Weekend Listen
The latest podcast episodes at Public Seminar unpack the history of wage labor and the future of Biden’s Build Back Better spending package
How Did We Get Here?
From John Maynard Keynes to seventeenth-century England to Virgil’s Georgics, the latest episode of the Unproductive Labor podcast examines the origins of wage labor.
Where Are We Going?
The Biden administration’s proposed “Build Back Better” act contains some potentially transformative legislation. The Past Present podcast team discusses the bill’s focus on working families, wrangling with Republicans, and how Biden measures up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.