist struggles, black market economics and El Alto as a symbol of processes of change in Bolivia.

Conversation with Jesse Walker. He is the books editor at Reason Magazine as well as the author of The United States of Paranoia. We talk about recent conspiracies like QAnon, the boogaloo movement and "anarchist jurisdictions".

Conversation with Cory Massimino a philosophy student and fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. We talk about the effect of Trumpism in the libertarian movement, how libertarians have been dealing with racism, xenophobia, sexism and homophobia, and what lessons could libertarians learn from Latin America.

In this episode I talk with Victoria Martínez. She is a English teacher based on Buenos Aires, Argentina. We talk about Peronism, Posadism, anarchist bakery, feminism, gay liberation and indigenous rights.

Conversation with Alon Levy. They is a Marron Fellow at Marron Institute of Urban Management (New York University) doing research at transportation policy. We talk about Berlin's Hype as a city for creatives compared to other European cities, we deal with the debate on urbanism how terms of YIMBY/NIMBY are getting mainstream while urban policy also shows the complexity of political ideology and finally we talk about immigration and it's positive relationship with society as a broad.

I talk with Anthony Macedo an Angelino Mexican American about the Mexican Economy. We deal with Mexican economic history, regional differences, comparative economies with other Latin American countries and the role of AMLO both in handling the coronavirus pandemic and his role in the future of Mexico.

Conversation with Peruvian journalist and cultural critic Matheus Calderón who currently works at the Comité de Lecture about the causes and effects of higher number of cases of Coronavirus in Peru. We try to understand that role inequality play in the propagation of COVID-19. We try to understand how this pandemic is challenging the economic narrative about Peru. The role that corruption plays in this crisis and limited political response to this complex moment. Also we deal with the particular dimension of how the pandemic has affected some regions more than others.

We talk we with Mila Ghorayeb writer and co-host of the Unacceptable podcast to talk about Canadian culture. The complex relationship of Canada and the United States, the attitudes toward immigration, language policy and the Quebéc's laicité.

My conversation with Ciaran Dold the co-host of the Corner Späeti podcast. We talk about the relationship of anime and geek culture with radical politics. I tell the story of Antifascist Otaku Brigade and then Ciaran explains the complexities of European politics.

My conversation with geneticist Razib Khan. We talk diverse topics like Ancient DNA in China and India, personal genomics also known as the rise of genetic testing, Jewish and Middle Eastern presence in Iberia and Latin America, the influence Spinoza and Crypto-Jewish thought in the origins of modernity, sperm banks in Denmark also known as Viking Babies and the effects on Chinese immigration in Africa.

We talk C Derick Varn co-host of Pop the Left podcast of Zero Books and the Mortal Science podcast of Emancipation Network. We discuss Latin American politics dealing from topic like the Pink Wave, Trotskyism, US-Latin American relations as well as the place for ethnic and cultural conflictcs play into the political conflicts in the region. We pay attention particularly to political economy of the Andean region and that the Inquisition and Crypto-Judaism played an important role in Colonial Latin America and also how some of it's legacies still influence the region today.

My conversation with writer Lucy Steigerwald. We talk about aliens, conspiracies and christmas.

Conversation with Frank Miroslav. We talk about global protests, far right populism, the resurgence of the radical left and the current debates about China.

My conversation with Akiva Malamet. We talk about the dangers of different tendencies of nationalism.

Conversation with Andrés Pertierra a graduate student at the Department of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison about the United States-Cuba relationship and the recent political developments in Cuba.

Conversation with Joshua Tait currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of North Caroline at Chappell Hill. We talk about the past and present of American conservatism particularly about the relationship of conservatives and free market plus how Trump is changing the conservative movement in regard to the growing nationalist tendencies in the American Right.

We talk to Conor Duffy, scientist by day and twitter politics person by night about the 2020 presidential election particularly the Democratic primaries. How issues like immigration, foreign policy and economics are defining this race.

Conversation with Eric Hoover a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. We talk about the controversy over Nepalese students admitted to the University of Texas at Tyler who after receiving a full scholarship this was cancelled which make Eric to travel to Katmandu the capital of Nepal to understand the interest of Nepalese students in studying in the US. In the context of controversies surrounding the admission process in several universities we also deal with challenges that Nepalese students and in general Third World students to get admitted in American college.

