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The Politics of Technology w/Joe Costello
Listen now (101 mins) | Evgenia and I talk to Joe Costello about the politics of technology — nuclear energy, the internet, Wall Street, the New Deal…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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The Industrial Revolution Killed Democracy w/Joe Costello
Listen now (87 mins) | Joe Costello returns to the show (and joins us in our attic) to talk about how the industrial revolution killed American…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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"Excessive debt gradually becomes its own tyrant, the past rules exclusively, trampling on the future."
Joe Costello on debt, democracy, and the sad state of our politics.
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Yasha Levine
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Trump and Tariffs and Political Taboos w/Joe Costello
Listen now (119 mins) | We talk to our friend Joe Costello about Trump’s tariffs, democracy, deindustrialization, the Yeltsinification of America, and…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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Joe Costello
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Joe Costello on natural selection and democracy
“Our present culture has little understanding of and even less appreciation for history. History is given no value.”
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Yasha Levine
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Joe Costello on Energy and Democracy
“The greatest organizing force of the Industrial era was fossil fuels. The mass scale burning of fossil fuels resulted in an unprecedented global…
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Yasha Levine
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Joe Costello on democratic politics and the Civil Rights Movement
"Immersed in our degraded political culture today, a person finds it difficult to appreciate only fifty years ago the United States experienced one of…
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Yasha Levine
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Being Pagan with Rhyd Wildermuth
Listen now (128 mins) | Rhyd Wildermuth
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Evgenia
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Yasha Levine
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Listen now (99 mins) | We talk about the new film — How to Blow Up a Pipeline — that was inspired by the Andreas Malm book of the same name.
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Evgenia
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Yasha Levine
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Sunday night read: our debtor oligarchy
With the ridiculous Silicon Valley Bank failure and the instability and frailty of global finance we’ve been getting a glimpse of during the last few…
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Yasha Levine
New Year's Fireside Chat with Mark Ames
Listen now (111 mins) | С Новым Годом!
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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The Russians — Full Episode List
The Russians is a podcast run by Evgenia Kovda and Yasha Levine.
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Evgenia
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Yasha Levine
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