Bench Ansfield on Arson-for-Profit, Insurance Brownlining, and the Bronx

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Dylan Gottlieb on Yuppies, Financialization, and the New Inequality

The year was 1984, "The Year of the Yuppie," according to Newsweek magazine. Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic as revealed in this month's episode featuring our very own Dylan Gottlieb. Gottlieb explains how hundreds of t ...  Show more

Justin Leroy on the Lowest Freedom, Racial Capitalism, and Abolition Democracy

The very dregs. Of the very lowest kind. This is how radical abolitionist David Walker described the freedom accorded Black people in the 19th century. In this month's episode, Justin Leroy explores the economic thought of people like Walker, alongside Maria Stewart, William Apes ...  Show more