Conversation with historian Daniel Bessner who is an Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. We talk about the decline in history majors, the lack of tenure track positions in History deparments and ways to change this.

My conversation with Oscar Winberg who is a PhD Candidate at the History Department of Åbo Akademi University in Finland working on modern American political history and mass media. We talk about studying American history from a Nordic country, the place of Nordic countries in the American imagination, the use of mass media to study politics and recent developments in the historiography of American conservatism.

We talk with political writer Mila Ghorayeb about different topics of Canadian politics like Justin Trudeau, Maxine Bernier, Niki Ashton, far-left, far-right, immigration, multiculturalism and foreign policy.

My conversation with Akiva Malamet. We talk the present of Israel, ethnic minorities, the Israeli-Palestinian-conflict, BDS, LGBT community, ultra-orthodox judaism and anti-semitism.

Conversation with Samuel Hammond director of poverty and welfare policy at the Niskanen Center we talk about relationship of neoliberalism and social trust in issues like taxes, education and housing.

Conversation with Conner Habib host of podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib and public intellectual. We talk about the relationship of science, mysticism and sexuality.

Conversation with historian Mollie Nouwen who teaches at the Liberal Arts Department at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. We talk about the history of Jewish community in Argentina. We deal with topics of immigration, integration, zionism, radical left politics and the future of this community.

Conversation Bryan Caplan professor of Economics at George Mason University and author of The Case Against Education. We talk about the problems about international education, immigration of graduate students, english language as an academic lingua franca and national students in international schools. We look particularly at the cases of Switzerland, Finland and Sweden.

Conversation with Anthony Comegna editor of Intellectual History for the Cato Institute and host of the Liberty Chronicles podcast. We talk about the Loco Foco movement, libertarian history and the ideological dispute for the meaning of libertarianism.

Conversation with Glenn Kranking, Associate Professor of History and Scandinavian Studies at the Gustavus Adolphus College. We talk about the image of Sweden in America, the role of Sweden in the world and the present of Scandinavian Studies.

Conversation with Alex Muresinau Young Voices contributor and Lone Conservative columnist. We talk about how the different conservative factions are dealing with Trump and if Trumpism has a future beyond Trump.

Conversation with Andrew Nestingen which is a Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. We talk about the view of Finlandia in popular imagination particularly on cinema, music and education plus the challenges of being the geopolitical frontier between the United States and Russia.

Conversation with Steven Hirsch the Professor of Practice, International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. We talk about the history of anarchism in Peru how this ideas came here and particular characteristics of this movement in comparison with other anarchist movements in other regions.

Conversation with Benjamin Nobbs-Thiessen, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the Washington State University. We talk about how the Mennonites came to Bolivia and how is relationship with Bolivian society as a whole has been developed.

Conversation with freelance journalist and author Noah Berlatsky. We talk about the curious relationship of race and indie music particularly the issue of whiteness. We deal mostly with the United States and Europe but also a little bit a the Latin American indie music scene.

Conversation with William Irwin Professor of Philosophy at King's College and Series Editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. We talk about the relationship between philosophy and pop culture particularly in context to series of book edited around the subject.

Conversation with Young Voices Advocate and contributor to Market Urbanism Nolan Gray. We talk about malls, YIMBY, housing regulations, gentrification, trailer parks, tiny houses and ways to house the homeless.

Conversation with Mila Ghorayeb a graduate student in Political Theory at McGill University. We talk about the conservative views of communism, the colonial roots of islamophobia and the place of the #MeToo movement in universities.

Conversation with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Affiliate Faculty in International Affairs at University of Colorado Boulder. We talk about his book Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2017) that deals with intersections of music and politics among Swedish ultra-nationalists.

Conversation with Seth Cotlar, Professor of History at Willamette University. We talk about how historians in the US are dealing with Trump, fake news, conservatism and socialism.

Conversation with Samuel Hammond the Poverty and Welfare Analyst at the Niskanen Center about his paper on the free market welfare state on the convergence between big government and market dynamism. We also discuss immigration, healthcare, socialism and neoliberalism.

Conversation with Hilde Rested, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Bjørknes College in Oslo, Norway. We talk about the place of Scandinavia in American politics and then about the place of American politics in Scandinavia.For more about Hilde Restad: https://twitter.com/hilderestadhttps://twitter.com/Ceasefire_pod