Recent Audio & Video

Special Four-Part Series for the LRB Podcast: Climate, Politics, and Procreation

My guests and I explore the intersection of climate chaos and reproductive justice. What does it means to pursue reproductive justice in a rapidly warming world? What happens when environmental devastation gets linked population? How have population, procreation and women's bodies been thought of in the past, where are we today, and where might we be headed in the future? Guests include Black activist and feminist scholar Loretta Ross, evolutionary biologist and feminist scholar Banu Subramanian, historian Alison Bashford, and scholar of climate, feminism and activism, Jade Sasser.

Georgetown Global Dialogues: Degrowth as a Response to the Climate Crisis

A conversation with Kohei Saito and David Wallace-Wells. What is the degrowth agenda, and what are its origins and core tenets? Would slowing growth necessitate a far-reaching transformation of the global capitalist system? How might such a transformation look in practice—and what are the viable alternatives? 

This event was part of the Georgetown Global Dialogues, which featured leading intellectuals from the Global South in forward-looking conversations with U.S.-based thinkers across a range of topics.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: Reimagining The Nation Post-Pandemic

For Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Michael Rubens interviews Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robert Reich, Meehan Crist, and Nikole Hannah-Jones to find out if we could actually come out of the COVID-19 crisis as better and stronger nation than before.

(Spoiler: we absolutely could have, but we didn't, really… )