Doug Henwood's Blog, page 3

NYC fiscal crisis: canonizing Felix once again

I’ve got a review on The Nation‘s site of a new documentary on the NYC fiscal crisis, co-directed and -produced by Michael Rohatyn, son of the chief imposer of austerity 50 years ago, Felix Rohatyn. It was one of the opening battles of the class war from above, and the role of liberals like Felix in engineering it should never be forgotten.

Fresh audio product: Israel’s war on Iran

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June 19, 2025 Two perspectives on Israel’s war on Iran: Mouin Rabbani on the regional/global context and Joel Schalit on Israeli society and politics

Fresh audio product: The rise of BYD, Marx in America

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June 12, 2025 Paolo Gerbaudo on the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s rise (articles here and here) • Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in America, on the bearded one’s reception in the US

Fresh audio product: war & industry, China overtaking the US

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June 5, 2025 Laleh Khalili, author of this review, on the long relationship between the US military and industry • Kyle Chan, author of this article, on how China is surpassing the US

Fresh audio product: capitalism and its critics • abundance, neoliberal and genuine

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May 29, 2025 John Cassidy, author of Capitalism and Its Critics, on just that • Sandeep Vaheesan, author of this review, on abundance—neoliberal vs. genuine

Fresh audio product: Israel, Gaza, and Trump

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May 22, 2025 Mouin Rabbani on Israeli politics, the fate of the Palestinians, and Trump’s fundraising tour of the Middle East • Meron Rapoport, co-author of this article, on Israel’s strategy of destruction in Gaza

Fresh audio product: the dollar • why is the US always at war?

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May 15, 2025 Barry Eichengreen on why the gyrations in the value of the US dollar matter • Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan, hosts of Always at War, on why the US is always buying more weapons and bombing people

Fresh audio product: Canadian politics, elite theory

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May 8, 2025 Jeet Heer on Canadian politics and the recent election • Natasha Piano, author of Democratic Elitism, on Italian elite theory

Fresh audio product: the US empire and the state of the global working class; things need to be bigger

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May 1, 2025 Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental, on the state of the US empire and the state of the global working class • Becca Rothfeld, author of All Things Are Too Small, speaks up for bigness

Fresh audio product: Trump, a Constitutional product

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April 24, 2025 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind, on how the system crafted by the US Constitution, led to Donald Trump and has constricted our ability fight him