What We’re Listening To
From rat city to the history of inequality: our favorite podcasts of the season
December 15, 2022
In this week’s issue of Public Seminar, we’re taking time to listen to our favorite podcasts from this fall, in a list that guests appearances from William Archila, Brian Callaci, Dahlia Lithwick, David Lay Williams, and—last but certainly not least in number—our constant companions, the rats of New York City.
In Episode 5 of Why Now?, journalist Dahlia Lithwick chats with Claire Potter about the women who led the legal battles against the unjust policies of the Trump administration, Lithwick’s new book, Lady Justice (Penguin Press, 2022), and holding the Supreme Court accountable. (December 12, 2022)
“You are in the process of losing who you were, in the process of becoming somebody else.” In Episode 7 of Multi-Verse, poet William Archila talks to Evangeline Graham about his poem “Northern Triangle Dissected” and the psychological journeys of Central American minors seeking asylum. (December 14, 2022)
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In Unproductive Labor, Episode 16, economist Brian Callaci and political scientist David Lay Williams join Pete Sinnott for a double episode on inflation and inequality. (November 10, 2022)
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As New York City reckons with a new scourge of rats, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil J. Young dedicate Episode 349 of Past Present to a discussion of why some rodents are definitely “not cute”—and why rats are everyone’s problem. (November 1, 2022)