Diet Soap #200: The Myth of the Doctor
The guest this week is one of my co-editors at the journal Former People Steven A. Michalkow discusses the myth of Doctor Who. Both of us are fans of the show, both of us were excited about the...
View ArticleDiet Soap Podcast #224: Pop the Imperialism
Imperialism is the subject this week as C Derrick Varn and I bring back Pop the Left and discuss Lenin’s pamphlet “Imperialism: The Highest Form of Capitalism.”This was to be a discussion of the notion...
View ArticleZero Squared #13: Heavy Radicals
Aaron Leonard is the guest this week and we discuss his book Heavy Radicals which was published by Zero Books in February. With the subtile: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists, Aaron Leonard’s...
View ArticleZero Squared #31: Dialectic of Defeat
Russell Jacoby’s Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism is the subject this week and C Derick Varn is the guest. Varn is a poet, teacher, theorist and a reader at Zero Books. This is the...
View ArticleZero Squared #39: Land of Hunger
Please take a moment this week to fill out a very short survey. Zero Books is working on offering a book club and we’d like to get your input. Wayne Holloway is a writer director, working in...
View ArticleZero Squared #59: It’s Not Over
Pete Dolack has been published on a variety of political and literary topics, mostly pertaining to contemporary issues. He has been published multiple times in the peer-reviewed academic journal...
View ArticleSymptomatic Redness: A Critique of Pankaj Mishra’s Age of Anger
The Symptomatic Redness podcast presents conversations on political economy and history. Hosted by C. Derick Varn and Amogh Sahu, the program was an independent project for several years but is now...
View ArticleZero Squared #145: Thaddeus Russell against Rationalism
Thaddeus Russell is a historian, author, and professor. He has taught history, American Studies, and the history of philosophy at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the New School for Social...
View ArticleZero Squared #150: Teen Sex, Poetry, and Endless War
C. Derick Varn is an emerging poet, professional teacher, and arm-chair theorist. He is a member of the Zero Books team. He is also the guest this week as we discuss late 90s ‘zine culture, historical...
View ArticleZero Squared #156: The Revolutions of 1848
Pam Nogales is a PhD History Candidate at New York University, a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society, and a co-host of the Shit Platypus Says podcast, and she stops by the Zero Books podcast this...
View ArticleSymptomatic Redness: Michael Brooks and Derick Varn
This week’s Symptomatic Redness features Michael Brooks and C Derick Varn as they debate and discuss the American radical left under Trump. Should the left turn to the democrats again? If not, what...
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