Coming From Left Field (Audio)

News & Politics Podcasts

Welcome to Coming From Left Field, a conversation about politics, books, and current events.

Episodes

“Illinois Coal Country: Immigrants, Unions & the Fight for Justice” with Jackie Dana

“Chomsky and Me: A Memoir” with Bev Boisseau Stohl

“Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund” with Molly Crabapple

“Getting Shot At: Essays on War, Conflict & Culture Clash” with Bill Ehrhart

“"When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class" with Chris Smalls

“Capitalism: A Global History" with Sven Beckert

“The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own" with Les Leopold

“The Yellow Vests and The Battle for Democracy” with Ida Susser

“Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times” with John K. Roth

“Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage” with Heather Ann Thompson

"Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" with Gabriel Rockhill

"Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States“ with J. Albert Mann

- "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" with Caroline Fraser

"Fighting Oligarchy" with Charles Derber

"Square UP: Building Labor's Power in the Gilded Age" with Lorri Nandrea, Tony Pecinosky and special guest Chris Townsend

“Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980” with Nicholas Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever

“Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music” with Toby Manning

Simplifying Socialism: Reclaiming Marxism with A.J. Horn

“Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2026” with Andy Lee Roth

“Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News” with Alec Karakatsanis