Hit or miss episodes. The episodes hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher recently are the best, with researchers who apply pretty diverse methodologies to building our understanding of history of labor, science / philosophy, finance, and institutions under capitalism and imperialism. Other episodes are wild, typical virtue-signaling masturbatory culture-war-fetishizing types of content that don’t seem to understand what capitalism is or that we operate within it. Gotta pick the ones worth listening to.

I used to listen to this podcast regularly, but I will no longer be doing so. The episode with genocide apologist Susie Linfield was offensive, racist, unserious and smug. The usual Zionist qualities. Susie poses as a leftist, but is anything but. She attacks the real left in patronizing fashion, without any substantive critique of her own, positioning herself as an expert in the Middle East and “Terrorism” while ignoring or dismissing the real experts in the field. The host coddles her racism and unprofessionalism the whole time. Truly nauseating. I will no longer be recommending or listening to this podcast.

I really appreciate the work of this podcast on exploring topics from the academic perspective in areas of philosophy, political science, sociology and many areas usually underexplored in an intelectual way. One fascinating topic in many episodes of the podcast is the understanding of colonialist ideologies in western societies and what many people are doing to create a more equal and fair society. The work of these researches is amazing.

I’m thankful for these young, inspired, articulate people, sharing ideas to improve our world

Some of these interviews were conducted by peers who have great insight into the subjects discussed. Others sound like an undergraduate intern doing the interview. At least there’s great breadth in topics covered.

This series is full of racism, intolerance, people generalizing their own anecdotes across whole peoples and societies, narcissistic delusions and oppression olympics.

brit all the episodes are amazing and spectacular but your conversation with michael d snediker left me wanting more! spin-off joint podcast that is yall smoking weed and talking about chronic pain? in struggle, RAF

Did I hear this incorrectly, or is GS actually sponsoring this podcast? That’s like if the Israeli State began sponsoring a Hamas podcast.

This review is specifically in reference to the episode featuring Michael Rechtenwald and his book “Beyond Woke,” which I found to be a deeply frustrating and unhelpful discussion of an otherwise important topic. Both the guest and - perhaps more egregiously - the interviewer show little awareness of, and engagement with, the actual intellectual and theoretical foundations of what they derisively refer to as “identity politics.” That those who have been creating this easily accessible and voluminous body of work are largely BIPOC thinkers is no accident. Their ignorance of these thinkers shifts their outrage into the register of self-righteousness and reveals the white victimhood that forms the true kernel of the guest’s project. What a bummer.

Thank you Critical Theory. To be able to see as clearly and confidently through such mountains of falsification, intimidation, and mind manipulation requires a powerful mind and free and valiant spirit . Blumenthal’s books raise the issues and reveal the truths that everyone tries to ignore either out of cowardice, callous indifference or mere ignorance.

Not a fair title for these pods if you’re going to let one or two ethnic groups dominate. Just a fan of truth in advertising.

Each show is an interview into the scholar's/scholars' manuscript. By amplifying the author's voice, each text is given a larger footprint in an environment which at times seems at antipodes. Marxist, new left, on marginilization and the state. Support the network.

Dave O’Brien is an efficient and effective interviewer, no fluff, right to the point. He chooses smart academics who have a leftist perspective. It’s true, the sound is not good — sometimes very bad — NBN is very kitchen-sink (donate!). Still very much worth a listen.

I feel conflicted because these interviews are great, but it sounds like they were recorded in the bottom of a metal bucket.

Good content. Absurdly poor audio quality. Consider learning how to record audio. Your audio production is so terrible it's absolutely hilarious. You should just hire me and I'll 100% guarantee that your audio will 100% better. These kinds of talks about these subjects requires that each word is heard clearly.