We talk with Tom Perrin about how to find meaning in college through “vocational education.” Tom Perrin is Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost at Huntingdon College. His book, The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction, was published in 2015, and his work has also appeared in American Literature, NOVEL, and the Times Literary Supplement.
On A New Militant Mexican Labor Movement
We speak with LAUREN KAORI GURLEY about the strikes in Matamoros. Since January, 50,000 workers have gone off the job and the prospects for the labor movement are the best in a generation. We talk about what has led to this moment and what we might expect going forward. Lauren Kaori Gurley is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. She previously served as web editor at the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). Her reporting on labor, immigration, poverty, and the U.S.-Mexico border has been published in CityLab, In These Times, NPR's Latino USA, The American Prospect, and ProPublica.
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Who's Afraid of Ilhan Omar?
We speak with Lyle Jeremy Rubin about AIPAC, empire, and Ilhan Omar. In the early 2000s, Lyle Jeremy Rubin was an intern at AIPAC and was on the board as a campus representative. He is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Rochester and is writing his dissertation on the reception of the political economist Adam Smith’s thought in the United States.
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The Shock Doctrine in Barbuda
We speak with Rebecca Boger about Disaster Capitalism in Barbuda. Professor Boger has a background in geospatial technologies, marine science, and science education. At Brooklyn College, she teaches geospatial technologies and works with anthropologists and archaeologists in Barbuda on socio-ecological resilience research, community based mapping, and environmental modeling.
Satellite images of Antigua and Barbuda from August 21, 2017, and September 8, 2017, illustrating the damage caused by Hurricane Irma to Barbuda
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Spring Break Reading List
We thought it might be fun to put together a Spring Break reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our nightstands now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them! Feel free to write in with suggestions for Summer Break.
Non-fiction
The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Reappraisals by Tony Judt
Fiction
Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
All That Man Is by David Szalay
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
On Settler Colonialism
We talk with Gerald Horne about his book, “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean.” Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry.
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Making Sense of the DSA
We talk with Dan La Botz about the state of the Democratic Socialists of America two years after the “Bernie Bump.” Dan La Botz is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico.
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To what extent does U.S. prosperity depend on exploitation?
We called Arthur MacEwan to find out the answer. Professor MacEwan taught at UMass Boston from 1975 to 2008 and is now professor emeritus in the Department of Economics. His range of courses included those on economic development, macroeconomics, the economics of education, Latin America, economic history and Marxist economics.
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How the Swedes Do It
We talk with Monica Prasad about taxes in Sweden. Sweden has lower poverty rates, less inequality and higher mobility than the U.S. How do they do it? The answer is not what you expect. Monica Prasad is a professor of sociology and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and is the author, most recently, of “Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution.”
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The Causes and Implications of Regional Economic Disparities
We speak with Gerald Friedman about the growing economic gap between the poorer states in the U.S. and the wealthier coastal regions. Gerald Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Professor Friedman has research interests in the areas of economic history, specifically 19th- and 20th-century France and the US; political economies; and the economics of healthcare. He has drafted financing plans for single-payer healthcare systems, and has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals.
