What does Beto believe in?

This week we speak with Luke Savage about Beto O’Rourke. Luke Savage is a Staff Writer at Jacobin Magazine. He writes about Canadian and international politics, religion, labor issues, philosophy, and the history of the democratic left. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Canadaland, Maisonneuve, the New Statesman, The Tyee, Current Affairs, and others. He also co-hosts a weekly podcast about current events agitprop cinema.

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If you missed our episode on Biden you can find it here: First as tragedy, then as farce: Joe Biden in 2020?

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A Weekly Correction : May 13 2019

A Weekly Correction : May 13 2019

“There is no document of civilisation that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” -  Walter Benjamin

What we’re reading : 

Surveillance Capitalism and the Changing Landscape of the Modern Economy:

In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff outlines the emergence of technological innovations and market mechanisms which make ubiquitous surveillance increasingly likely, a phenomenon which she calls ‘surveillance capitalism’. As Zuboff describes, extreme concentrations of knowledge and lack of democratic oversight or regulation have given rise in the past two decades to an unprecedented concentration of power among select companies such as Google and Facebook, which she insists will have wide ranging implications in the future on our economy and society.

The ever-expanding border: checkpoints in the Dominican Republic

We talk with Elena Herminia Guzman about the increase in racial profiling of people of Haitian-descent in the Dominican Republic. Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Indigenous Boricua filmmaker, educator, and anthropologist from New York City. Her work broadly looks at issues of representation in the African/Black Diaspora. Her artistic work and research also extend to Haiti and the Dominican Republic where she conducted fieldwork and has a series of visual projects with a focus on narrative performance such as Carnival and the Lenten festivals of Rara. She is a co-founder of Ethnocine Collective, a feminist filmmaking collective that is committed to a feminist and decolonial lens that pushes the boundaries of non-fiction film. 

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Introducing: A Weekly Correction

Introducing: A Weekly Correction

Hello A Correction listeners!

Welcome to the first of our new feature “A Weekly Correction,” a compilation of the things we're reading, listening to and watching each week. Our goal is to round up some of the best and most interesting content from our favorite publications on econ-related subjects, which we hope will serve as a useful platform for all those interested in contemporary issues within political-economy. This weekly feature will be curated by Mila Stieglitz-Courtney, an intern and recent addition to the A Correction team! You can find out more about Mila here.

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Finding Your Calling: Get More Out of College

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.

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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

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.

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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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